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Page 1: VA-Vol-28-No-6-June-2000

JUNE 2000

The Magazine of the EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

STRAIGHT AND LEVEL

2 VAA NEWS

4 THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER

MARKER Dutch Redfield

8 MYSTERY PLANEH G Frautschy

10 VARIABLE PITCH PROPSJim Reddig

11 VINTAGE GATHERING - SUN N FUN 20001

H G Frautschy

22 GEE BEE WINGIHG Frautschy

24 PASS IT TO BUCKlEE Buck Hilbert

27 CALENDAR

28 CLASSIFIEDS

29 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

wwwvintageaircraftorg

Publisher TOM POBEREZNY

Editor-ill-Chief scon SPANGLER

Executive Director Editor HENRY G FRAUTSCHY

Executive Editor MIKE DIFRISCO

COlltributing Editor JOHN UNDERWOOD BUDD DAVISSON

Art Director BETH BLANCK

Photography Staff JIM KOEPNICK LEEANN ABRAMS MARK SCHAIBLE

AdvertisingEditorial Assistallt ISABELLE WISKE

II

SEE PAGE 32 FOR FURTHER VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INFORMATION

LEV by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE

PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

In this months Vintage Airplane you will find inforshymation regarding the Officers and Directors of your association who are running for election Once elected theyll serve a two year term It has been my pleasure to know these individuals personally as we all work to furshyther the goals of the Vintage Aircraft Association Please take a moment to review their biographies and take the time to send in your ballot

Speaking of their dedication the weekend of May 19th was the work weekend at the vintage area on the EAA AirshyVenture grounds I had hoped to be able to attend this gathering but mother nature had other plans As many of you know springtime often results is rather strong weather and the vigorous fronts that have been moving from west to east have not been kind to the country When I fly from my home here in No rth Caro lina to Oshkosh my flight takes me across Charleston West Virshyginia to just South of Columbus and Dayton Ohio just north of Fort Wayne Indiana then across Benton Harbor Michigan From there its time to cross Lake Michigan to the Brave Intersection with a turn to head direct to Oshkosh A no-wind flight plan sh ows the flight is 3 hours 25 minutes with a distance of 665 nautical miles The Baron (a B-55) gives me an honest 190 to 195 knots and on a trip of this distance my fuel burn is generally 24 gallons per hour

While planning my trip to the VAA work weekend I kept reviewing the weather There was a strong front layshying across the Ohio Valley just northwest of West Virginia stretching from the all the way back to Kansas There was a narrow somewhat clear area in the front over in Kenshytucky but the weather was predicted to drift south over the weekend and there as also convective weather moving in from the Texas area It sure look ornery so I hung up the keys and chose to stay home Nuts

I really didn t want to cross the mountains whi le they are shrouded by clouds We did get hammered by some strong storms on Saturday night I felt I made the right deshycision not to challenge the weather but I sure missed being in Oshkosh There were a number of your fellow members V AA directors and VAA officers who did show up for this gathering Take a look at the photos on page 3 for more on the activities

Directors sometimes will go out of their way to get one thing done Bob Lumley related one such incident to me after the weekend Direc tor Gene Morris who lives in Roanoke Texas showed up in his 0-35 Beech with a reshyplacement wind sock to be installed on the roof of the Red Barn He and HG put in a new light bulb in the frame and installed the wind sock Gene had more commitments back at hi s sons house in Illinois so he got back in his Beech and departed Thanks Gene Thanks to all who participated in the VAA Work Weekend - well see you next year By the way Gene hows that new engine overshyhaul running

I have been distracted from the instrument panel proshyject on my Luscombe You know the tal e - we are installing a new front porch on the house and of course as with anything to do with working on a house it has turned into a major project

The Luscombe flies just great with the old panel anyshyway so we have been having fun just going around to some good local fly-ins and chapter meetings I have reshyceived a good number of positive comments by members concerning the articles in Vintage Airplane They feel they are more lion target with good needed information In order to continue to provide you the member with this type of information we continue to need your input My thanks to you all regarding the technical articles in particshyular - were working to ensure we have an even greater amount of technical material and welcome your correcshytions and comments

Theres going to be plenty of things to do in the Vinshytage Aircraft Association area during EAA AirVenture The Type Club ten t workshops the VAA picnic on Sunday night will all just be a fraction of the educational and recreational aspects of coming to EAA AirVenture Not only that but you get to visit with so many of your aviashytion friends For up-to-date information on this years Convention point your web browser towards wwwairshyventureorg Theres lots to see

If you havent had a chance to ask someone to join us please feel free to invite them to sign up in the Vintage Aircraft Association Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better together Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

VAA ELECTIONS Elsewhere in this issue of Vintage

Airplane youll find the ballot for this years V AA Elections which will be ratified during the annual business meeting held during EAA AirVenshyture If youre interested in attending in person please see the top of the biographies on the ballot for the date and location of the Vintage Aircraft Association meetshying Immediately following the VAA meeting the EAA annual meetshying will be convened

Pursuant to EAA bylaws the anshynual business meeting and elections for the Experimental Aircraft Associshyation (EAA) will be held at the Theater in the Woods at 930 am CDT on Monday July 31 2000 at Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin during EAA AirVenture 2000 to be held July 26 through Aushygust 1 2000

T H E C OVE R S

FRONT COVER With its LeRhone rotary engine blatting away Gene DeMarco pilots the Old Rhinebeck Aerodromes Sopwith Camel replica while David King lurks behind him as the Black Baron in the famous Fokker Triplane

EM photo by Mark Schaible shot with a Canon EOS1 n equipped with an 80-220 mm lens on 100 ASA Fuji Provia slide film EM Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER Just east of Lakeland Florida is the town of Winter Haven home to Jack Browns Seaplane Base Each year durshying the annual Sun n Fun EM Fly-In a few of the Piper Cubs used at Browns can be found on Lake Parker taking part in the popshyular Splash-In Instructor Brian Meadley taxis in with one of the Cubs Originally from the United Kingdom Brian now splits his time between Europe and the United States EM photo by Mark Schaible

2 JUNE 2000

EAA CALENDARS EAAs popular World of Flight calshy

endars which showcase some of the worlds finest aviation photography are now better than ever with the addition of a second calendar focusshying on the fascinating world of ultralight flight

People who enjoy the world of flight can choose from either of the spectacular 2001 calendars - the renowned World ofFlight 2001 or EAAs Ultralight and Light Plane 2001 Previous EAA calendars have won numerous national awards for deshysign and photography

Both 2001 EAA calendars include large color aircraft images sui table for framing background and technishycal information on the featured aircraft as well as colorful areas notshying upcoming dates of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and other mashyjor EAA fly-ins Within the calendars 12-by-24 inch format are large day boxes for writing in apshypointments and other important events along with a large notes area

The 2001 EAA calendars the 15th in a series that began in 1987 features work by EAAs world-class aviation photographers and addishytional photos provided by EAA volunteer photographers Each 2001 EAA calendar is $1099 (plus shipping and handling) They are

available through EAA by calling 800-843-3612 or through EAAs World Wide Web site (wwweaaorg) EAA Chapters are invited to order bulk quantities of the calendar specially personalized with the Chapters name and other information

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING

One of our most popular columns in Vintage Airplane has been What Our Members Are Restoring Memshybers like Carl Carr of Rockford Ohio send us photos of their recent restorations for publication and all of us can enjoy seeing the variety of airplanes that continue to come out of individual and professional shops all over the world

If youd like to see your airplane featured in this column please send photographs of them to

What Our Members Are Restoring Vintage Airplane Magazine PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Slides or prints are okay all we ask is that they be properly exposed and in focus The quality of prints

-continued on page 25

Carl E Carrs (EAA 8020 VAA 23418) Ranger-powered Fairchild 24 NC18695 was built in 1939 and was orig inally purchased new by movie stars Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford Carl keeps the airplane near his home in Rockford Ohio

VAAWork Weekend

ACAVU day acres and acres of freshly cut grass and groves of oak trees served as the backdrop of one of the most pleasant Vinshytage Work Weekends on record

Volunteers from our Convention Chairmen VAA officers and the membership at large came to VAA Headquarters in Oshkosh to spruce up the place and build four covered stands to protect our f1ightshyline personnel from the sun and other weather factors Beginning the clean up of the Red Barn was part of the process too

Phil Blake Randy Hytry and Ed DeBolt walked the length and breadth of the site installing permashynent row markers after the VAA parking area was surveyed and staked out Gene Morris zipped up from Popular Grove Illinois to install a new windshysock on top of VAA Headquarters Other weekend volunteers were

John Berndt Tim and Joanne Fox Clair Dahl Bob Lumley Bob Brauer Dale Gustafson Dick Mouldenhauer Georgia Schneider Geoff Robison Wes Schmid Steve Nesse Gayle Gruendler and Marlene Griffith

It was a beautiful day and with great folks workshying together we had plenty of fun to boot WeII keep you posted when the next weekend will take place Newcomers are always welcome - dont worry well find something for you to do

John Berndt and Clair Dahl construct and then add the roof trusses to the top on one of the four VAA safety shacks built over the weekend

Framing up the stands (from left to right) are Bob Lumley Dick Mouldenhauer Wes Schmid and Clair Dahl

Pork chops Bob Lumleys special beans and plenty of potato salad was served up at dinnertime for VAA work party volunteers and members of EAA Chapter 272 from Duluth Minnesota who were also volunteering on the AirVenture grounds the same weekend

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

bull bull lIve ears

ott Outer Marker

Training the Clipper Crews

In 1955 it became known in govshyernment circles that the Prime Minister of Thailand was deshysirous of making a flight around

the world President Eisenhower quickly came through graciously offering him the use of his personal airplane the Columbine a beautiful plush Lockheed Constellation Lshy749 and a fully qualified Air Force crew to fly it The Prime Minister gratefully accepted the offer proshyvided however that a Pan American crew operate it For the flight Pan Americans Page Smith was assigned as captain Charlie Matthews as first officer while John

Punz was to man the Constellashytions flight engineers station

The airplane hangared at Washshyington was to be picked up and ferried to New York in preparation for the round-the-world departure and so that the involved airmens records would be current I was sent to Washington along with the crew to conduct a fresh flight check for each of the pilots during the return trip to New York

In civilian clothes and carrying typically battered airline flight bags we hopped Eastern Airlines down to Washington then took a taxi to Anshydrews Air Force Base where we

knocked at the gate announcing to a very unbelieving guard that we were there to pick up President Eisenshyhowers airplane For the next many minutes there was an awful lot of telephoning raised eyebrows and off-in-the-corner whispering as we gradually worked our way from one office to another then finally into the hangar itself

On the spotless hangar floor in front of the airplane it took more exshyplaining by many people to those directly charged with the care and protection of this beautiful machine that they were indeed to release it to us Finally with a resigned shrug the

by Holland Dutch Redfield

4 JUNE 2000

hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

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SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

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STRAIGHT AND LEVEL

2 VAA NEWS

4 THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER

MARKER Dutch Redfield

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In this months Vintage Airplane you will find inforshymation regarding the Officers and Directors of your association who are running for election Once elected theyll serve a two year term It has been my pleasure to know these individuals personally as we all work to furshyther the goals of the Vintage Aircraft Association Please take a moment to review their biographies and take the time to send in your ballot

Speaking of their dedication the weekend of May 19th was the work weekend at the vintage area on the EAA AirshyVenture grounds I had hoped to be able to attend this gathering but mother nature had other plans As many of you know springtime often results is rather strong weather and the vigorous fronts that have been moving from west to east have not been kind to the country When I fly from my home here in No rth Caro lina to Oshkosh my flight takes me across Charleston West Virshyginia to just South of Columbus and Dayton Ohio just north of Fort Wayne Indiana then across Benton Harbor Michigan From there its time to cross Lake Michigan to the Brave Intersection with a turn to head direct to Oshkosh A no-wind flight plan sh ows the flight is 3 hours 25 minutes with a distance of 665 nautical miles The Baron (a B-55) gives me an honest 190 to 195 knots and on a trip of this distance my fuel burn is generally 24 gallons per hour

While planning my trip to the VAA work weekend I kept reviewing the weather There was a strong front layshying across the Ohio Valley just northwest of West Virginia stretching from the all the way back to Kansas There was a narrow somewhat clear area in the front over in Kenshytucky but the weather was predicted to drift south over the weekend and there as also convective weather moving in from the Texas area It sure look ornery so I hung up the keys and chose to stay home Nuts

I really didn t want to cross the mountains whi le they are shrouded by clouds We did get hammered by some strong storms on Saturday night I felt I made the right deshycision not to challenge the weather but I sure missed being in Oshkosh There were a number of your fellow members V AA directors and VAA officers who did show up for this gathering Take a look at the photos on page 3 for more on the activities

Directors sometimes will go out of their way to get one thing done Bob Lumley related one such incident to me after the weekend Direc tor Gene Morris who lives in Roanoke Texas showed up in his 0-35 Beech with a reshyplacement wind sock to be installed on the roof of the Red Barn He and HG put in a new light bulb in the frame and installed the wind sock Gene had more commitments back at hi s sons house in Illinois so he got back in his Beech and departed Thanks Gene Thanks to all who participated in the VAA Work Weekend - well see you next year By the way Gene hows that new engine overshyhaul running

I have been distracted from the instrument panel proshyject on my Luscombe You know the tal e - we are installing a new front porch on the house and of course as with anything to do with working on a house it has turned into a major project

The Luscombe flies just great with the old panel anyshyway so we have been having fun just going around to some good local fly-ins and chapter meetings I have reshyceived a good number of positive comments by members concerning the articles in Vintage Airplane They feel they are more lion target with good needed information In order to continue to provide you the member with this type of information we continue to need your input My thanks to you all regarding the technical articles in particshyular - were working to ensure we have an even greater amount of technical material and welcome your correcshytions and comments

Theres going to be plenty of things to do in the Vinshytage Aircraft Association area during EAA AirVenture The Type Club ten t workshops the VAA picnic on Sunday night will all just be a fraction of the educational and recreational aspects of coming to EAA AirVenture Not only that but you get to visit with so many of your aviashytion friends For up-to-date information on this years Convention point your web browser towards wwwairshyventureorg Theres lots to see

If you havent had a chance to ask someone to join us please feel free to invite them to sign up in the Vintage Aircraft Association Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better together Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

VAA ELECTIONS Elsewhere in this issue of Vintage

Airplane youll find the ballot for this years V AA Elections which will be ratified during the annual business meeting held during EAA AirVenshyture If youre interested in attending in person please see the top of the biographies on the ballot for the date and location of the Vintage Aircraft Association meetshying Immediately following the VAA meeting the EAA annual meetshying will be convened

Pursuant to EAA bylaws the anshynual business meeting and elections for the Experimental Aircraft Associshyation (EAA) will be held at the Theater in the Woods at 930 am CDT on Monday July 31 2000 at Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin during EAA AirVenture 2000 to be held July 26 through Aushygust 1 2000

T H E C OVE R S

FRONT COVER With its LeRhone rotary engine blatting away Gene DeMarco pilots the Old Rhinebeck Aerodromes Sopwith Camel replica while David King lurks behind him as the Black Baron in the famous Fokker Triplane

EM photo by Mark Schaible shot with a Canon EOS1 n equipped with an 80-220 mm lens on 100 ASA Fuji Provia slide film EM Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER Just east of Lakeland Florida is the town of Winter Haven home to Jack Browns Seaplane Base Each year durshying the annual Sun n Fun EM Fly-In a few of the Piper Cubs used at Browns can be found on Lake Parker taking part in the popshyular Splash-In Instructor Brian Meadley taxis in with one of the Cubs Originally from the United Kingdom Brian now splits his time between Europe and the United States EM photo by Mark Schaible

2 JUNE 2000

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People who enjoy the world of flight can choose from either of the spectacular 2001 calendars - the renowned World ofFlight 2001 or EAAs Ultralight and Light Plane 2001 Previous EAA calendars have won numerous national awards for deshysign and photography

Both 2001 EAA calendars include large color aircraft images sui table for framing background and technishycal information on the featured aircraft as well as colorful areas notshying upcoming dates of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and other mashyjor EAA fly-ins Within the calendars 12-by-24 inch format are large day boxes for writing in apshypointments and other important events along with a large notes area

The 2001 EAA calendars the 15th in a series that began in 1987 features work by EAAs world-class aviation photographers and addishytional photos provided by EAA volunteer photographers Each 2001 EAA calendar is $1099 (plus shipping and handling) They are

available through EAA by calling 800-843-3612 or through EAAs World Wide Web site (wwweaaorg) EAA Chapters are invited to order bulk quantities of the calendar specially personalized with the Chapters name and other information

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING

One of our most popular columns in Vintage Airplane has been What Our Members Are Restoring Memshybers like Carl Carr of Rockford Ohio send us photos of their recent restorations for publication and all of us can enjoy seeing the variety of airplanes that continue to come out of individual and professional shops all over the world

If youd like to see your airplane featured in this column please send photographs of them to

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Slides or prints are okay all we ask is that they be properly exposed and in focus The quality of prints

-continued on page 25

Carl E Carrs (EAA 8020 VAA 23418) Ranger-powered Fairchild 24 NC18695 was built in 1939 and was orig inally purchased new by movie stars Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford Carl keeps the airplane near his home in Rockford Ohio

VAAWork Weekend

ACAVU day acres and acres of freshly cut grass and groves of oak trees served as the backdrop of one of the most pleasant Vinshytage Work Weekends on record

Volunteers from our Convention Chairmen VAA officers and the membership at large came to VAA Headquarters in Oshkosh to spruce up the place and build four covered stands to protect our f1ightshyline personnel from the sun and other weather factors Beginning the clean up of the Red Barn was part of the process too

Phil Blake Randy Hytry and Ed DeBolt walked the length and breadth of the site installing permashynent row markers after the VAA parking area was surveyed and staked out Gene Morris zipped up from Popular Grove Illinois to install a new windshysock on top of VAA Headquarters Other weekend volunteers were

John Berndt Tim and Joanne Fox Clair Dahl Bob Lumley Bob Brauer Dale Gustafson Dick Mouldenhauer Georgia Schneider Geoff Robison Wes Schmid Steve Nesse Gayle Gruendler and Marlene Griffith

It was a beautiful day and with great folks workshying together we had plenty of fun to boot WeII keep you posted when the next weekend will take place Newcomers are always welcome - dont worry well find something for you to do

John Berndt and Clair Dahl construct and then add the roof trusses to the top on one of the four VAA safety shacks built over the weekend

Framing up the stands (from left to right) are Bob Lumley Dick Mouldenhauer Wes Schmid and Clair Dahl

Pork chops Bob Lumleys special beans and plenty of potato salad was served up at dinnertime for VAA work party volunteers and members of EAA Chapter 272 from Duluth Minnesota who were also volunteering on the AirVenture grounds the same weekend

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

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Training the Clipper Crews

In 1955 it became known in govshyernment circles that the Prime Minister of Thailand was deshysirous of making a flight around

the world President Eisenhower quickly came through graciously offering him the use of his personal airplane the Columbine a beautiful plush Lockheed Constellation Lshy749 and a fully qualified Air Force crew to fly it The Prime Minister gratefully accepted the offer proshyvided however that a Pan American crew operate it For the flight Pan Americans Page Smith was assigned as captain Charlie Matthews as first officer while John

Punz was to man the Constellashytions flight engineers station

The airplane hangared at Washshyington was to be picked up and ferried to New York in preparation for the round-the-world departure and so that the involved airmens records would be current I was sent to Washington along with the crew to conduct a fresh flight check for each of the pilots during the return trip to New York

In civilian clothes and carrying typically battered airline flight bags we hopped Eastern Airlines down to Washington then took a taxi to Anshydrews Air Force Base where we

knocked at the gate announcing to a very unbelieving guard that we were there to pick up President Eisenshyhowers airplane For the next many minutes there was an awful lot of telephoning raised eyebrows and off-in-the-corner whispering as we gradually worked our way from one office to another then finally into the hangar itself

On the spotless hangar floor in front of the airplane it took more exshyplaining by many people to those directly charged with the care and protection of this beautiful machine that they were indeed to release it to us Finally with a resigned shrug the

by Holland Dutch Redfield

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hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

6 JUNE 2000

the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

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Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

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Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

By H G Frautschy 22 JUNE 2000

Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

with the methods of creating quick (minutes not days) synshythetic gypsum molds along with Quartering Right Quartering Left

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LEV by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE

PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

In this months Vintage Airplane you will find inforshymation regarding the Officers and Directors of your association who are running for election Once elected theyll serve a two year term It has been my pleasure to know these individuals personally as we all work to furshyther the goals of the Vintage Aircraft Association Please take a moment to review their biographies and take the time to send in your ballot

Speaking of their dedication the weekend of May 19th was the work weekend at the vintage area on the EAA AirshyVenture grounds I had hoped to be able to attend this gathering but mother nature had other plans As many of you know springtime often results is rather strong weather and the vigorous fronts that have been moving from west to east have not been kind to the country When I fly from my home here in No rth Caro lina to Oshkosh my flight takes me across Charleston West Virshyginia to just South of Columbus and Dayton Ohio just north of Fort Wayne Indiana then across Benton Harbor Michigan From there its time to cross Lake Michigan to the Brave Intersection with a turn to head direct to Oshkosh A no-wind flight plan sh ows the flight is 3 hours 25 minutes with a distance of 665 nautical miles The Baron (a B-55) gives me an honest 190 to 195 knots and on a trip of this distance my fuel burn is generally 24 gallons per hour

While planning my trip to the VAA work weekend I kept reviewing the weather There was a strong front layshying across the Ohio Valley just northwest of West Virginia stretching from the all the way back to Kansas There was a narrow somewhat clear area in the front over in Kenshytucky but the weather was predicted to drift south over the weekend and there as also convective weather moving in from the Texas area It sure look ornery so I hung up the keys and chose to stay home Nuts

I really didn t want to cross the mountains whi le they are shrouded by clouds We did get hammered by some strong storms on Saturday night I felt I made the right deshycision not to challenge the weather but I sure missed being in Oshkosh There were a number of your fellow members V AA directors and VAA officers who did show up for this gathering Take a look at the photos on page 3 for more on the activities

Directors sometimes will go out of their way to get one thing done Bob Lumley related one such incident to me after the weekend Direc tor Gene Morris who lives in Roanoke Texas showed up in his 0-35 Beech with a reshyplacement wind sock to be installed on the roof of the Red Barn He and HG put in a new light bulb in the frame and installed the wind sock Gene had more commitments back at hi s sons house in Illinois so he got back in his Beech and departed Thanks Gene Thanks to all who participated in the VAA Work Weekend - well see you next year By the way Gene hows that new engine overshyhaul running

I have been distracted from the instrument panel proshyject on my Luscombe You know the tal e - we are installing a new front porch on the house and of course as with anything to do with working on a house it has turned into a major project

The Luscombe flies just great with the old panel anyshyway so we have been having fun just going around to some good local fly-ins and chapter meetings I have reshyceived a good number of positive comments by members concerning the articles in Vintage Airplane They feel they are more lion target with good needed information In order to continue to provide you the member with this type of information we continue to need your input My thanks to you all regarding the technical articles in particshyular - were working to ensure we have an even greater amount of technical material and welcome your correcshytions and comments

Theres going to be plenty of things to do in the Vinshytage Aircraft Association area during EAA AirVenture The Type Club ten t workshops the VAA picnic on Sunday night will all just be a fraction of the educational and recreational aspects of coming to EAA AirVenture Not only that but you get to visit with so many of your aviashytion friends For up-to-date information on this years Convention point your web browser towards wwwairshyventureorg Theres lots to see

If you havent had a chance to ask someone to join us please feel free to invite them to sign up in the Vintage Aircraft Association Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better together Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

VAA ELECTIONS Elsewhere in this issue of Vintage

Airplane youll find the ballot for this years V AA Elections which will be ratified during the annual business meeting held during EAA AirVenshyture If youre interested in attending in person please see the top of the biographies on the ballot for the date and location of the Vintage Aircraft Association meetshying Immediately following the VAA meeting the EAA annual meetshying will be convened

Pursuant to EAA bylaws the anshynual business meeting and elections for the Experimental Aircraft Associshyation (EAA) will be held at the Theater in the Woods at 930 am CDT on Monday July 31 2000 at Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin during EAA AirVenture 2000 to be held July 26 through Aushygust 1 2000

T H E C OVE R S

FRONT COVER With its LeRhone rotary engine blatting away Gene DeMarco pilots the Old Rhinebeck Aerodromes Sopwith Camel replica while David King lurks behind him as the Black Baron in the famous Fokker Triplane

EM photo by Mark Schaible shot with a Canon EOS1 n equipped with an 80-220 mm lens on 100 ASA Fuji Provia slide film EM Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER Just east of Lakeland Florida is the town of Winter Haven home to Jack Browns Seaplane Base Each year durshying the annual Sun n Fun EM Fly-In a few of the Piper Cubs used at Browns can be found on Lake Parker taking part in the popshyular Splash-In Instructor Brian Meadley taxis in with one of the Cubs Originally from the United Kingdom Brian now splits his time between Europe and the United States EM photo by Mark Schaible

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EAA CALENDARS EAAs popular World of Flight calshy

endars which showcase some of the worlds finest aviation photography are now better than ever with the addition of a second calendar focusshying on the fascinating world of ultralight flight

People who enjoy the world of flight can choose from either of the spectacular 2001 calendars - the renowned World ofFlight 2001 or EAAs Ultralight and Light Plane 2001 Previous EAA calendars have won numerous national awards for deshysign and photography

Both 2001 EAA calendars include large color aircraft images sui table for framing background and technishycal information on the featured aircraft as well as colorful areas notshying upcoming dates of EAA AirVenture Oshkosh and other mashyjor EAA fly-ins Within the calendars 12-by-24 inch format are large day boxes for writing in apshypointments and other important events along with a large notes area

The 2001 EAA calendars the 15th in a series that began in 1987 features work by EAAs world-class aviation photographers and addishytional photos provided by EAA volunteer photographers Each 2001 EAA calendar is $1099 (plus shipping and handling) They are

available through EAA by calling 800-843-3612 or through EAAs World Wide Web site (wwweaaorg) EAA Chapters are invited to order bulk quantities of the calendar specially personalized with the Chapters name and other information

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING

One of our most popular columns in Vintage Airplane has been What Our Members Are Restoring Memshybers like Carl Carr of Rockford Ohio send us photos of their recent restorations for publication and all of us can enjoy seeing the variety of airplanes that continue to come out of individual and professional shops all over the world

If youd like to see your airplane featured in this column please send photographs of them to

What Our Members Are Restoring Vintage Airplane Magazine PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Slides or prints are okay all we ask is that they be properly exposed and in focus The quality of prints

-continued on page 25

Carl E Carrs (EAA 8020 VAA 23418) Ranger-powered Fairchild 24 NC18695 was built in 1939 and was orig inally purchased new by movie stars Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford Carl keeps the airplane near his home in Rockford Ohio

VAAWork Weekend

ACAVU day acres and acres of freshly cut grass and groves of oak trees served as the backdrop of one of the most pleasant Vinshytage Work Weekends on record

Volunteers from our Convention Chairmen VAA officers and the membership at large came to VAA Headquarters in Oshkosh to spruce up the place and build four covered stands to protect our f1ightshyline personnel from the sun and other weather factors Beginning the clean up of the Red Barn was part of the process too

Phil Blake Randy Hytry and Ed DeBolt walked the length and breadth of the site installing permashynent row markers after the VAA parking area was surveyed and staked out Gene Morris zipped up from Popular Grove Illinois to install a new windshysock on top of VAA Headquarters Other weekend volunteers were

John Berndt Tim and Joanne Fox Clair Dahl Bob Lumley Bob Brauer Dale Gustafson Dick Mouldenhauer Georgia Schneider Geoff Robison Wes Schmid Steve Nesse Gayle Gruendler and Marlene Griffith

It was a beautiful day and with great folks workshying together we had plenty of fun to boot WeII keep you posted when the next weekend will take place Newcomers are always welcome - dont worry well find something for you to do

John Berndt and Clair Dahl construct and then add the roof trusses to the top on one of the four VAA safety shacks built over the weekend

Framing up the stands (from left to right) are Bob Lumley Dick Mouldenhauer Wes Schmid and Clair Dahl

Pork chops Bob Lumleys special beans and plenty of potato salad was served up at dinnertime for VAA work party volunteers and members of EAA Chapter 272 from Duluth Minnesota who were also volunteering on the AirVenture grounds the same weekend

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bull bull lIve ears

ott Outer Marker

Training the Clipper Crews

In 1955 it became known in govshyernment circles that the Prime Minister of Thailand was deshysirous of making a flight around

the world President Eisenhower quickly came through graciously offering him the use of his personal airplane the Columbine a beautiful plush Lockheed Constellation Lshy749 and a fully qualified Air Force crew to fly it The Prime Minister gratefully accepted the offer proshyvided however that a Pan American crew operate it For the flight Pan Americans Page Smith was assigned as captain Charlie Matthews as first officer while John

Punz was to man the Constellashytions flight engineers station

The airplane hangared at Washshyington was to be picked up and ferried to New York in preparation for the round-the-world departure and so that the involved airmens records would be current I was sent to Washington along with the crew to conduct a fresh flight check for each of the pilots during the return trip to New York

In civilian clothes and carrying typically battered airline flight bags we hopped Eastern Airlines down to Washington then took a taxi to Anshydrews Air Force Base where we

knocked at the gate announcing to a very unbelieving guard that we were there to pick up President Eisenshyhowers airplane For the next many minutes there was an awful lot of telephoning raised eyebrows and off-in-the-corner whispering as we gradually worked our way from one office to another then finally into the hangar itself

On the spotless hangar floor in front of the airplane it took more exshyplaining by many people to those directly charged with the care and protection of this beautiful machine that they were indeed to release it to us Finally with a resigned shrug the

by Holland Dutch Redfield

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hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

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Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

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SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

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VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

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Airplane youll find the ballot for this years V AA Elections which will be ratified during the annual business meeting held during EAA AirVenshyture If youre interested in attending in person please see the top of the biographies on the ballot for the date and location of the Vintage Aircraft Association meetshying Immediately following the VAA meeting the EAA annual meetshying will be convened

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FRONT COVER With its LeRhone rotary engine blatting away Gene DeMarco pilots the Old Rhinebeck Aerodromes Sopwith Camel replica while David King lurks behind him as the Black Baron in the famous Fokker Triplane

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BACK COVER Just east of Lakeland Florida is the town of Winter Haven home to Jack Browns Seaplane Base Each year durshying the annual Sun n Fun EM Fly-In a few of the Piper Cubs used at Browns can be found on Lake Parker taking part in the popshyular Splash-In Instructor Brian Meadley taxis in with one of the Cubs Originally from the United Kingdom Brian now splits his time between Europe and the United States EM photo by Mark Schaible

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Carl E Carrs (EAA 8020 VAA 23418) Ranger-powered Fairchild 24 NC18695 was built in 1939 and was orig inally purchased new by movie stars Buddy Rogers and Mary Pickford Carl keeps the airplane near his home in Rockford Ohio

VAAWork Weekend

ACAVU day acres and acres of freshly cut grass and groves of oak trees served as the backdrop of one of the most pleasant Vinshytage Work Weekends on record

Volunteers from our Convention Chairmen VAA officers and the membership at large came to VAA Headquarters in Oshkosh to spruce up the place and build four covered stands to protect our f1ightshyline personnel from the sun and other weather factors Beginning the clean up of the Red Barn was part of the process too

Phil Blake Randy Hytry and Ed DeBolt walked the length and breadth of the site installing permashynent row markers after the VAA parking area was surveyed and staked out Gene Morris zipped up from Popular Grove Illinois to install a new windshysock on top of VAA Headquarters Other weekend volunteers were

John Berndt Tim and Joanne Fox Clair Dahl Bob Lumley Bob Brauer Dale Gustafson Dick Mouldenhauer Georgia Schneider Geoff Robison Wes Schmid Steve Nesse Gayle Gruendler and Marlene Griffith

It was a beautiful day and with great folks workshying together we had plenty of fun to boot WeII keep you posted when the next weekend will take place Newcomers are always welcome - dont worry well find something for you to do

John Berndt and Clair Dahl construct and then add the roof trusses to the top on one of the four VAA safety shacks built over the weekend

Framing up the stands (from left to right) are Bob Lumley Dick Mouldenhauer Wes Schmid and Clair Dahl

Pork chops Bob Lumleys special beans and plenty of potato salad was served up at dinnertime for VAA work party volunteers and members of EAA Chapter 272 from Duluth Minnesota who were also volunteering on the AirVenture grounds the same weekend

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

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Training the Clipper Crews

In 1955 it became known in govshyernment circles that the Prime Minister of Thailand was deshysirous of making a flight around

the world President Eisenhower quickly came through graciously offering him the use of his personal airplane the Columbine a beautiful plush Lockheed Constellation Lshy749 and a fully qualified Air Force crew to fly it The Prime Minister gratefully accepted the offer proshyvided however that a Pan American crew operate it For the flight Pan Americans Page Smith was assigned as captain Charlie Matthews as first officer while John

Punz was to man the Constellashytions flight engineers station

The airplane hangared at Washshyington was to be picked up and ferried to New York in preparation for the round-the-world departure and so that the involved airmens records would be current I was sent to Washington along with the crew to conduct a fresh flight check for each of the pilots during the return trip to New York

In civilian clothes and carrying typically battered airline flight bags we hopped Eastern Airlines down to Washington then took a taxi to Anshydrews Air Force Base where we

knocked at the gate announcing to a very unbelieving guard that we were there to pick up President Eisenshyhowers airplane For the next many minutes there was an awful lot of telephoning raised eyebrows and off-in-the-corner whispering as we gradually worked our way from one office to another then finally into the hangar itself

On the spotless hangar floor in front of the airplane it took more exshyplaining by many people to those directly charged with the care and protection of this beautiful machine that they were indeed to release it to us Finally with a resigned shrug the

by Holland Dutch Redfield

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hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

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Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

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Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

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Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

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From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

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This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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EAA Regional Fly-Ins shown in bold

JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

experimentals 7 am-I pm Info Info 815385shy5645

JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

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VAAWork Weekend

ACAVU day acres and acres of freshly cut grass and groves of oak trees served as the backdrop of one of the most pleasant Vinshytage Work Weekends on record

Volunteers from our Convention Chairmen VAA officers and the membership at large came to VAA Headquarters in Oshkosh to spruce up the place and build four covered stands to protect our f1ightshyline personnel from the sun and other weather factors Beginning the clean up of the Red Barn was part of the process too

Phil Blake Randy Hytry and Ed DeBolt walked the length and breadth of the site installing permashynent row markers after the VAA parking area was surveyed and staked out Gene Morris zipped up from Popular Grove Illinois to install a new windshysock on top of VAA Headquarters Other weekend volunteers were

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John Berndt and Clair Dahl construct and then add the roof trusses to the top on one of the four VAA safety shacks built over the weekend

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Pork chops Bob Lumleys special beans and plenty of potato salad was served up at dinnertime for VAA work party volunteers and members of EAA Chapter 272 from Duluth Minnesota who were also volunteering on the AirVenture grounds the same weekend

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Training the Clipper Crews

In 1955 it became known in govshyernment circles that the Prime Minister of Thailand was deshysirous of making a flight around

the world President Eisenhower quickly came through graciously offering him the use of his personal airplane the Columbine a beautiful plush Lockheed Constellation Lshy749 and a fully qualified Air Force crew to fly it The Prime Minister gratefully accepted the offer proshyvided however that a Pan American crew operate it For the flight Pan Americans Page Smith was assigned as captain Charlie Matthews as first officer while John

Punz was to man the Constellashytions flight engineers station

The airplane hangared at Washshyington was to be picked up and ferried to New York in preparation for the round-the-world departure and so that the involved airmens records would be current I was sent to Washington along with the crew to conduct a fresh flight check for each of the pilots during the return trip to New York

In civilian clothes and carrying typically battered airline flight bags we hopped Eastern Airlines down to Washington then took a taxi to Anshydrews Air Force Base where we

knocked at the gate announcing to a very unbelieving guard that we were there to pick up President Eisenshyhowers airplane For the next many minutes there was an awful lot of telephoning raised eyebrows and off-in-the-corner whispering as we gradually worked our way from one office to another then finally into the hangar itself

On the spotless hangar floor in front of the airplane it took more exshyplaining by many people to those directly charged with the care and protection of this beautiful machine that they were indeed to release it to us Finally with a resigned shrug the

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hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

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throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

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Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

By H G Frautschy 22 JUNE 2000

Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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EAA Regional Fly-Ins shown in bold

JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

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Training the Clipper Crews

In 1955 it became known in govshyernment circles that the Prime Minister of Thailand was deshysirous of making a flight around

the world President Eisenhower quickly came through graciously offering him the use of his personal airplane the Columbine a beautiful plush Lockheed Constellation Lshy749 and a fully qualified Air Force crew to fly it The Prime Minister gratefully accepted the offer proshyvided however that a Pan American crew operate it For the flight Pan Americans Page Smith was assigned as captain Charlie Matthews as first officer while John

Punz was to man the Constellashytions flight engineers station

The airplane hangared at Washshyington was to be picked up and ferried to New York in preparation for the round-the-world departure and so that the involved airmens records would be current I was sent to Washington along with the crew to conduct a fresh flight check for each of the pilots during the return trip to New York

In civilian clothes and carrying typically battered airline flight bags we hopped Eastern Airlines down to Washington then took a taxi to Anshydrews Air Force Base where we

knocked at the gate announcing to a very unbelieving guard that we were there to pick up President Eisenshyhowers airplane For the next many minutes there was an awful lot of telephoning raised eyebrows and off-in-the-corner whispering as we gradually worked our way from one office to another then finally into the hangar itself

On the spotless hangar floor in front of the airplane it took more exshyplaining by many people to those directly charged with the care and protection of this beautiful machine that they were indeed to release it to us Finally with a resigned shrug the

by Holland Dutch Redfield

4 JUNE 2000

hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

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Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

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by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

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Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

with the methods of creating quick (minutes not days) synshythetic gypsum molds along with Quartering Right Quartering Left

Headwind Headwindmethods on production tooling in epoxy tooling foam all methshy ~ ~ ods materials and techniques used in the prototype and oneshyoff production of glass epoxy FRP aluminum and steel tooling ~-l-Well have a listing of the various m mpresentations and hands-on reviSed 6100

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

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J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

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JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

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AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

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SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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hangar doors were pushed back the airplane towed out onto the ramp and a boarding ladder rolled into place After a short walk-around and interior inspection we started enshygines taxied out took off and banked northward with the Presishydents beautiful shiny airplane while incredulous people shook their heads and watched us disappear over the horizon with their prize possession

On the way home Page and Charshylie each did their stalls slow flight and steep turns then approaching Long Island our flight plan was canshycelled and we swung east to MacArthur Airport for the instrushyment approach and landing portions of their flight checks

In short order our work was comshypleted and we headed back to base at LaGuardia Field

I was well aware that the rest of the crew would be going on with this beautiful airplane and that I wouldshynt and so that I also could rightfully make my own claim to fame as we flew west over Long Island I stepped aft and I wish for all record books to show that on May 10 1955 at 2500 feet over Hempstead Long Island that I too used the head in President Eisenhowers Lockheed

During the Lockheed Constellashytion and Boeing Stratocruiser days it was possible for Pan American line flight engineers to bid on long-term aSSignments to the training section for the operation of training aircraft thus Nick Holt a veteran Pan Amerishycan engineer and I found ourselves doing much flying together

To help us do our job better we designed and rigged up a portable signaling device by means of which from either pilots seat it was possishyble to silently inform Nick at the engineers station what malfunction was to be next simulated There was a small clip on the devices forward panel along with four signaling butshytons and a clip on another small aft panel with four lights which atshytached to a convenient location at

For the next many minutes

there was an awful lot of

telephoning raised

eyebrows and off-in-theshy

corner whispering as we

gradually worked our

way from one office to

another then finally into

the hangar itself

the engineers station We could quickly move the unit from one airshyplane to another A steady No I light meant for Nick to cut the mixture on No1 engine a flashing light meant simulate a fire on No1 enshygine two steady inboard lights meant report a cargo compartment fire and two steady outboard lights mean turn off flight control boost

We had just completed a three-enshygine ILS approach and were climbing northeastward out of LaGuardia Field on three engines when without warning the flight control boost went off causing flight control presshysures to become very high and three-engine control very difficult Puzzled I quickly brought the idling engine back in and looked around for an explanation Nick hastened to show me two steady outboard flights that were on despite my fingers beshying off the buttons

When we later got on the ground we threw that training device into Bowery Bay It had a short circuit This was an early lesson for me on the pitfalls of over-sophistication

The next airplane flown for Pan American was the Boeing Strashytocruiser a double-decked airliner with berths for long night flights and

a plush mirrored lounge on the lower deck

This wonderful airplane was powered by four Pratt and Whitney 3500 horsepower engines each of which had 28 cylinders that were arranged in four radial roWs of seven cylinders each Because of the engines uncowled appearance it was nicknamed the corn cob These big many-cylindered engines ran very very smoothly swinging large four-bladed propellers with very wide paddle-like blades that were made of hollow steel Unfortushynately these prop blades gave many problems some of which caused inshydustry accidents

One morning we had just landed from a Stratocruiser training flight and were in the process of clearing the right runway of the two oriented to the northwest at Idlewild when the tower called our flight and reshyported Clipper 37V you are on fire emergency equipment is on the way First Officer training had been in progress and I was occupying the left captains seat We were moving slowly and the airplane was quickly brought to a stop I opened the large cockpit side window and looked out

As the window was opened there was a powerful roar that sounded like opening the furnace door of an oil burner and high flames that were the color of a home oil burner flame gushed from the left landing gear wheels up and around the idling No2 engine licking at the wings leading and trailing edges and the fuel tanks in these wings that conshytained hundreds of gallons of high octane aviation gasoline

As I withdrew from the window the flight engineer who had run aft to check the situation from the main cabin returned to the cockpit and it was obvious that that he had seen what I had seen His eyes were large and round as he said Lets get out of this son-of-a-__ It certainly seemed a hopeless situation but beshyfore giving up I wished to try something and advanced No2

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Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

HG Frautschy

HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

By H G Frautschy 22 JUNE 2000

Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

f( ~t(ck ~

-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

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DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

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J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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Pan Ams Boeing Stratocruiser was the pinnacle of propeller-driven luxurious travel in the late 1940s and 50s

throttle wide open Behind us the blast from the large four-bladed proshypeller which cleared the ground by less than a foot had laid flat the flames from the hydraulic fire on the left landing gear and to my great reshylief no longer threatened to ignite the wing being now laid flat halfway back to the airplanes distant tail If necessary we could stay like this unshytil fuel ran out

I ducked back into the cockpit to inform the crew what was taking place then stuck my head out again and this time to my amazement there was only a small flickering flame down on the landing gear itshyself The airport fire equipment was arriving and as they took over we cut

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the engine and the big prop swished to a stop

A bad hydraulic leak in a brake line under much pressure along with a malfunctioning dragging brake had been the cause of the fire I can claim no originality for use of the propeller blast having read in a trade magazine a suggesshytion that what we had done might be effective

Another Stratocruiser training flight had been in progress and it was a hazy spring morning as we completed our mission and headed homeward toward Idlewild Airport at New York We were cleared by the control tower to begin our landing

approach and for maneuvering near the airport we flew with a partial flap extension of 2S degrees On final apshyproach my pilot student was having difficulty locating the runway in the bright morning sun and haze and as a result our runway alignshyment ended up considerably offset At about 300 feet I suggested that we abandon the approach circle the field and try again

As throttles were advanced for goshyaround flap and gear retraction was requested At the same time I picked up the radio microphone to inform the tower of our intentions while sishymultaneously actuating the electric toggle switches that initiated retracshytion of the flap and landing gear

Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

HG Frautschy

HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

f( ~t(ck ~

-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

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AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

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Something had to be qUickly done and the throttles

of the two left engines were taken and edged

slowly back until the planes rolling tendency eased

and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but

now the Boeing began losing altitude

While transmitting I noted the airshyplane rolling very rapidly into a steep right bank Wherere you goingI I inquired and at the same time my student advised with great anxiety that he was unable to hold itI Now the two of us were on the airplanes controls and despite full opposite aileron and rudder the bank which was now in excess of 40 degrees conshytinued to slowly increase The ailerons which were stalled out bufshyfeted heavily while the rudder pressures despite the two of us pushshying will all our strength were very high Nick Holt sensing trouble furshyther advanced power on all four engines

Something had to be quickly done and the throttles of the two left enshygines were taken and edged slowly

back until the planes rolling tenshydency eased and the ailerons backed out of the buffet area but now the Boeing began losing altitude If power was re-advanced to prevent loss of our very low altitude a slowly steepening bank again would result despite full opposite control At lower and lower altitudes we went around and around the control tower for at least three times Because of the very high powers in use the cylinshyder head temperatures of the two laboring right engines were rising rapidly and fast becoming an addishytional critical factor Also the microphone had dropped from my lap and I was unable to release the controls long enough to respond to the tower operators very concerned transmissions

The only aerodynamic configurashytion change that we had made during the start of our landing goshyaround was retraction of the 25 degrees of wing flap A shout was made to Meridith Warren another instructor aboard the flight to run aft and check left and right wing flap positions before any further configuration changes were made In a few seconds he was back reshyporting that the left wing flap was extended with the right one fully retracted into the wing

With some hope now of resuming control the flap switch was actuated causing the retracted right flap to slowly move out to a position even with the disabled left one and in only a few seconds time we had a normal flying airplane again What had been a Holy oh Christ here we goI situation one minute was a completely controllable and near

normal one the next But there were some wh ews l and mopping of brows as we backed off informed the tower what had been our predicashyment and then prepared for a partial flap landing

We had been very fortunate that prior to starting our landing goshyaround we only had partial instead of full flap extended Had more flap been in use the resultant rolling tendency would have been unconshytrollable We learned later that the very same day an identical C-97 Air Force airplane had crashed during a somewhat similar training operation following a touch-and-go landing when flaps were retracted from a fully extended position causing the airplane to roll inverted as it lifted off the runway with one flap full down They never had a chance

A rotating torque tube in the flap drive system had broken in each case due to a torque drive support bearing failure Also on early airshyplanes the flap operating toggle switch was designed following acshytuation to stay in the selected position of UP or DOWN A subseshyquent modification changed the switch to a momentary one which would spring return to the OFF posishytion if released for any reason In our situation this would have been very helpful because at the time I released the switch and got on the controls to assist the other pilot flap movement would have ceased rather than slowly becoming more and more split

I had never done so before nor have I since but Nick and I stopped for a good stiff drink on the way home ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

You can also send your response via e-mail Send your answer to vinshytageeaaorg

Be sure to include both your name and address in the body of your note and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

with the methods of creating quick (minutes not days) synshythetic gypsum molds along with Quartering Right Quartering Left

Headwind Headwindmethods on production tooling in epoxy tooling foam all methshy ~ ~ ods materials and techniques used in the prototype and oneshyoff production of glass epoxy FRP aluminum and steel tooling ~-l-Well have a listing of the various m mpresentations and hands-on reviSed 6100

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

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Page 10: VA-Vol-28-No-6-June-2000

by HC Frautschy

The March Mystery Plane stumped the lot of you It was the Sumerville biplane built in 1912 in Coal City Illinois Mr Sumerville was a local businessman with interests in a local wire rope manufacturing concern and the electrical power generating station He served Coal City as its mayor and kept active as an inventor well into the 1940s In 1904 he beshycame the owner of the first automobile in Coal City

In 1911 and 1912 Somerville corshyresponded with the British journals Aero and Flight Journal sharing his ideas concerning the merits of upshyturned wingtips which he viewed as being a noteworthy idea to enhance lateral stability

I am pleased to state that the mashychine showed such wonderful stability in the air that the knockers have all quit Now the upturned wing tip has

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found friends The aviator said that when he banked the machine she would insist on coming back to an even keel and he demonstrated the wonderful stability of the machine by banking and letting her come back herself I have spent my private fortune and three years of my time in developing my ideas Now I expect to get financial aid to continue in the game

- WE Somerville in corresponshydence with liThe Aero August 1912

He tried the idea on a few biplanes and a monoplane all of his own deshysign Earl Daugherty and E Korn flew the airplane as well as Somerville himself

As described in Aeronautics Sepshytember 1912 liThe stability of the machine in the air was something ofa revolution to my aeronautical friends who saw the test The aviator Edward

Our Mystery Plane this month comes from the files of aviation hisshytorian and author Pete Bowers (EAA 317) Well give you a hint-the picshyture was taken in Arrigo Balbonis famous aircraft junkyard in 1941 Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Your answers need to be in no later than July 25 2000 for inshyclusion in the September issue of Vintage Airplane

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Korn explained after he landed that he was astonished at the flying qualities of the machine The machine on being banked would insist on always coming back to a level keel There is no question but that inherent stability is possible without sacrificing efficiency

liThe wings spread total 47 ft There are five 7-foot sections the curved wingshyend making up the balance The spacing between planes is 5-16

liThe control system is of the Farman type A Hall-Scott 80 hp and another 50 hp engine designed by Somerville himselfare being used

The control system description is interesting

liThe ailerons offer a resistance on the high side as well as opening the surface nothing is done to the low side in correctshying lateral balance Both the systems A and B have been tested The B system is more efficient but slower in righting efshyfect With properly designed plane in combination with upturned wing tips Ailerons are not necessary as the mashychine will automatically maintain lateral stability says the inventor but we found that some mechanical system must be used when getting up or landing especially in a side wind as the upturned wings act too slow After the machine is in the air it will take care of itself latershyally with an occasional touch from the rudder on the high side

One of our regular contributors to Mystery Plane is away at college but he wrote in to acknowledge the passshying of two great folks who have kept

aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

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Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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EAA Regional Fly-Ins shown in bold

JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

experimentals 7 am-I pm Info Info 815385shy5645

JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

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aviation history alive What a true loss it is to the aviation

community with the passing of both Joseph Juptner and Lennart Johnsson Both played great roles in keeping our aviation heritage alive

Mr uptners ATe volumes are the bible ofany true antiquer I used to sit in my room at night reading his books instead ofdoing my homework I was just fascinated how much work he put in with each airplane The stories he told and his delightful style of writing made me feel like I was right there in the era as a spectator

I know less about Mr Johnsson but his work on wwwaerofilescomis the best that I have seen on the web Aeroshyfilescom like Juptners work with the A Te volumes has paved a path for future generations to learn about our antique heritage on the web

Sincerely Nick Hurm Spring Valley Ohio

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William E Somerville and his biplane powered by an 80 hp Hall-Scott It first flew on August 4 1912

1912 Somerville AutoshyStable Biplane

One of the pilots of the biplane Mr Earl S Daugherty

Somerville in the Coal City electrical power generating station

Mr Somerville enjoyed machinery of all types and was the owner of the first automobile in Coal City Illinois

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

10 JUNE 2000

Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

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(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

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Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

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From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

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First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

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SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

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Variable Pitch Pro s

By Jim Reddig as told to Hugh Jones EAA Chapter 44

Editors Note

EllA Chapter 44 in Rochester New York had the good fortune to have Jim Reddig as one of its members

A veteran of the early days ofaviation his engineering expertise made him one of the Golden Age ofAviations bestshyknown designers A shining example of his work is the classic Fleetwings Seabird amphibian Jim was an active member ofChapter 44 and Hugh Jones and felshylow members recognized what a treasure they had in their midst They did their best to capture as many ofJims stories as possible and published them in the Chapter 44 newsletter From time to time well share them with you Jim passed away in 1994

In the mid-30s the navy was supshyporting development of three types of variable-pitch propeller the Hamilton-Standard hydraulic-conshytrolled system the Curtiss Electric propeller and the SMITH propeller that was operated entirely mechanishycally The pilot had a manually operated control in the cockpit by which through mechanism he could vary the pitch of his propeller blades Early Grumman biplane fighters joinshying the fleet were equipped with SMITH propellers Remember those pregnant looking fat-bellied airplanes with retractable landing gear

And one of these taking off from an aircraft carrier out of San Diego suffered loss of power on launch and went down into the sea directly ahead of the oncoming carrier They had the good fortune to be able to get a line to the floating aircraft legend leaves some doubt that the pilot even got his feet wet The airshyplane was promptly hosed down with fresh water and brought ashore was soon packaged onto a railroad car and shipped to the Naval Aircraft Factory at the

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Philadelphia Navy Yard for cleanshying repair and refurbishment inspection flight test and return to the fleet This included complete teardown examination of the SMITH propeller and re-assembly with the blades carefully reset to their proper pitch The reassembled airplane was test-flown at Mustin Field inspected and signed off for return to San Diego While the asshysigned navy ferry pilot had never flown one of the exciting new Grumman fighters no one seemed to have felt concern in the matter

Wa-a-ay off schedule he stagshygered into the Great Lakes Naval Air Training station in Chicago and plunked the thing down Everybody was saying Where the hell have you beenI etc

And he says Guys this is the first Grumman Ive ever flown and if this is the GREAT Grumman Ive been hearing so much about-it stinksI

Well now Ensign whats the trouble

It wont take off it wont climb its got no ceiling it runs hot and it vibrates like hellI

Well obviously you dont know how to fly a Grumman cause thats a great airplane You stand down and get the Lieutenant here to take it onto the West Coast

So again way behind schedule this Lieutenant makes it on into San Diego but he has the look of being wrung out when he checks in

And he says Guys that airplane is all wrong I have had it checked at five airfields on the way out here TW A mechanics were good enough to come over and they went over it And Ive been in and out of it and theres something definitely wrong It stinks I had to land on the road and taxi across the Rocky Mountains

It didnt have enough ceiling to get overI

They turned to some old aviation chief there and said Go look at the guys airplaneI

Hes back in 10 minutes lit up like a lamp and he says Excuse me lieushytenant you said you checked that airplane

Oh boy have we checked it You say TWA checked it and

American checked it etc YeahI If Im not asking too much lieushy

tenant he says will you come out and look at the airplane with me

They go out and the chief says Just look at it

Yeah well I He couldnt see anything wrong Lieutenant will you please step

over and pull the engine through The minute he put his hands on

the propeller he lit up He knew His hands were curled over the rounded leading edge of the propeller

The SMITH was perhaps the only propeller in history where you could get the blades in backwards The pitch of the blades had been set accurately at Philadelphia on the big steel surface plates with big protractors and everything but they were 180 degrees around And this thing had flown across the continent with the sharp trailing edge plowing ahead and the rounded part on the back

Of course in the Navy every incishydent gets written down on a piece of paper The form was known as a Trouble Report Roy (Grumman) had this thing this Trouble Report sayshying Propeller blades in backwards framed and displayed for many years His wonderful new airplane had just crossed the country with the proshypeller blades on backwards

LAKELAND-FLORIDA

(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

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Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

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From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

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This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

HG Frautschy

Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

experimentals 7 am-I pm Info Info 815385shy5645

JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

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SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 16-17-ROCK FA LLS IL-Whiteside County Airport (SQ1) North Central EAA Old fashioned Fly-In Sun morning pancake breakshyfastlnfo 630543-6743 oreaaIOIaolcom

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(Previous Page) Theres always a big Swift contingent at Sun n Fun and the 2000 edition of this years fly-in was no exception From the stock edition to the bubble-canopied modifieds the Swift Club and their members were there to show off their favorite airplanes Steve Larmore and his wife Virginia Reidy of Islesboro Maine pulls in close with his 125 hp 1946 Globe GC-1 B Swift

Row upon row of beautiful airplanes

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Howard DGA-15s are always a beautiful sight during a fly-in This one is registered to John Brausch of Medina Ohio

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

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From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

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This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

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If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 16-17-ROCK FA LLS IL-Whiteside County Airport (SQ1) North Central EAA Old fashioned Fly-In Sun morning pancake breakshyfastlnfo 630543-6743 oreaaIOIaolcom

SEPTEMBER 22-23-BA RTLESVILLE OK-Frank Phillips Field 43rd Annllal Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918622-8400

SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

SEPTEMBER 30-HANOVER IN-Lee 801l0m Airport (641) Wood Fabric alld Tailwheels Fly-In Rain date 101 starts al10 am Info Rich Davidson 812866-5654 nx21175thaolcom

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Gotcha Gene DeMarco in the Sopwith Camel shoots down David King in the Fokker Triplane in the skies over Lakeland Gene David and the rest of the gang from the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome flew before each daily airshow

Can you find your airplane in this overhead shot of the Vintage parking area

HG Frautschy

From left to right Dr Paul Sensor friend Bill Ege and Pauls brother Donn flew Pauls Stinson 8E Reliant from Iowa It was selected the Reserve Grand Champion Antique

Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

HG Frautschy

This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

HG Frautschy

HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

f( ~t(ck ~

-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

with the methods of creating quick (minutes not days) synshythetic gypsum molds along with Quartering Right Quartering Left

Headwind Headwindmethods on production tooling in epoxy tooling foam all methshy ~ ~ ods materials and techniques used in the prototype and oneshyoff production of glass epoxy FRP aluminum and steel tooling ~-l-Well have a listing of the various m mpresentations and hands-on reviSed 6100

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EAA Regional Fly-Ins shown in bold

JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

experimentals 7 am-I pm Info Info 815385shy5645

JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 16-17-ROCK FA LLS IL-Whiteside County Airport (SQ1) North Central EAA Old fashioned Fly-In Sun morning pancake breakshyfastlnfo 630543-6743 oreaaIOIaolcom

SEPTEMBER 22-23-BA RTLESVILLE OK-Frank Phillips Field 43rd Annllal Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918622-8400

SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

SEPTEMBER 30-HANOVER IN-Lee 801l0m Airport (641) Wood Fabric alld Tailwheels Fly-In Rain date 101 starts al10 am Info Rich Davidson 812866-5654 nx21175thaolcom

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Stearmans always get plenty of attenshytion and this one sure does Freddy Vyfvinkel of New Smyrna Beach Florida rebuilt and flies this award-winshyning example of the Boeing Stearman B75N1

Paul Bartman of Ocala Florida brought this very nice 1956 Cessna 182 Former owner Bob Carpenter says it looks as good as it did when it was repainted about ten years ago

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This years Sun n Fun Antique Grand Champion was a Howard Ed and Barbara Moores DGA-15P

Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

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GEE BEE WING

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HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

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First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

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DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

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J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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Mark Schaible

HGFrautschy Steven Smith (left) and his brother Bill restored th is Sti nson 108-1 (above) Years ago it used to belong to the family Now its back home It was chosen to be the Best Custom Classic award winner Bill and Steve hail from Long Beach California

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

HG Frautschy

Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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HG Frautschy

You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

HG Frautschy

Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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HG Frautschy

Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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HG Frautschy

Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

with the methods of creating quick (minutes not days) synshythetic gypsum molds along with Quartering Right Quartering Left

Headwind Headwindmethods on production tooling in epoxy tooling foam all methshy ~ ~ ods materials and techniques used in the prototype and oneshyoff production of glass epoxy FRP aluminum and steel tooling ~-l-Well have a listing of the various m mpresentations and hands-on reviSed 6100

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

experimentals 7 am-I pm Info Info 815385shy5645

JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 16-17-ROCK FA LLS IL-Whiteside County Airport (SQ1) North Central EAA Old fashioned Fly-In Sun morning pancake breakshyfastlnfo 630543-6743 oreaaIOIaolcom

SEPTEMBER 22-23-BA RTLESVILLE OK-Frank Phillips Field 43rd Annllal Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918622-8400

SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

SEPTEMBER 30-HANOVER IN-Lee 801l0m Airport (641) Wood Fabric alld Tailwheels Fly-In Rain date 101 starts al10 am Info Rich Davidson 812866-5654 nx21175thaolcom

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Max and Rene Davis own the only flying Stinson SR-6A just restored by Howard and Joyce Kron of Clara City Minnesota It was chosen to receive the Antique Best Cabin trophy

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Galen Hutchison of Harrison Arkansas brought his Kinner K-S powered Brunner-Winkle Bird BK It was first restored by the late Glen Short of Neillsville Wisconsin

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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You dont see too many Champion 402 Lancers on the flight line (there werent that many made) so each one is an oddity This one belongs to Virgil Rothrock Jr Streator Illinois

Nicholas Pierce flies this nice Lycoming-powered Monocoupe 90A serial number 749 Hes from Wilmington North Carolina

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Th is custom ized Luscombe was presented with the Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy Its owned and flown by Mark and Yvonne May of Chapmansboro Tennessee

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

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SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

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Sometimes the simplest of color schemes can be the most effective John Pattersons Stinson 10A is living proof that simple can be beautiful

Pipers were cershytainly prolific at Sun n Fun with a few shiny new restorations to drool over Joe L Christian of Naylor Georgia won the Best Custom Antique for his Piper J-3 Cub

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Piper Pacers are one of the darlings of the short-wing world and this prime example flown to Sun n Fun by Geoff Newcombe of Vero Beach FL is very well maintained It won one of the Outstanding In Type-Contemporary awards at Sun n Fun

Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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Headwind Headwindmethods on production tooling in epoxy tooling foam all methshy ~ ~ ods materials and techniques used in the prototype and oneshyoff production of glass epoxy FRP aluminum and steel tooling ~-l-Well have a listing of the various m mpresentations and hands-on reviSed 6100

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

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Bill Tylers 1958 Cessna 172 has been convertshyed to a handsome taildragger

EAA photographer Mark Schaible really captured the beauty of the 1935 Waco YOC owned and flown by Bob Jaeger of Allentown Pennsylvania It was picked to receive the AntiqueshyContemporary Age award

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

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First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

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SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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The International Sport Aviation Museum (ISAM) locatshyed on the Sun n Fun grounds are a great place to stop for a few hours The museum has many artifacts on disshyplay from their recent acquisition of aviation items from the Howard Hughes estate The Hughes XF-11 wind-tunshynel model in the foreground just in front of the Anderson Kingfisher is part of that collection

Remember one of the brightest antique airplane color schemes that of the Cessna Airmaster Those are the same shades on Jim Herpsts Taylorcraft Well bet you can really see this one in the pattern

Another very nice restoration was the clipped-wing J-3 Cub owned by David Brown of Rock Hill South Carolina His custom cockpit was tastefully done with standard Cub instrumentation

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

By H G Frautschy 22 JUNE 2000

Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

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The Piper Comanche is fast becoming one of the favorites of the Contemporary category This one came to us from Texas flown by Larry Cheatwood of Fort Worth

EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

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First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

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DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

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JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

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SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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EAA AirVenture IRENTURE

MUSEUM Museum Discoveries -~-

GEE BEE WING

EAA ISN T JUST A PLACE TO VISIT ONCE A YEAR THE OTHER 51 WEEKS

OUTSIDE OF AIRVENTURE ARE ALSO A GREAT TIME TO VISIT THE AIRVENshy

TURE MUSEUM THERES PLENTY TO SEE AND ON A REGULAR BASIS WELL

HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ARTIFACTS AND DISPLAYS VINTAGE AIRPLANE

ENTHUSIASTS WOULD FIND INTERESTING

First on our tour is one of the few remaining genuine artifacts from a Gee Bee aircraft Pictured on these pages is the right wing from the Gee Bee Model E Sportster first registered as NC-72V Later it became NX-72V when the CAA made a regulatory change that moved the airplane to the experimenshytal category bull This particular Gee Bee was built to order for Mr Bill Sloan of Rochester New York who had briefly owned and flown the previous Gee Bee E built NC-46V As written in Henry Haffkes Gee Bee-The Real Story of th e Granville Brothers and Their Marvelous Airplanes He had added SO hours to its [NC-46V] log when Zantford Granville contacted him and asked if he would return the aircraft to the Granville Company Granny needed a plane to enter in the upcomshying Ford Air Tour and didnt have time to build one He promised Sloan that he would build him a new Sportster if he would return NC46V Bill Sloan later admitted the prospect of having an airplane built especially for him was most attractive and was an offer he couldnt refuse so he returned the

By H G Frautschy 22 JUNE 2000

Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

For Museum hours and admission information please call 920426-4818 or point your web browser to wwweaaorg

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

Over to you

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-News from page 2

from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

~ ~try it yourself Our invited craftsmen will preshy

sent a variety of projects from continuous video presentations to the construction of various airshycraft related components along [I

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Quartering Right Quartering Left Tailwind Tailwind

with the methods of creating quick (minutes not days) synshythetic gypsum molds along with Quartering Right Quartering Left

Headwind Headwindmethods on production tooling in epoxy tooling foam all methshy ~ ~ ods materials and techniques used in the prototype and oneshyoff production of glass epoxy FRP aluminum and steel tooling ~-l-Well have a listing of the various m mpresentations and hands-on reviSed 6100

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

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eec The Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc amp The Twin Beech 18 Society is proudly sponsors the

Annual Travel Air staggerwing Twin Beech 18 Convention

Tullahoma TN Regional Airport October 18-222000

Witness the History of the Beech Aircraft Company I The on-site museum has the following aircraf t SIN 1 Travel Air (1924) The Thompson Trophy Travel Air Air Mystery Ship (1929) SIN 1 Staggerwing (1932) plus an example of every model

Staggerwing built rB through G) Twin Beech 18 (1 937 3rd oldest ) D18s and C45

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Gee Bee to Granny When the new plane was

delivered in August it would prove to be the last Model E built out of four constructed NC856Y SIN 4 NCII044 SIN 6 NC46V SIN 7 and NC72V SIN 8 (According to research done by Henry Hafshyfke the phantom Gee Bee E referred to as NCll041 never existed-it was in fact a poorly photographed NCI1044)

Sloan eventually logged 990 hours in his yellow and blue Model E (with a grand total of 1040 hours in NC46V and NC72V) flying aerobatics and racing the airshyplane As the noose tightened around the nations economy during ing his landing The collision killed the field that had plenty of room the Great Depression cash was tight the husband and wife in the truck and leave him no other choice but to even for a wealthy sportsman pilot but the life of Don and the couples land in a much shorter field He ran like Bill Sloan who sold NC72V to baby were spared The Gee Bee was into a fence once again wrecking Jack Wyman of Philadelphia later taken back to Springfield where the Gee Bee Thankfully Walters Wyman sold it to famous air show it was rebuilt Interestingly the CAA wasnt hurt but the Gee Bee was toshypilot Johnny Crowell who camshy tag now inside the wing states it was taled paigned the airplane from 1934 until built 1-10-34 In 1973 Bill Sweet advised EAA 1936 At that time it was the last Walters was flying again on the Founder Paul Poberezny that a friend known flying Gee Bee airs how circuit when the engine quit of his Tallie Holland (EAA 9300) of

Crowell traded the Model E to Bill on him while he was practicing aeroshy Columbus OH had the wing of Sweet and Don Walters of Bill batics near Indianapolis Indiana NC72V in his possession He was inshySweet s National Airshow Walters After setting up an approach to a terested in donating it to the EAA flew the Gee Bee in the shows until field he worked to restart the enshy museum and as soon as arrangeshyone day at an airshow in Texas a gine It came back to life for about a ments could be made the wing was truck pulled out onto the field dur- minute just long enough to clear transported to Hales Corners Wisshy

consin the original home of the EAA Museum

final color scheme of the airplane was white and red with a medium blue pinstripe It now rests in the center of the EAA AirVenture Museums Air Racshying Gallery just to the west of Steve Wittmans Bonzo and tucked under the left wing of the full size Laird Sushyper Solution replica Still covered in the fabric used after the second reshybuild the airplane s final color scheme of white red and a thin 14 medium blue pinstripe is still visible

The Gee Bee Model E wing on disshyplay at the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh Wisconsin

Don Walters (left) and Bill Sweet at the Port Columbus Ohio airport in 1938 with NC72V The

Another view of the airplane prior to its tenure with Bill Sweets National Airshow

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

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DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

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PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

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LAHSO and other Hot Buttons

The recent hullabaloo about the Landing and Hold Short procedure has been complicated enough but now comes word that there is an FAA Bulletin dated 03-30-99 that specifically prohibits accepting this type of clearance for part 91 (thats most of us) without training and compliance with the intent of this bulletin

For those of you with the capabilshyity to access Bulletin FSGA 99-02 titled General Aviation 14 CFR Parts 91 and 125 Land and Hold Short Opshyerations (LAHSO) under part 2 there are all kinds of methodologies (FAA word) and computations and sources of information to accomplish this training It sure gets complicated but when it s all condensed and dishygested it amounts to the authors trying to impart common sense to the situation The factors to consider before accepting the clearance are basically the runway length availshyable and if the airport (and runway) is approved for the operation Are there guidance cues like runway disshytance markers lighting signs etc Did you compute the reqUired landshying distance Have you checked one of the most important factors the reshyjected landing procedure and capability of the aircraft

It is my opinion the best course of action is to refuse any request to LAHSO by the tower controllers You havent the time or the resources in the cockpit in most cases when turning final and receiving a clearshyance to Land and Hold Short to

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immediately assess the situation and comply with all the demands outshylined in this bulletin and be legal

Specific airport information needs to be available The Training criteria is generic and doesnt cover every airport so beware of the pitfall of acshycepting the LAHSO Clearance This is another case of the FAA regulations where one section undoes what anshyother section proclaims as the rule Every flight every day is hazardous to your certificate Somewhere buried in the mass of regulations there is a rule that can hang you

GPS Navigation Another pitfall I recently read of

a typical Dilbert operation It was about an examiner conducting a flight test He asked the test-taker to plan a cross country The guy said something like No Problem what are the coordinates of the destinashytion He then put them into his GPS and away they went About fifshyteen or twenty minutes into the flight the examiner reached over and turned off the GPS

You know the rest of the story shyhe was not only lost he busted the Check

Storal of the morey Use GPS as a back-up and be aware of where you are and the progress of the flight at all times Have that Flight plan in hand and do it right

(Having your finger on the secshytional pointing to your current position is a pretty good crosscheck too -HGF)

Runway Incursion Another HOT topiC these days

are the runway incursions that seem to be rather vexing to our Fuzz Unshyderstandable because they do cause some hairs to stand on end and rightfully so This is not just an airshyline airport problem - it involves all of us and dates right back to Comshymon Pilot Responsibility On your personal Before Flying Checklist you should have a reminder to acshycept the Responsibility of Command The instant you take control of that aircraft or any vehishycle for that matter whether a bicycle scooter ATV boat or whatever YOU and YOU ALONE are responsible for its operation It becomes a lethal weapon and can do damage if misdishyrected and allowed to run loose

Before you even contemplate opshyerating any vehicle you should have a plan in mind When you tighten that seat belt and before you start the engine safe and responsible operashytion should be on your mind Be ahead of your airplane - way ahead Plan your taxi route with your head on a swivel Dont rely on a tower controller to taxi for you Progresshysive taxi clearance please are the words if you are unfamiliar with the airport layout

Dont ever ask the controller for Instructions He is NOT an inshystructor He can issue a clearance to taxi etc but if he starts instructshy

ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

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DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

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CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

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J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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ing you ask for his Instructor Cershytificate number You are in control of the aircraft he is in the tower cab He is an advisor with the reshysponsibility of providing traffic separation If he issues a clearance that is confusing or in error put a stop to the situation right then and there Dont do another thing until you both have a clear understandshying of the situation The responsibility of command is still yours and yours alone Mistakes will happen We are all human and we all blow it once in a while but with two sets of eyes and a little caution (read wariness) the risk can be minimized

At dirt fields and uncontrolled fields use your head stay alert and stay alive The responsibility is now entirely yours and the second set of eyes is lacking so its even more pressing that you maintain the greatest vigilance Watch out for the other guy and the unexpected

And while we are on the subject of being mentally prepared - do you review your options before you open that throttle Have you a firm plan in mind if that engine quit on takeoff We recently had the pilot of a Christen Eagle at a small Restricted Landing Area near here try to make it back to the field when his engine shelled out on takeoff He is still tryshying to figure out what happened from his hospital bed and the Eagle is a total loss He ran out of all his options at the same time The Eagle stalled then cartwheeled into a plowed field a hundred feet short and forty-five degrees to the runshyway He just wasnt prepared mentally for the situation If he had just reviewed his options and predeshytermined his actions prior to opening the throttle maybe the reshysults wouldnt have been so drastic

Oh yes yn the GPS item - Cy Galley says No problem he just whipped out his portable GPS and went right back at it

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from home computers varies widely so at this time wed prefer to work from regular photos Please dont write directly on the back of the phoshytos (the ink often winds up on the photo next to it in the envelope) Just jot down some of the particulars about the airplane on a sheet of pashyper or small note and tape it to the back of the photo We look forward to seeing what youve been working on

METAL SHAPING AT AIRVENTURE 2000

EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation will again present our metal shaping forum Just as in 1999 it will be in the workshop tent next to the VAA Headquarters just east of the Theater in the Woods The same group of highly skilled craftsmen has been invited to return Again you will see the compound curve in sheet metal being formed using nushymerous methods From the hollowed out tree stump and Marshyvin Wahls Box Elder mallet to the Pullmax machine we will be shapshying metal English wheels kick stretchers and shrinkers hammers dollies slappers spoons forming heads and shot bags will be demonshystrated too Ever heard of a snarling tool We will have some

demonstrations in next months Vinshytage Airplane

If you have any questions about our metal shaping activities planned for AirVenture 99 you can call V AA Director Steve Nesse during the evening between 900-1030 pm CDT507373-1674

DEHAVILLAND DINNER AT OSHKOSH

If youre a devotee of the deHavshyilland Moth and its brethren mark your calendars Friday July 28 2000 join them for a deHavilland Moth Club Dinner at 700 pm The event will be held at The Belleshyvue located in the Pioneer Resort and Marina 1000 Pioneer Drive Oshkosh overlooking Lake Winshynebago All worldwide deHavilland and Moth fanciers are welcome

Their private room will feature a cash bar along with a special seafood menu a Friday night tradition in Wisconsin Dont forget Fridays Moth Forum during AirVenture

Send your RSVP by July 15 to Steve Betzler email stevebtz cedarnet or FAX 262-538-0715

CROSSWIND CORRECTION In last months issue the artwork

showing control stick placement while taxiing with a quartering tail wind was incorrect Heres how it should look

Remember this is hands-on - r-- - - - - L-PLACEM-ENT OURIN-GT - - - --CONTRO - - - - - - - - - - -AXnNGdont just stand there and watch

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

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JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

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JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 16-17-ROCK FA LLS IL-Whiteside County Airport (SQ1) North Central EAA Old fashioned Fly-In Sun morning pancake breakshyfastlnfo 630543-6743 oreaaIOIaolcom

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

SEPTEMBER 30-HANOVER IN-Lee 801l0m Airport (641) Wood Fabric alld Tailwheels Fly-In Rain date 101 starts al10 am Info Rich Davidson 812866-5654 nx21175thaolcom

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

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J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

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JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

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JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

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JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

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AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

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SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

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SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

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SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

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Fly-In Calendar The following list ofcoming events is furshynished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute apshyproval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (fly-in seminars fly market etc) listed Please send the informashytion to EAA Au Vintage Airplane P o Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Informashytion should be received four months prior to the event date

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JUNE 10-11 - SUGAR GRO VE LL - Aurora Mushynicipal Airport EAA Chapter 579 co-hosts 16th annual Fly-In and Open House Breakfast and Lunch on field pilots with a full airplane eat free breakfast Info Alan Shackleton 6304664579

JUNE 10-1 I -PETERSBURG VA - Petersbllrg-Dinshywiddie Airport Virgilia State EAA Fly-ll 11fo www vaeaaorg

JUNE 10-11 -ALLIANCE OH -Alliance-Barbel Airport (2D1) Military Vehicle Show and Fly-in Food all day Info Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or WWlvtaylorcrafiorg

JUNE 15 - 18 - ST LOUIS MO -American Waco Club Fly-In Creve Coeur Airport Contacts Phil Coulson 616624-6490 or Jerry Brown 317535shy8882

JUNE 15-18-MIDDLETO WN OH - HookField 10th National Aeronca Convention Fri steakjiy Sat Banquet camping Aeroncafactory tours (most likely the last tours ever) Info Jim Thompshyson PO Box 102 Roberts lL 60962-0102 2173952522 (evenings)

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly-In and Breakfast 7 30 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

JUNE 17-KOKOMO IN-Kokomo Municipal Airport (OKK) EAAAFA Fly-InDrive-In all you can eat breakfast 7-11 am also FAA Wings Safety proshygram

JUNE 17-COOPERSTOWN NY CooperstownWestville Airport (K-23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast EAA Chapter 1070 730-Noon Info 607547-2526

J UNE 18 - SOMERSE T PA - County Airport (2G9) Somerset Aero Club 58th annual Fly-In breakfast 8 am - Noon Chicken BBQ Noon-2 pm

JUNE 24 - PROSSER WA - WAA Chapter 391 Fly-In breakfast 509735-1664

JUNE 24-25 - WA LWORTH WI - Bigfoot Field (7V3) Pancake breakfastbrunch Rides and disshyplays of vintage aircraft warbirds and

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JUNE 24 - GRANSONVlLLE MD - 4th annual Talshyisman Field picnic and Fly-in Grill items and drinks provided - bring a salad covered dish or dessert Bring the spouses and children Info conshytact Art Klldner 410-827-7154 or talismanriendlynet

JUNE 24-25-LONGMONT COLORADO-EAA Rocky Mountain Regional Fly-In fo 303442shy5002 or wwwgreeleynetcolIIeaaregional lindex MIII

JUNE 25 - NILES MI - Jeny Tyler Memorial Airshyport EAA Chapter 865 Pancake Breakfast 7 am-1 pm Info Ralph Ballard 616684-0972 or Jim Van Hulle 219271-8533

JULY 4-MT MORRIS IL-(C55) Ogle County Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-11 am Info Glen Orr 815732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

JULY 5-9 - ARLINGTON WA - No rthwest EAA Fly-ln ro 360435-5857or wwwIIveaaorg

JULY 7-8 LOMPOC CA - Lompoc Ailport 16th Anshynual West Coast Piper Cub Fly-In Info Bruce Fall805733-1914

JULY 7-9 - ALLIANCE OH - Alliance-Barber Aiport (2DI) 28th Annual Taylorcraft Owners Club Fly-In and Old Timer s Rermion Displaysfoshyntms workshops Sat evening program Brea~fast Sat and SlIn served by EAA Chapter 82 Info Brllce Bixler 330823-9748 Forrest Barber 330823-1168 or Wlvwtaylorcrajiorg

JULY 15-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airplane Fly- III and breakfast 730 am -Noon Info 607547-2526

JUL Y 15-DEKALB LL-DeKalb Muni Airport DTMA Transportation Expo 2000 1Iam-4pm Hosted by the city ofDeKalb RampM Aviation EAA Chapter 241 and the Chamber ofComm Free admission and parking

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI -EAA AirVentllre 2000 Info EAA HQ 920-426-4800 or wWlVeaaorg and wwwfly-inorg

JULY 26 - AUGUST 1 - OSHKOSH WI - EAA ConshyventionAirVenture Fly-In Visit the American Navion Society in the type club tent in the Vintage area south ofthe Red Barn Allend annual Navion dinner and Navionfol1lm Info 970245-7459

JULY 28 - OSHKOSH WI - Stinson Lunch at Oshkosh Meet at 1130 am behind Theater In the Woods for a free blls ride to GolfCentral restallshyrant Pay on your own there Sign up at the Type Clllb tent or call Suzette Selig 630904-6964

AUGUST 5-ELLSWORTH KS-(9K7) EAA Chapter 1127 Fly-In brea~fast and Cowtown Days Festival Info Dale Weinhold 785472-4309

AUGUST 6 - QUEEN CITY MO - 13th annual FlyshyIn at Applegate Airport Info 660766-2644

AUGUST 12 - CA DILLAC MI - EAA Chapter 678 Fly- In Breakfast 0730 - 1100 Wexford County Airport (CAD) Info Jim Shadoan 231779-8113

AUGUST 13-18 - SANTA MA RlA CA - American Navion Society National Convention Info 970245-7459

AUGUST 19 - KALAMAZOO MI - Newmans Field (4NO) Fly-In LlInch donation or Dish to pass Info 616375-0208 or 375-069

AUGUST 19-COOPERSTOWN NY-(K23) Old Airshyplane Fly-In and breakfast 730 am-Noon Info 607547-2526

AUGUST 19-5PEARFISH SD-Clyde lee Field 17th Annual EAA Chapter 806 Fly-In Info Bob Golay 605642-2311 (evenings) or c2Igolaymatocom

AUGUST 20 - BROOKFIELD Wl - Capitol Airport 17th Annual Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5 pm Midwest Antique Airshyplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display Fun for the entire family Info Capitol Airport 4141781-832 or George MeadeFly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUS T 25-27 - MATTOON IL - 4rd Annual MTO Luscombe Fly-In Luscombe jlldging and awards forums and banquet $50 cash to Lusshycombe that flies thefartestto allend Contacts Jerry Cox 2171234-8720 or Shannon Yoakim 217234-7120

SEPTEMBER 1-3-PROSSER WA-17th Annllal EAA Chapter 39 Labor Day Fly-In Info 509735shy1664

SEPTEMB ER 3 - MONDO VI WI - Fly- In Log Cabin Airport Douglas J Ward SI49 Segerstrom Rd Mondovi Wl54755-7855 715287-4205

SEPTEMBER 2-MARION IN -(MZZ) 10th annual FlyIn Cmiseln Pancake breakfast Antiqlle Classhysic Homebllilt Ultralight and Warbird Aircraft as well as all types ofclassic vehicles Info Ray L Johnson (765)664-2588

SEPTEMBER 3-WA YNESVILL E OH-Red Stewart Airport (401) 8th Annual EAA Chapter 284 Tailshydragger Fly-In and breakfast (7am-I1am) Info Steve Hanshew 937780-6343

SEPTEMBER 4-10-GALESBURG IL 29th National Stearman Fly-In Info John Lohmar 314283-7278 or 636947-7278

SEPTEMBER 8-10 - SACRAMENTO CA - Golden West EAA Regional Fly-ln Info 530677-4503 or WIVlVgwfly-borg

SEPTEMBER 9-MUSCLE SHOALS AL-(MSL) 3rd Anlllla EAA Chapter 615 Cotton State Fly-In Info Eric Faires 256768-0685 ericrv6yahoocom

SEPTEMBER 9-10-SHIRLEY NY-Brookhaven Calshyabro airport 37th Annual Anlique Airplane Club of Greater New York Fly-ln Rain date 916-17 Info Roy Kiesel 63 I589-03 74

SEPTEMBER 9-10-STEUBENVILLE OH-Jefferson County Airpark (2G2) Airshow 2000 hosted by EAA Chapter 859 Info W Van Nuys 740282shy7221 or wvannuyseohionet

SEPTEMB ER 10-MT MORRIS IL -(C55) Ogle COllnty Pilots Assoc and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In breakfast 7-Noon lnfo Glen Orr 8151732-7268 or airport at 815734-6136

SEPTEMBER 10-BURLINGTON WI-(C52) Panshycake breakfast Hamburger IlInch 7am-330 pm

SEPTEMBER J5-17-WATERTOWN Wl-(RNV) 16th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Stinson Reunion Info Suezette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 16-17-ROCK FA LLS IL-Whiteside County Airport (SQ1) North Central EAA Old fashioned Fly-In Sun morning pancake breakshyfastlnfo 630543-6743 oreaaIOIaolcom

SEPTEMBER 22-23-BA RTLESVILLE OK-Frank Phillips Field 43rd Annllal Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918622-8400

SEPTEMBER 22-23-ASHEBORO NC-EAA Chapter 11 76 Aerofest 2000 at Smith Airfield Oldfashshyioned grass field fly-in and pig pickin Unicom 1229 Info Jeff Smith 336879-2830

SEPTEMBER 30-HANOVER IN-Lee 801l0m Airport (641) Wood Fabric alld Tailwheels Fly-In Rain date 101 starts al10 am Info Rich Davidson 812866-5654 nx21175thaolcom

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Copyright copy2000 by the EM Antage Aircraft Association All rights reserved

VINTAGE AIRPLANE (lSSN 0091-6943) IPM 1482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Associalion and is published monlhly al EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WIS4903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at ieast two months tor delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail ADVERTISING - Antage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be lakenEDrrORlAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to submil Siories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in ariKles are sltgteIy those of the authors ResponsitgtliIy for accuracy in reporting resls entirely with the contribut()( No renumeralion ~ made Material should be sent to Ed()( VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Phone 920426-4800

The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WtTH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EM EAA tNTERNATIONAl CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarllts THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVentur are Iradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited

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V Step-by-step video also available V Hands-on workshops nationwide

FAX909-fJ84-0S18 Aircraf1 Coa1ings

Ken Hyde

Warrenton VA

Founded antique

aircraft restoration firm

Virginia Aviation Co

in 1965

American Airlines pilot -

1965 to 1997

Co-founder of Ken and Beverly Hyde with Cliff Robertson during the filming of EAAs Young Eagles

The Wright Experiment

AUAis

approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612

Whether it is flying the Jenny to

Oshkosh with Charlie Kulp or filming

EAAs Young Eagles with Cliff

Robertson AUA has always been there

for us Thanks AUA

- Ken amp Beverly Hyde

The above photograph does not represent on endorsement by Cliff Robertson of AUA Inc

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Remember Were SeHer Togetherf

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DIRECTORS EMERITUS

Gene Chase EE Buck Hilbert 2159 Carlton Rd PO Bex424

Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 815923-4591920231-5002

e-mail buck7acmcnet

ADVISORS David Bennett Alan Shackleton 11741 Wolf Rd PO Bex656

Grass Valiey CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 530268-1585 630466-4193

antiquerinreochcom 1033461772CorrpJSafVecom

Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions

Copyright copy2000 by the EM Antage Aircraft Association All rights reserved

VINTAGE AIRPLANE (lSSN 0091-6943) IPM 1482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Associalion and is published monlhly al EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WIS4903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at ieast two months tor delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail ADVERTISING - Antage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be lakenEDrrORlAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to submil Siories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in ariKles are sltgteIy those of the authors ResponsitgtliIy for accuracy in reporting resls entirely with the contribut()( No renumeralion ~ made Material should be sent to Ed()( VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Phone 920426-4800

The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WtTH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EM EAA tNTERNATIONAl CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarllts THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVentur are Iradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited

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NEW MEMBERS Murray Horton

middot Yarmouth County NS Canada

Robert Bondy

middot Windsor ONT Canada

Kenneth Ross Gunby

middot Carlisle ONT Canada

jean Paul Batardy

middot Escau Doeuvres France

Alois Drexler

middot Wackersdorf Germany

Stefan Volz

middot Bad Koenigshofen Germany

Giuseppe Braga Bologna Italy

Tatsui Kamijikkoku Kyoto japan

Andrew Vincent

middot Rolleston New Zealand

Francisco Villa

middot Rivas-Vaciamadrid Spain

john K Emmons

middot Eglisau Switzerland

joseph D Dolce Birmingham AL

Dale Morgan Mccalla AL

john Flyul11 Springdale AR

Bary L Gills Gurdon AR

Porter F Schultz Bouse AZ

Robert Altieri Healdsburg CA

Roger D Farnes Riverside CA

jim Hays Alameda CA

james Long San Marcos CA

Bruce A McElhoe Reedley CA

George Parry Ventura CA

joseph Ruh Playa Del Rey CA

Leonard Sokolowski

middot Pacific Grove CA

Stephen A Woldin Santa Paula CA

Chrisj Woods Tiburon CA

Paul C Andes Littleton CO

Michael L Kaessner Longmont CO

Robert A McKown Vail CO

David W Olson Grand junction CO

Danny R Wine Denver CO

Edward Charles Monoski Kent CT

Chris H Becker Panama City FL

Mike E Branand Ft Pierce FL

Frank T Cvelbar Port Charlotte FL

L Bar Eisenhauer

middot Winter Haven FL

Frederick F Evans Naples FL

Richard R Hodge jr

middot Ft Lauderdale FL

Stephen M Huse Longboat Key FL

Greg A Leaf Hawthorne FL

julian B MacQueen

middot Gulf Breeze FL

Daniel Melnik Melbourne FL

jim Quigley Naples FL

Steve Whittenberger

middot Daytona Beach FL

Robert A Wiederhold

Pembroke Pines FL

Dave Benjamin Lookout Mountain GA

Lloyd Blackwell Marietta GA

Robert j Collins Sr Boston GA

Eric L Hendrix jasper GA

Douglas S Lambert

Lawrenceville GA

Donald E Lumsden Morrow GA

Robert G Ridgeway Marietta GA

Mark Steele Valdosta GA

joe Morano Eastport ID

Thor Farrow Lake Zurich IL

Gregg W Pearson Waukegan IL

Frederick L Conley ValparaiSO IN

Glen H Sherretz Evansville IN

Steve Briggs Lake Charles LA

joseph Griffin E Falmouth MA

Wm Mahlon Entler Baltimore MD

Vincent] jordan Cristfield MD

Roy C Kronquist Marquette MI

Richard R Reichenbach

middot Bay City MI

Dennis Schwecke Highland MI

Mark A Marino Duluth MN

Scott Smith jordan MN

Terry L Harlow Kearney MO

Walter E Bell Forsyth MT

Dave Austin Mooresville NC

james Russell Mabe

Walnut Cove NC

Ronald L Normark Raleigh NC

Sherill Woods Brevard NC

Miles H Dunn Portsmouth NH

F S Gilbert Somersworth NH

james R Stow Surf City Nj

Norman L Rowland

Las Vegas NY

George M Alliegro Orient NY

Dennis Hitchcock Maplecrest NY

Ted W Zabinski Altamont NY

jon David Brausch Avon Lake OH

Don Fricke Dayton OH

Gail E Townsend Lowell OH

Dwight Reynolds

Oklahoma City OK

Edward Mason Portland OR

Robert B Mercatoris Meadville PA

B Richard Monroe Landale PA

jim Noonan Fort Washington PA

[van B Armstrong Anderson SC

Benjamin Dubois Goose Creek SC

David M Curtis Millington TN

Donald H Litton Millington TN

Ralph Mallicoat jr Lebanon TN

james Bromstead Allen TX

Louis W Hastings Boerne TX

jim Wilson Allen TX

Owen Eugene Yarbrough Euless TX

William G Reinecke Reston VA

Bruce Troxell Alexandria VA

Ralph K Williamson jr

Edmonds W A

Leigh H Ullman

Port Washington WI

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

Northwest Experimental Aircraft Association Fly-In

ARLI N The Wests Premier EAA Event

JULY 5 - 9 _11_ middot ANiIJQlJl S bull U~RlLIGBfS

Y~~~es bull HELICOPJiEB bull WIBIIBDS bull Aircraft fly-bys ampAirshow everyday bull Exhibits - Forums - Fly Market bull Aircraft Judging amp Awards bull Family Activities - Camping bull Outdoor Runway Theater each evening bull Hot Air Balloon Rally bull Homebuilders Workshop

FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL

FLY-IN 360-435-5857 e-mail flyinnweaaorg wwwnweaaorg 4700 188th St NE Arlington WA 98223

FAX 360-435-6480 Sponsored in part by agrant from the Snohomish Hotel Motel Tax Fund

SNOHOM ISH COU NT Y

bull Close t o everything Far from ordinary

TN GL~ ~X~WA~ TG Gn~

like having an instructor right there with you And if youd like some hands-on coaching Dont be afraid to tackle that fabric try one of our workshops Theres also a covered project Learn how much step-by-step video a kit for practicing with fun it really is Call Poly-Fiber and Poly-Fiber and a website full of information lets get started

~GU~ AX~PLA Of ~ourse if youre planning to actually fJ~ it the easiest way is still Poly-Fiber ~hy Poly-Fiber Because for 30 years builders have followed easy steps and achieved safe superlative long-lasting results Poly-Fiber products I W

are painstakingly manufactured and ~ () proven over time and the manual is almost ((

V Genuinely easy to use 800-362-3490V Toll-iree technical support V The best how-to manual around wwwpolyfibercom

e-mail infopolyfibercom

V Step-by-step video also available V Hands-on workshops nationwide

FAX909-fJ84-0S18 Aircraf1 Coa1ings

Ken Hyde

Warrenton VA

Founded antique

aircraft restoration firm

Virginia Aviation Co

in 1965

American Airlines pilot -

1965 to 1997

Co-founder of Ken and Beverly Hyde with Cliff Robertson during the filming of EAAs Young Eagles

The Wright Experiment

AUAis

approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612

Whether it is flying the Jenny to

Oshkosh with Charlie Kulp or filming

EAAs Young Eagles with Cliff

Robertson AUA has always been there

for us Thanks AUA

- Ken amp Beverly Hyde

The above photograph does not represent on endorsement by Cliff Robertson of AUA Inc

The best is affordable

Give AUA a call - its FREE

800-727-3823 Fly with the pros f1y with AUA Inc

AUAs Exclusive EAA Vintage Aircraft Assoc Insurance Program

lower liability and hull premiums

Medical payments included

Fleet discounts for multiple aircraft carryin ~ all risk coverages

No hand-pro ping exclusion

No age pen Ity

No compon nt parts endorsements

Discounts for claim-free renewals carryin all risk coverages

Remember Were SeHer Togetherf

AVtATION UNLIMITED AGENCY

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

Membershi~ Services Directon_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the

ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS President Vice-President

Esple Butch Joyce George Daubner PO Bex 35584 2448 Lough Lane

Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027 336393-0344 414673-5885

e-mail windsockaolcom e-moil antique2aolcom

TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nessa 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Lee MN 56007 918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom

DIRECTORS Robert C Bob Brauer Sfeve Krog

9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027

773779-2105 414966-7627 e-ma~ photopllotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom

John Berendt Robert D Bob Lumley 7645 Echo Point Rd 1265 Sooth 124th 51

Cannon Falis MN 55009 Brookfield WI 53005 5071263-2414 4141782-2633

e-mail John S Copeland lumperexecpccom 1 A Deacon Street

NorthbOrough MA 01532 Gene Morris 508393-4775 5936 Steve Court

e-moU Roanoke TX 76262 copeland l junocom 817491-9110

e-mail n03captfiashnet Phil Coulson

28415 Springbrook Dr Dean Richardson Lawton MI 49065 6701 Colony Dr

616624-6490 Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

Roger Gomoll darresprodcom 321-125 Broodway3 Rochester MN 55904 Geoff Robison

507288-2810 1521 E MacGregor Dr rgomollheritagehallsorg New Haven IN 46774

219493-4724 e-mail chlefl025ao1com

7724 Shody Hill Dr Indianapolis IN 46278 SH Wes Schmid

317293-4430 2359 Lefeber Avenue WCNWat= WI 53213

Joonnie Hill 414771-1545

Dale A Guslafson

PO Bex328 shschmidexecpccom Harvard IL 60033

815943-7205 dinghaoowcnet

BAA Vintage Aircraft Association ~ EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873 Web Site httpwwweaaorgand httpwwwairuentureorg E-Mail vintage eaaorg

EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM -700 PM Monday-Friday CST)

bull Newlrenew memberships EAA Divisions (Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirds) National Association of Flight Instructors (NAF)

bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships

Programs and Activities EAA AirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory 732-885-6711

Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 Buildlrestore information 920-426-4821 Chapters locatingorganizing 920-426-4876 Education 920-426-6815

bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships bull EAA Young Eagles Camps

Flight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Flight Instructor information 920-426-6801 Flying Start Program bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull 920-426-6847 Library ServicesiResearch 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Technical Counselors 920-426-4821 Young Eagles 920-426-4831

Benefits Aircraft Financing (Textron) 800-851-1367 AUA 800-727-3823 AVEMCO 800-638-8440 Term Life and Accidental 800-241-6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company)

Editorial Submitting articlephoto advertising information 920-426-4825 bullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-4828

EAA Aviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877 Financial Support 800-236-1025

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION available for $50 per year (SPORT AVIATION magshy

Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association EAA

azine not included) (Add $10 for Foreign

Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT Postage) AVIATION Family membership is available for an addishytional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 WARBIRDS years of age) is available at $23 annually All major Current EM members may join the EM Warbirds of

credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for America Division and receive WARBIRDS magazine

Foreign Postage) for an additional $35 per year EM Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds DivisionVINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is available for $45 per year (SPORT AVIATION Current EM members may join the Vintage Aircraft magazine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign

Associaton and receive VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashyPostage)

zine for an additional $27 per year EM Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE mag-azine EAA EXPERIMENTERand one year membership in the EM Vintage Airshy

Current EAA members may receive EAAcraft Association is available for $37 per year

EXPERIMENTER magazine for an additional $20 (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (Add per year $7 for Foreign Postage) EM Membership and EM EXPERIMENTER magshyazine is available for $30 per year (SPORT

lAC AVIATION magazine not inciuded)(Add $8 for ForshyCurrent EM members may join the International eign Postage) Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an additional $40 FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS per year Please submit your remittance with a check or EM Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine draft drawn on a United States bank payable in andone year membership in the lAC Division is United States dollars Add required Foreign

Postage amount for each membership

DIRECTORS EMERITUS

Gene Chase EE Buck Hilbert 2159 Carlton Rd PO Bex424

Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 815923-4591920231-5002

e-mail buck7acmcnet

ADVISORS David Bennett Alan Shackleton 11741 Wolf Rd PO Bex656

Grass Valiey CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 530268-1585 630466-4193

antiquerinreochcom 1033461772CorrpJSafVecom

Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions

Copyright copy2000 by the EM Antage Aircraft Association All rights reserved

VINTAGE AIRPLANE (lSSN 0091-6943) IPM 1482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Associalion and is published monlhly al EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WIS4903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at ieast two months tor delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail ADVERTISING - Antage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be lakenEDrrORlAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to submil Siories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in ariKles are sltgteIy those of the authors ResponsitgtliIy for accuracy in reporting resls entirely with the contribut()( No renumeralion ~ made Material should be sent to Ed()( VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Phone 920426-4800

The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WtTH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EM EAA tNTERNATIONAl CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarllts THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVentur are Iradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited

32 MAY 2000

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Ken Hyde

Warrenton VA

Founded antique

aircraft restoration firm

Virginia Aviation Co

in 1965

American Airlines pilot -

1965 to 1997

Co-founder of Ken and Beverly Hyde with Cliff Robertson during the filming of EAAs Young Eagles

The Wright Experiment

AUAis

approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612

Whether it is flying the Jenny to

Oshkosh with Charlie Kulp or filming

EAAs Young Eagles with Cliff

Robertson AUA has always been there

for us Thanks AUA

- Ken amp Beverly Hyde

The above photograph does not represent on endorsement by Cliff Robertson of AUA Inc

The best is affordable

Give AUA a call - its FREE

800-727-3823 Fly with the pros f1y with AUA Inc

AUAs Exclusive EAA Vintage Aircraft Assoc Insurance Program

lower liability and hull premiums

Medical payments included

Fleet discounts for multiple aircraft carryin ~ all risk coverages

No hand-pro ping exclusion

No age pen Ity

No compon nt parts endorsements

Discounts for claim-free renewals carryin all risk coverages

Remember Were SeHer Togetherf

AVtATION UNLIMITED AGENCY

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

Membershi~ Services Directon_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the

ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS President Vice-President

Esple Butch Joyce George Daubner PO Bex 35584 2448 Lough Lane

Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027 336393-0344 414673-5885

e-mail windsockaolcom e-moil antique2aolcom

TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nessa 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Lee MN 56007 918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom

DIRECTORS Robert C Bob Brauer Sfeve Krog

9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027

773779-2105 414966-7627 e-ma~ photopllotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom

John Berendt Robert D Bob Lumley 7645 Echo Point Rd 1265 Sooth 124th 51

Cannon Falis MN 55009 Brookfield WI 53005 5071263-2414 4141782-2633

e-mail John S Copeland lumperexecpccom 1 A Deacon Street

NorthbOrough MA 01532 Gene Morris 508393-4775 5936 Steve Court

e-moU Roanoke TX 76262 copeland l junocom 817491-9110

e-mail n03captfiashnet Phil Coulson

28415 Springbrook Dr Dean Richardson Lawton MI 49065 6701 Colony Dr

616624-6490 Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

Roger Gomoll darresprodcom 321-125 Broodway3 Rochester MN 55904 Geoff Robison

507288-2810 1521 E MacGregor Dr rgomollheritagehallsorg New Haven IN 46774

219493-4724 e-mail chlefl025ao1com

7724 Shody Hill Dr Indianapolis IN 46278 SH Wes Schmid

317293-4430 2359 Lefeber Avenue WCNWat= WI 53213

Joonnie Hill 414771-1545

Dale A Guslafson

PO Bex328 shschmidexecpccom Harvard IL 60033

815943-7205 dinghaoowcnet

BAA Vintage Aircraft Association ~ EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873 Web Site httpwwweaaorgand httpwwwairuentureorg E-Mail vintage eaaorg

EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM -700 PM Monday-Friday CST)

bull Newlrenew memberships EAA Divisions (Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirds) National Association of Flight Instructors (NAF)

bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships

Programs and Activities EAA AirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory 732-885-6711

Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 Buildlrestore information 920-426-4821 Chapters locatingorganizing 920-426-4876 Education 920-426-6815

bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships bull EAA Young Eagles Camps

Flight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Flight Instructor information 920-426-6801 Flying Start Program bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull 920-426-6847 Library ServicesiResearch 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Technical Counselors 920-426-4821 Young Eagles 920-426-4831

Benefits Aircraft Financing (Textron) 800-851-1367 AUA 800-727-3823 AVEMCO 800-638-8440 Term Life and Accidental 800-241-6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company)

Editorial Submitting articlephoto advertising information 920-426-4825 bullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-4828

EAA Aviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877 Financial Support 800-236-1025

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION available for $50 per year (SPORT AVIATION magshy

Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association EAA

azine not included) (Add $10 for Foreign

Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT Postage) AVIATION Family membership is available for an addishytional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 WARBIRDS years of age) is available at $23 annually All major Current EM members may join the EM Warbirds of

credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for America Division and receive WARBIRDS magazine

Foreign Postage) for an additional $35 per year EM Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds DivisionVINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is available for $45 per year (SPORT AVIATION Current EM members may join the Vintage Aircraft magazine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign

Associaton and receive VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashyPostage)

zine for an additional $27 per year EM Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE mag-azine EAA EXPERIMENTERand one year membership in the EM Vintage Airshy

Current EAA members may receive EAAcraft Association is available for $37 per year

EXPERIMENTER magazine for an additional $20 (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (Add per year $7 for Foreign Postage) EM Membership and EM EXPERIMENTER magshyazine is available for $30 per year (SPORT

lAC AVIATION magazine not inciuded)(Add $8 for ForshyCurrent EM members may join the International eign Postage) Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an additional $40 FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS per year Please submit your remittance with a check or EM Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine draft drawn on a United States bank payable in andone year membership in the lAC Division is United States dollars Add required Foreign

Postage amount for each membership

DIRECTORS EMERITUS

Gene Chase EE Buck Hilbert 2159 Carlton Rd PO Bex424

Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 815923-4591920231-5002

e-mail buck7acmcnet

ADVISORS David Bennett Alan Shackleton 11741 Wolf Rd PO Bex656

Grass Valiey CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 530268-1585 630466-4193

antiquerinreochcom 1033461772CorrpJSafVecom

Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions

Copyright copy2000 by the EM Antage Aircraft Association All rights reserved

VINTAGE AIRPLANE (lSSN 0091-6943) IPM 1482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Associalion and is published monlhly al EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WIS4903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at ieast two months tor delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail ADVERTISING - Antage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be lakenEDrrORlAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to submil Siories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in ariKles are sltgteIy those of the authors ResponsitgtliIy for accuracy in reporting resls entirely with the contribut()( No renumeralion ~ made Material should be sent to Ed()( VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Phone 920426-4800

The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WtTH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EM EAA tNTERNATIONAl CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarllts THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVentur are Iradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited

32 MAY 2000

Page 33: VA-Vol-28-No-6-June-2000

Ken Hyde

Warrenton VA

Founded antique

aircraft restoration firm

Virginia Aviation Co

in 1965

American Airlines pilot -

1965 to 1997

Co-founder of Ken and Beverly Hyde with Cliff Robertson during the filming of EAAs Young Eagles

The Wright Experiment

AUAis

approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612

Whether it is flying the Jenny to

Oshkosh with Charlie Kulp or filming

EAAs Young Eagles with Cliff

Robertson AUA has always been there

for us Thanks AUA

- Ken amp Beverly Hyde

The above photograph does not represent on endorsement by Cliff Robertson of AUA Inc

The best is affordable

Give AUA a call - its FREE

800-727-3823 Fly with the pros f1y with AUA Inc

AUAs Exclusive EAA Vintage Aircraft Assoc Insurance Program

lower liability and hull premiums

Medical payments included

Fleet discounts for multiple aircraft carryin ~ all risk coverages

No hand-pro ping exclusion

No age pen Ity

No compon nt parts endorsements

Discounts for claim-free renewals carryin all risk coverages

Remember Were SeHer Togetherf

AVtATION UNLIMITED AGENCY

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

Membershi~ Services Directon_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the

ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS President Vice-President

Esple Butch Joyce George Daubner PO Bex 35584 2448 Lough Lane

Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027 336393-0344 414673-5885

e-mail windsockaolcom e-moil antique2aolcom

TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nessa 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Lee MN 56007 918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom

DIRECTORS Robert C Bob Brauer Sfeve Krog

9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027

773779-2105 414966-7627 e-ma~ photopllotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom

John Berendt Robert D Bob Lumley 7645 Echo Point Rd 1265 Sooth 124th 51

Cannon Falis MN 55009 Brookfield WI 53005 5071263-2414 4141782-2633

e-mail John S Copeland lumperexecpccom 1 A Deacon Street

NorthbOrough MA 01532 Gene Morris 508393-4775 5936 Steve Court

e-moU Roanoke TX 76262 copeland l junocom 817491-9110

e-mail n03captfiashnet Phil Coulson

28415 Springbrook Dr Dean Richardson Lawton MI 49065 6701 Colony Dr

616624-6490 Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

Roger Gomoll darresprodcom 321-125 Broodway3 Rochester MN 55904 Geoff Robison

507288-2810 1521 E MacGregor Dr rgomollheritagehallsorg New Haven IN 46774

219493-4724 e-mail chlefl025ao1com

7724 Shody Hill Dr Indianapolis IN 46278 SH Wes Schmid

317293-4430 2359 Lefeber Avenue WCNWat= WI 53213

Joonnie Hill 414771-1545

Dale A Guslafson

PO Bex328 shschmidexecpccom Harvard IL 60033

815943-7205 dinghaoowcnet

BAA Vintage Aircraft Association ~ EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873 Web Site httpwwweaaorgand httpwwwairuentureorg E-Mail vintage eaaorg

EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM -700 PM Monday-Friday CST)

bull Newlrenew memberships EAA Divisions (Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirds) National Association of Flight Instructors (NAF)

bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships

Programs and Activities EAA AirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory 732-885-6711

Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 Buildlrestore information 920-426-4821 Chapters locatingorganizing 920-426-4876 Education 920-426-6815

bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships bull EAA Young Eagles Camps

Flight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Flight Instructor information 920-426-6801 Flying Start Program bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull 920-426-6847 Library ServicesiResearch 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Technical Counselors 920-426-4821 Young Eagles 920-426-4831

Benefits Aircraft Financing (Textron) 800-851-1367 AUA 800-727-3823 AVEMCO 800-638-8440 Term Life and Accidental 800-241-6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company)

Editorial Submitting articlephoto advertising information 920-426-4825 bullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-4828

EAA Aviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877 Financial Support 800-236-1025

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION available for $50 per year (SPORT AVIATION magshy

Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association EAA

azine not included) (Add $10 for Foreign

Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT Postage) AVIATION Family membership is available for an addishytional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 WARBIRDS years of age) is available at $23 annually All major Current EM members may join the EM Warbirds of

credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for America Division and receive WARBIRDS magazine

Foreign Postage) for an additional $35 per year EM Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds DivisionVINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is available for $45 per year (SPORT AVIATION Current EM members may join the Vintage Aircraft magazine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign

Associaton and receive VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashyPostage)

zine for an additional $27 per year EM Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE mag-azine EAA EXPERIMENTERand one year membership in the EM Vintage Airshy

Current EAA members may receive EAAcraft Association is available for $37 per year

EXPERIMENTER magazine for an additional $20 (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (Add per year $7 for Foreign Postage) EM Membership and EM EXPERIMENTER magshyazine is available for $30 per year (SPORT

lAC AVIATION magazine not inciuded)(Add $8 for ForshyCurrent EM members may join the International eign Postage) Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an additional $40 FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS per year Please submit your remittance with a check or EM Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine draft drawn on a United States bank payable in andone year membership in the lAC Division is United States dollars Add required Foreign

Postage amount for each membership

DIRECTORS EMERITUS

Gene Chase EE Buck Hilbert 2159 Carlton Rd PO Bex424

Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 815923-4591920231-5002

e-mail buck7acmcnet

ADVISORS David Bennett Alan Shackleton 11741 Wolf Rd PO Bex656

Grass Valiey CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 530268-1585 630466-4193

antiquerinreochcom 1033461772CorrpJSafVecom

Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions

Copyright copy2000 by the EM Antage Aircraft Association All rights reserved

VINTAGE AIRPLANE (lSSN 0091-6943) IPM 1482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Antage Aircraft Association of the Experimental Aircraft Associalion and is published monlhly al EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WIS4903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at ieast two months tor delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surlace mail ADVERTISING - Antage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertiSing so that corrective measures can be lakenEDrrORlAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to submil Siories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in ariKles are sltgteIy those of the authors ResponsitgtliIy for accuracy in reporting resls entirely with the contribut()( No renumeralion ~ made Material should be sent to Ed()( VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Phone 920426-4800

The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WtTH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EM EAA tNTERNATIONAl CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarllts THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVentur are Iradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited

32 MAY 2000

Page 34: VA-Vol-28-No-6-June-2000

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

Membershi~ Services Directon_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the

ASSOCIATION

OFFICERS President Vice-President

Esple Butch Joyce George Daubner PO Bex 35584 2448 Lough Lane

Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027 336393-0344 414673-5885

e-mail windsockaolcom e-moil antique2aolcom

TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nessa 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Lee MN 56007 918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom

DIRECTORS Robert C Bob Brauer Sfeve Krog

9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027

773779-2105 414966-7627 e-ma~ photopllotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom

John Berendt Robert D Bob Lumley 7645 Echo Point Rd 1265 Sooth 124th 51

Cannon Falis MN 55009 Brookfield WI 53005 5071263-2414 4141782-2633

e-mail John S Copeland lumperexecpccom 1 A Deacon Street

NorthbOrough MA 01532 Gene Morris 508393-4775 5936 Steve Court

e-moU Roanoke TX 76262 copeland l junocom 817491-9110

e-mail n03captfiashnet Phil Coulson

28415 Springbrook Dr Dean Richardson Lawton MI 49065 6701 Colony Dr

616624-6490 Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

Roger Gomoll darresprodcom 321-125 Broodway3 Rochester MN 55904 Geoff Robison

507288-2810 1521 E MacGregor Dr rgomollheritagehallsorg New Haven IN 46774

219493-4724 e-mail chlefl025ao1com

7724 Shody Hill Dr Indianapolis IN 46278 SH Wes Schmid

317293-4430 2359 Lefeber Avenue WCNWat= WI 53213

Joonnie Hill 414771-1545

Dale A Guslafson

PO Bex328 shschmidexecpccom Harvard IL 60033

815943-7205 dinghaoowcnet

BAA Vintage Aircraft Association ~ EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873 Web Site httpwwweaaorgand httpwwwairuentureorg E-Mail vintage eaaorg

EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM -700 PM Monday-Friday CST)

bull Newlrenew memberships EAA Divisions (Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirds) National Association of Flight Instructors (NAF)

bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships

Programs and Activities EAA AirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory 732-885-6711

Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 Buildlrestore information 920-426-4821 Chapters locatingorganizing 920-426-4876 Education 920-426-6815

bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships bull EAA Young Eagles Camps

Flight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Flight Instructor information 920-426-6801 Flying Start Program bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull 920-426-6847 Library ServicesiResearch 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Technical Counselors 920-426-4821 Young Eagles 920-426-4831

Benefits Aircraft Financing (Textron) 800-851-1367 AUA 800-727-3823 AVEMCO 800-638-8440 Term Life and Accidental 800-241-6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company)

Editorial Submitting articlephoto advertising information 920-426-4825 bullbullbullbullbullbull FAX 920-426-4828

EAA Aviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877 Financial Support 800-236-1025

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION available for $50 per year (SPORT AVIATION magshy

Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association EAA

azine not included) (Add $10 for Foreign

Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT Postage) AVIATION Family membership is available for an addishytional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 WARBIRDS years of age) is available at $23 annually All major Current EM members may join the EM Warbirds of

credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for America Division and receive WARBIRDS magazine

Foreign Postage) for an additional $35 per year EM Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds DivisionVINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is available for $45 per year (SPORT AVIATION Current EM members may join the Vintage Aircraft magazine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign

Associaton and receive VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashyPostage)

zine for an additional $27 per year EM Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE mag-azine EAA EXPERIMENTERand one year membership in the EM Vintage Airshy

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