va-vol-35-no-8-aug-2007

GEOFF ROBISO N PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

Volunteers and speaking up The big show is now only days away

and I am busy preparing myself to be gone from the office for an extended period of time In fact I will be in Oshkosh for a total of 19 days on this trip Our annual July Vintage Aircraft Association (VAA) work party is set for the weekend ofjuly 13-15 this year

It amazes me each year the number of individuals who will travel hundreds of miles to engage themselves in the always-extensive efforts to prepare the grounds at Wittman Field for each EM AirVenture in Oshkosh Wisconsin The VM will typically schedule at least three different volunteer work weekends and we will see dozens of individuals arrive solely for the purpose of volunteering their personal time to prepare the Vintage area of the convention grounds That s not to mention the dozens of folks who will arrive as early as April and actually stay right through AirVenture volunteering their time performing a myriad of duties

As you can imagine a fair amount of these folks are retired and find this sort of volunteering rewarding EAA has been so successful in upholding our founders long-standing goal of maintaining the EAA grounds to an extremely high standard due in large part to the efforts of all these fine individuals who give thousands of hours of volunteer time

One great story I have told many members time and again and Ill share it with you It occurred in Camp Scholler during last years event As many of you know the 2006 event was the first year that Ford Motor Company and Eclipse Aviation sponsored movie night in the campground The owner of the company who operates this

outdoor theater was reportedly shocked and amazed when the movie ended and the hundreds of happy campers got up to leave Typically the owner hires several individuals to do cleanup of the theater area at the end of each evening His amazement was based on the fact that when everyone left typical to EMs high standards there was virtually no trash or debris left behind for his crew to clean up In a normal evening his crew would work several hours policing the area of all the trash This gentleman has been providing this outdoor theater service for many years and had never witnessed a phenomenon of this sort in all that time That certainly speaks volumes about our fellow members and your strong support of EMs high standards of quality and cleanliness

The issue of user fees for general aviation continues to be big news in most all of the aviation publications Are you getting the feeling as I am that the virtual camel has now successfully managed to get its very large nose under the tent flap by imposing a number of new and more expensive user fees If the ATA and FAA win user fees are certain to impact all of us Want specifics These fees include additional gas taxes and paperwork fees that will increase what you and I will pay to fly Even the no-radio winged machinery we like to fly around the patch will be impacted the justification for these fees are all wrapped in the flag of fairness We should all be concerned and we should continue to voice our opposition to our elected officials

Some pilots would say these new fees are small and mostly insignificant increases in the overall big picture of what the costs will eventually become

for us to stay airborne However based on the volume and extensiveness of the rhetoric we continue to hear from the airlines and the current administration I strongly suspect that we are beginning to see only a small portion of what is likely to be a large iceberg that is being developed inside the beltway Do we really want to see a fee-based system based on a European model Look what its done to limit civilian aviation on that side of the Atlantic

The airlines are determined to shift as much of the expense of the system to as many of the hobbyist non-revenue aviators as they possibly can What can we little guys do What should our reaction be and how can we be as effective as possible in combating these burdensome changes The best approach I can recommend is for us all to remain vocal In fact at this point we need to do even more by turning up the volume and continuing to inform our representatives that these changes are overly burdensome and expensive Yes I would agree that a number of our representatives have really done a good job of supporting general aviation So lets encourage them to do even more My other recommendation to each of you is to continue to support the voices of advocacy through your continued membership to the EAA and the Vintage Aircraft Association Please remember we truly are better together acting in unison to maintain our rights to freely access the system as unrestricted as safety allows

Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Remember we are better together Join us and have it all

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AG N E AUGUST

VOL 35 No8 2007

CONTENTS I Fe Straight amp Level

Volunteers and speaking up by Geoff Robison

2 News

5 Lockheed 12A The Whittlesey familys 68-year-old limo by Budd Davisson

10 The Golden West EAA Regional Fly-In Look whats growing in Californias Central Valley by HG Frautschy

15 What Our Members Are Restoring

18 Woolaroc The Winner of the 1929 Dole Race by Ed Phillips

25 Getting Your AampP Rating Part II - Long-in-the-tooth AampP students by Dave Clark

30 Pass It to Buck Change in the air by Buck Hilbert

34 The Vintage Instructor There are two emergency exits on this PA-12 aircraft by Doug Stewart

STAFF 36 Mystery Plane EAA Publisher Tom Poberezny

by HG Frautschy Director of EAA Publications David Hipschman Executive DirectorEditor HG Frautschy

38 Calendar Executive Assistant Jillian Rooker Managing Editor Kathleen Witman News Editor Ric Reynolds39 Classified Ads Photography Jim Koepnick

Bonnie Kratz Advertising Coordinator Sue Anderson Classified Ad Coordinator Daphene VanHullum Copy Editor Colleen Walsh Director of Advertising Katrina Bradshaw

Display Advertising RepresentativesCOVERS Northeast Allen Murray

FRONT COVER ampBACK COVER The winner of the Grand Champion Antique Lindy at Phone 856-229-7180 FAX 856-229-7258 e-mail allellmllrraymilldsprillgcom

Southeast Chester BaumgartnerEM AirVenture Oshkosh 2006 Grand Champion Antique at the Sun n Fun Fly-In and the Phone 727-532-4640 FAX 727-532-4630 e-mail cballllllllmilldsprillgcom

winner of the Paul E Garber Trophy at the National Aviation Heritage Invitational in Reno in Central Todd Reese Phone 800-444-9932 FAX 816-741-6458 e-mail toddSpc-magcom

2006 this is Les Whittleseys Lockheed 12E Electra Junior restored to perfection and used Mountain amp Pacific John Gibson Phone 916-784-9593 e-mail johllgibsollSpc-magcomby the family as the u~imate in personal transportation Front cover photo by Bonnie Kratz Europe Willi Tacke

Back cover by EM volunteer photographer Phil High Phone +498969340213 FAX +498969340214 e-mail wi1lilyillg-pagescom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE

VAA Board Expands Contemporary Judging Category

The VM Contemporary judging catshyegory has been expanded to include aircraft built up to December 31 1970 from December 311967 This change made by the EM Vintage Aircraft Assoshyciations board of directors gives EM and VM members who have restored many of the capable personal aircraft of the late 1960s an opportunity to parshyticipate in EAAs world-class judging program This distinction also allows those aircraft to be insured through VAAs aircraft insurance program adshyministered by AUA Inc

Effective starting with this years EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007 the VAAs internationally recognized judging categories are

- Antique Aircraft built prior to September I 1945

- Classic September I 1945 - Deshycember 31 1955

- Contemporary January I 1956shyDecember 31 1970

Rim Roller Pete Gorman of Lake Worth Florshy

ida wrote to us looking for someone who could form a unique tire rim Petes building a Fokker D-VII replica and needed to make a pair of 23- by 275-inch rims As so often happens as soon as he wrote us he found someone with the adjustable rimshyforming machine he needed and he wanted to let the rest of the membershyship know of his find The company is AutoComponenti in Brookville Ohio call 937-884-5142 or visit www AutoComponenticom

Bristol Jupiter Engine David Saunders called from Hunshy

gary to ask if we could get the word out concerning a need for an engine for a Gloster Gamecock restoration Hes in need of a Bristol Jupiter either a 6 or 7 Hes also looking for a Klimov M-105PF or M-I07 Both are needed for current restorations Contact D Saunders (Accountable Manager) Legshy2 AUGUST 2007

EAA Chapter 10 Makes VAA Friends of the Red Bam Donation

Vintage Aircraft Association Chapter 10 Tulsa has been a Friends of the Red Barn (FORB) contributor since its origin always contributing at the top level each year of the program s existence This year the chapter is a Diamond Plus contributor For more information on the VAA FORB program please visit httpVintageAircraftorgprogramsredbarnhtml or call 920-426-6110

The chapter is actively involved with all sport aviation activities in the Tulsa area It is a co-sponsor of the Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In www TulsaFlylncom as well as strong volunteer supporters of the Biplane Expo The chapter has co-hosted the EAA B-17 Aluminum Overcast for all of its Tulsa tour stops as well as the Ford Tri-Motor in 2006 and it will host the Tri-Motor on its 2007 tour on September 13-16 2007

The Tulsa EAA chapters are unique in that they are all Chapter 1O-in addition to VAA Chapter 10 the other Tulsa chapters include EAA Chapter 10 lAC Chapter 10 Ultralight Chapter 10 and Warbird Squadron 10

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New Handheld Computers to Aid Aircraft Judging

This years AirVenture aircraft judgshying process has received a major upshygrade and a new technical sponsor

EM member John Craparo a senior vice president with Hewlett-Packard (H-P) mentioned his willingness to help EAA in any way possible during conversations with EAAs development department and EM President Tom Poshyberezny Craparo was able to introduce Jeff Kaufman EAAs director of busishyness development to the right folks at

H-P which resulted in EM receiving a considerable discount from H-P on the purchase of 150 of the companys iPaq handheld computers

After volunteer Rob Reece proshygrams the units EAA aircraft judges will use them to enter the scores of each judged aircraft beginning this year at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

Since the inception of EMs comshyputerized registration program weve used handheld computers in this apshyplication with varying levels of sucshycess said HG Frautschy executive director of EMs Vintage Aircraft Asshysociation who oversaw the processes within EAA headquarters to purchase new units Were very grateful for HshyPs generosity of and their willingness to make these new units available to

Comet Model News DVD Id bet that the vast majority of our members started out in aviation by

build ing models when they were young Before World War II the Comet

Model Airplane amp Supply Company was one of the most prolific churning

out thousands of kits sold by more than 6000 dealers worldwide There

were not too many million dollar businesses built during the depths of the

Great Depression but Comet was one that made it big Bill Bibichkow and

Sam Goldenberg began their business in the back of Bi lls father s tailor

shop on the near west side of Chicago They made a profit from the very

beginning with innovative designs that flew well and could be constructed

by youngsters of nearly all ages

One of the 300 employees who worked for Comet during those heady

days was Eddie Kapitanoff who served as the company s West Coast

salesman In addition to being an effective salesman Edd ie had a hobby

that served to preserve Comets history he was an avid photographer

skilled with both a sti ll camera and movie film This treasure trove of mateshy

rial dormant in the family collection for many years served as the basis

for Nancy Kapitanoffs short documentary The Comet Model News now

available on DVD Ms Kapitanoff is the daughter of Eddie and his wife

Comet s former bookkeeper Using the information from the company

newsletters that Nancys mother saved Nancy has skillfully woven the

stills and movie footage shot by both her father and Bill Bibichkow (includshy

ing Kapitanoffs rare color footage of Carl Goldberg fly ing his Zipper durshy

ing his national tour in the mid-1930s) into a fun look back at an amazing

time in aviation The Comet Model News is a fasc inating glimpse into a

business that helped create a legion of aviation enthusiasts who continue

to keep aviation alive In addition there s a bonus 12-minute silent blackshy

and-white film of 13-year-old Walter Eckart building a Comet lO-cent kit of

a Stinson and flying it in a park after hes done building Great fun

The winner of the Best Short Film Documentary award at the Winnipeg

International Film Festival in 2006 The Comet Model News is available

for $1995 plus shipping and handling from Hannan s Runway wwwHRunshy

way com or mail an SASE to Hannan s Runway PO Box 210 Magalia CA

95954 You can also call 530-873-6421 to order a copy Please be conshy

siderate of the time its in the western time zone

us The new units will streamline the judging process and take what is alshyready the world standard for aircraft judging to even greater heights

H-P is also now the new technolshyogy sponsor of the EAA Aircraft Judgshying Program AeroShell Flight Jacket is the official sponsor of the judging

EAAs New Video Player is one for all

Perhaps you were one of the thoushysands of members who attended EAA AirVenture or you missed it this year and you want to see what you missed

Whichever the case we invite you to visit the EAA AirVenture webshysite at your earliest convenience and check out the new video player there Hosted by a company called Brightcove and sponsored by Microshysoft and RotorWay its available 247 The player allows aviation enthusishyasts around the world to experience AirVenture wherever and whenever they want

One of its features allows viewers to also be producers EAA members can upload their own videos providing a potentially endless variety of pershyspectives on the world of flight and naturally were expecting a lot of subshymissions from this years AirVenture

The first user submission arrived just a few days after the player was made available online at wwwAirVentureorg US Air Force Maj Paul Max Moga an F-22 pilot who is slated to fly one of the advanced fighter aircraft at Osshyhkosh this year posted a five-minute clip showing a recent air show demonshystration of the airplane

That in itself shows how great this new web tool can be said Adam Smith EAA vice president of outshyreach We announced the new web player in mid-June and less than a week later one of the scheduled parshyticipants posted his own preview video to the AirVenture site How cool is that

Check out the daily content posted during the convention including AirshyVenture news updates and highlights historical flashbacks interviews hushyman-interest stories forums and preshysentations air show performances

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Reach for the Sky At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2007

a Learn to Fly Center staffed by EAA

and the National Association of Flight

Instructors provides inspiration and inshy

formation for those who desire to learn

to fly but havent yet realized their

dream As part of that outreach EAA

produced a new publication Reach for

the Sky which explains the process

of learning to fly The new piece also

includes a guide to ali of the available

special light-sport aircraft

Reach for the Sky is also now

available in PDF format to download

from wwwEAAorg so you can share

a copy with your friends who might

be interested in learning to fly Aviashy

tion newcomers are faced with the

potentially intimidating jargon of flyshy

ing airport fences and the attitude

of exclusivity exhibited by some pilots

Reach for the Sky is EAAs effort to

remove these and other barriers and invite more people into the community

of flight EAAers share

and more Post-convention EAA will start integrating the player into all its websites including new videos as well as content from the massive multishymedia treasure trove created over the organizations 54-year history

This is more than the simple adshydition of a new feature this is an exshyciting new dimension in how EAA shares valuable knowledge and inshyformation among our community of aviation enthusiasts said EAA Presishydent Tom Poberezny Our members

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and the public are seeking richer and more immediate multimedia content delivered via the Internet

Other features The Brightcove player has a built-in syndication comshyponent allowing any EAA member or chapter to host the video player on a website blog or other web-based medium Other enhanced features include an RSS (really simple syndishycation) feed sharing content with friends via e-mail and imbedding individual clips into your own blogs and websites

Its available right now All you need is a broadband Internet connecshytion and the Macromedia Flash player installed on your computer Log on and tune in at wwwAirVenturearg

FAA Issues Young Eagles Exclusion to Air Tour Rule Requirements

The FAA delivered on a promise made earlier in the year by issuing an amendment to the National Air Tour Safety Standards rule to specifically exshyclude EAA Young Eagles flights from the rules tighter requirements As originally written the rule would have adversely affected the Young Eagles program by limiting what aircraft could be used as well as placing additional restrictions on pilot qualifications and frequency of Young Eagles activities

Of course EAA already received the exclusion in February in the form of a letter from FAA headquarters to EAA President Tom Poberezny That letter stated that the rule does not apply to Young Eagles flights where the pilot does not receive compensation

The amendment was issued June 7 just two days before EAAs Intershynational Young Eagles Day It states During development of the Nashytional Air Tour Safety Standards final rule we believed that the Experimenshytal Aircraft Association (EAA) used its FAA-issued exemptions for all flights conducted under its Young Eagles program Since publication of the fishynal rule however we have learned that EAA uses its exemptions only for those few Young Eagles flights that are flown for compensation or hire We therefore clarify that the fishy

nal rule applies to only Young Eagles flights that are flown for compensashytion or hire but the rule does not apshyply to other Young Eagles flights

Good 01 Days Pioneer Airport EAA Pioneer Airports annual livshy

ing aviation history event Good 01 Days is August 18-19 bringing the excitement and adventure of aviashytions golden age back to life

Good 01 Days features a family activity center where kids will have the opportunity to play games that were popular back in the day A vashyriety of vintage vehicles on display add to the experience and attendees will have a chance to ride around the EAA grounds in a Vintage preshyWWll vehicle Other activities inshyclude a time capsule opening pie eating and Charleston dance conshytests and special flightline displays and tours Pioneer staff and volunshyteers will be dressed in period cosshytume adding even more flavor to the event

Of course visitors can also take an airplane ride in one of EAAs fleet of Pioneer aircraft including the 1929 Ford Tri-Motor 1929 Travel Air bishyplane 1927 Swallow biplane and several Young Eagles airplanes Adshymission to EAA members is always free and Good 01 Days is included with regular museum admission for nonmembers

Whodunit Murder and intrigue abound at Pioshy

neer Airport can you solve the crime Take part in an all-new caper as

EAAs Aviation Murder Mystery Dinshyner returns August 17-18 in concert with the Good 01 Days weekend The plot During the buffet dinner a new artifact is dedicated at Pioneer Museum-a rare Quetzalcoatl-and a team of archeologists is anxious to hand over the precious piece to the museum But the rare piece may never make it into the collection

Tickets including dinner and the mystery are $30 for EAA members and $35 for nonmembers Make your reservations at wwwAirVentureMuseum arg or call 920-426-6880

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The cabins outstanding appointments extend to the cockshypit The center console includes a nifty cover duplicating the look of the old autopilot which covers the modem The stately cabin of the Whittlesey Lockheed is perfectly apshyradios when the aircraft is on display

and I took both Wacos across the US and barnstormed a bunch of Waco flyshyins and also made it to Oshkosh where the ZPF won a Bronze Lindy We called the trip 2001 A Biplane Odyssey The only thing better than flying across the US in a couple of biplanes is having your dad fly one of them

This is a man who isnt afraid to venshyture out in his old airplanes feeling that if they are properly maintained and were mechanically 100 percent at the beginning theres no reason they shouldnt rival a modern airplane for both utility and reliability Plus they have the added benefit of providing much classier transportation

I had always admired the polished 12A owned by Sandy and Kent Blanshykenburg but it wasnt until 96 when I saw serial number 1277 at the Staggershywing Fly-In at Bill Allens on Gillespie Field in San Diego that I saw them in a different light Little did I know that I would own the airplane someday I really liked the lines of the airplane as it was from that classic era of aviations Golden Age I put the thought of ownshying one day in the back of my mind and that where it stayed for several years as I was in the middle of the restoration of the ZPF-7

In 2002 my dad called and told me there was a Lockheed 12A for sale in Trade-A Plane I contacted the owner and sure enough it was the same ship I had seen in San Diego It seemed that the owner had passed away and his

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pointed for long-distance cruising

wife was very reluctant in putting the plane up for sale We started e-mailing back and forth about the plane and I finally made an offer that was rejected I e-mailed my best and final offer from work before the Thanksgiving holiday and left for the long weekend I came back into work and checked my e-mail and to find out that she had accepted my last offer When I told my wife I reassured her that this was not a projshyect that we had bought a flyer that just needed a little work She still periodishycally reminds me of that conversation even though she really loves what we did with the airplane

The Lockheed 12A is an interesting airplane if nothing else because it has a massive identity problem Far too many people mistake it for a Twin Beech which is frustrating for Lockheed ownshyers because to their eye the long lines and sleek chopped-windshield look of the nose sets the airplane entirely apart from the more common Beech

We get asked all the time if she is a Twin Beech says Whittlesey and we say No thats her ugly stepsister Although the two airplanes first flew only a little over a year apart the 12A was designed much earlier and a casual examination of its systems shows that it is much more of an antique than the Beech Still in its day the airplane was nothing short of phenomenal

The specific airplane Whittlesey had purchased SIN 1277 was built in 1939 and the next year was taken over by the

Treasury Department to become part of a Lend-Lease package headed for Engshyland She became part of the RAF and for the balance of the war did utility and liaison duties before being discharged in 1945 Rumor has it that even Winston Churchill rode in her

For the next 17 years she passed through a number of hands before beshycoming part of a short-haul airline in France being operated by a Monsieur Chapeau This was 1962 and for the next 20 years Monsieur Chapeau conshytinued flying 1277 all over Europe He would probably still be doing it but as he coasted past his 78th birthday the French government took an increasshyingly dim view of him continuing to act as chief pilot It would be nice to know more about characters such as Monsieur Chapeau because he wasnt about to sit on the ground while other people flew his airplanes So he unceremoniously shut down the airline and retired

A noted French aviation enthusishyast bought all the assets of the airline which included not only SI N 1277 but at least two other Lockheed 12As as well Shortly thereafter SIN 1277 moved to Greenville Maine where Lou Hilton continued to campaign for her at air shows Incidentally she didnt come over in the hold of a ship They simply strapped three 55-gallon drums to the floor in the fuselage and flew over After all she is an airplane

After several years Hilton needed some extensive work done on the airshy

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plane and it was sent to Florida In the process he decided to sell the airplane and it was bought by Dave Swanson who had the work finished

If youve been reading closely youll note that from 1939 until Whittlesey purchased her in 2002-a period of 63 years there were no significant dorshymant periods in the airplanes life It spent little or no time tied down colshylecting bird droppings In fact for the majority of its life SIN 1277 has been a working airplane This might be some kind of record

When Whittlesey was sitting at his computer in sunny Southern Califorshynia negotiating the purchase it was the dead of winter everywhere else in the country Especially in New Hampshire where the airplane was based This caused a problem Whittlesey hadnt reshyally conSidered as it would be one of the worst winters in years

Part of the deal was to have the airshyplane receive an annual When we ceshymented the deal it started snowing in New Hampshire and did not stop until spring There was so much snow on top of the hangar the roof sagged and the door would not open You could not get the airplane out to complete an anshynual and so there she sat until the folshylowing spring

I could not go out and get her so a family friend Captain Kirk Mcquown a good stick (he soloed 14 planes on his 16th birthday) and my dad flew back to pick her up When they were flying the airplane home they began to get an inkling of how tired the old girl was and when we started poking into her inshynards we really werent left any choice Every machine wears out and after 63 continuous years of use thats exactly what was happening to this one

When they pulled the wings off and started what they knew was going to be a long process one of the goals was to convert it back to civilian transport configuration from the C-40 the milishytary configuration it had carried for so many years More than that Whittleshysey wanted to make it as period-correct as he could and still have it be a viable piece of transportation and not a mushyseum piece

As is always the case when you start

One unique aspect of the retractable landing gear is the factory addition of a pair of mud guards installed on the gear In the interest of maintainabilmiddot ity Whittlesey installed Twin Beech tires wheels and brakes to replace the nearly impossible to find air wheels and original brakes

working with an aluminum airframe that is more than six decades old an interesting process takes place First you think that most of the aluminum is still flyable so youll replace only the panels that have corrosion or are reshyally beat up So you replace one Inshystantly the perfection of the new panel brings out previously unnoticed imshyperfections in the surrounding panels Although Whittlesey didnt say so in so many words the fact that he wanted to polish the airplane and quickly found so many more zits on it than he could live with led to a progressive re-skinshyning that included both outer wing panels all the flight controls and 80 percent of the fuselage

When we were doing the skinning in the interest of originality we used the peculiar brazier head rivets Lockheed used Whittlesey says We scoured the country for them and because they were so old they were really hard to rivet So we looked up how to properly heat treat them to make them soft and then kept them in the freezer until we were ready to use them as they would get hard

The nose features a forward baggage compartment but youll need a ladder to access it

again if left on the bench One interesting little side note surshy

faced during the re-skinning process They found flak damage from WWII in the left wing It was the result of the airplane being hit by friendly fire over Belgium

Since we had the airplane on stands and completely apart we pulled the landing gear and rebuilt and X-rayed every bit of it We also had brand new screw jacks machined since the old ones were getting pretty tired We went through everything and replaced all the electrical wiring fuel system and all the control cables Eighty percent of the pulleys had stopped turning and

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were being sawed through by the cables

A sticking poin t for Lockshy

(Left to right) Neil Whittlesey (Les father) Jim Heinemann project manager middotmiddotCaptain Kirk Me Quown flight Instnldor and c0shy

heed 12A owners is the main gear tires they arent easily available if at all The originals were smooth doughnut types and are no longer available

I didnt want to modify anyshything but the tires and brakes just werent going to work on a long-term basis While I love the look the old-style tires and brakes are impossible to come by and the last thing r wanted to worry about were odd tires and ancient brakes So we just bit the bullet and went with Twin Beech tires wheels and brakes They arent original but r can service them and dont have to worry about them

Totally remanufacturing (not restoring) an airplane like a Lockshyheed 12A isnt something you take on solo and Whittlesey recognized that As much as he would have liked to be able to say I did it all myself regardless of his abilities in the workshop that just wasnt practical

liMy crew and r set up a little operashytion on Chino they called The Lockshyheed Stinkworks and the slogan was Where airplanes are restored to udder perfection This is in reference to the dairies that surround the airport and can usually be smelled They even had an cartoon character dairy cow drawn up like the Lockheed skunk

liMy brother-in-law Jim Heinemann took over as project manager coordishynating the various subcontractors we had working on the airplane He had

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median Lindy Whittlesey (14) Les his wife Susan Steve Dotson aircraft Allie Whittlesey (12) and Dave wanran_ craft restorer

delivered over a 100 airplanes for McshyDonnell Douglas and Boeing so he had plenty of experience in managing comshyplex airplanes We started this in 03 and flew three years later I could probshyably calculate how many hours we put into it but r really dont want to know rknow its in the tens of thousands and thats close enough All I know for sure is that it was a lot Everyone asks How much money do you have in the airshyplane and r say It is in the 2s Too much

One of the major problems in a projshyect like this is where you draw the line as to what should be done The short answer is you dont Since the airplane is such a piece of history and so visually arresting you really cant look at someshything and say Thats good enough

In the decades prior to World War II the Sportsman Pilots Association creshyated crests for use by the members on their aircraft Whittlesey decided that in the same spirit hed create one for his family The W is seNmiddotexplanatory and the LS stand for Les and Susan his wife The LA stands for their daughters Lindy and Allison Lindy is named for Charles Lindbergh and Alshylison for the great World War II fighter engine of the same name

liThe cowlings on the airplane were perfectly usable but when youre lookshying at a round motored airplane whats the first thing that catches your eye The motors right So the cowlings had to be redone which opened an entire can of worms because you dont just go to your local scrap yard and come up with a set of Lockheed 12A cowlings They were a very specific shape and the only way we were going to get them was by building our own We teamed up with Yanks Air Museum at Chino which owns a C-40 the only military version flying Along with three other owners we made a die and stretched formed blanks for five ship sets of cowls Of course once you have the skins you have to add all the internal structure which with Yanks we built enough parts for two airplanes We are really glad we did them and these will last way longer than the 63 years the first ones did

Airplanes and big cars of the 1930s shared a very distinct feel to their interishyors Whether it was Packard or Cadillac Lockheed or Stinson they all had an

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overstuffed limousine feel to them and to do the Lockheeds interior any other way would be cheating on the experishyence of flying in the airplane

The original floor boards were plyshywood sandwiches with balsa cores which of course dont carry much of a fire rating so we opted to go to alushyminum skins on a balsa core in those areas for safety reasons But for the upshyholstery and headliner we went strictly 1930s We used original factory photos for the location of changes in materials The headliner is the old mohair style while the sidewalls have a wooden belt strip like wainscoting running around the interior under the windows with leather up to that All the fabric was purchased from an antique auto inteshyrior company and then we had it fireshyproofed Yanks had a complete set of plans and we used those to rebuild all the seats which are all different at each location so not one is the same The plans were invaluable as we even copshyied where the welt cords went on the seats We even put the hat netting back in as everyone wore hats back then

Being a mini-airliner the 12A had a toilet and thats a story of its own

Considering how old the airplane is and how many owners had worked it it was pretty amazing to find it still had the original toilet While on the surface it was a little primitive it was pretty adshyvanced with spring-loaded doors and a vent attached to the back to suck out any fumes The bathroom even had an ashtray which I found amazing since the airplanes had the option to have two 50-gallon fuel tanks installed beshyhind the pilots for longer range Smokshying can be hazardous to your health especially when you are smoking next to fuel

When we got the airplane the door handles were off of a recreational vehishycle of some sort and obviously werent right However we also had original ads and photos so we could tell what the original door handles looked like So I took my pictures with me to the Pomona Antique Auto Swap Meet and started walking up and down the rows Two hours later 10 and behold I found two new old-stock handles still in their original bags

When Whittlesey did the instrushyment panel on his family liner he had another of those how original do I go decisions to make He wanted to fly this airplane as if it were a modern twin which meant including items that didnt exist in 1938

We really wanted to keep to the origshyinality of the time period of the aircraft while also including avionics that were provided for greater utility and safety One of the team Dave Waterman took out the entire control console and inshystrument panel and completely rebuilt them We reinstalled all the old instrushyments even down to the clock To make things as original as possible Dave even made a cover from the old 1939 autopishylot that we could place over the modern radios when we went to air shows This way we could have a functional panel and keep it looking original

It is amazing how small todays avishyonics are compared to the old ones Where the original autopilot was we were able to fit a Garmin GPS 480 an MX-20 with satellite weather a Mode S transponder a SL-40 second radio and the audio panel with marker beacon

As the restoration progressed Whittleshysey began to think about re-registering it because it carried a personalized N numshyber applied by a former owner Hilton

The airplane came out of the facshytory December 27 1939 registered as NC18900 A quick search showed that number was now on a Ryan SCW and the owner wasnt going to give it up I didnt want the personalized license plate look so I searched the FAA webshysite for available N numbers and came up with 18906 as it would layout the same size and be as close to the original number as possible

Being a stickler for authenticity is the goal of any restoration but it does have its downsides

By the time we were done Michelle Gruenburg the painter hated me It took us seven tries to get the logos and stripes right We were down to counting rivets on old photos and advertisements But I wanted her exactly like she came from the factory so it was important

Every project has some part that dogs the builder right to the end In the case of the Whittlesey L-12A it was the wingtips

Steve Dotson and Lefty McGluckshyian two very good sheet metal men at Chino worked on those wingtips right up to the first flight I think the paint on the bottom of the wingtip was even still tacky when they were put on That is one thing we dont want to ever have to do again and I think the guys would agree with me

The Whittlesey family is now enjoyshying their aerial limo The trip back from Oshkosh was the first trip the family had made in the plane as she had only seven hours on her when she left Chino for her first air show at Oshkosh The whole family participated on the return trip back with Susan his wife and his girls Lindy (14) and Allison (12)-yes they were named after Charles Lindshybergh and the Allison engine helping from the copilot seat in flying her back In fact all of the kids stick time has been in either the Wacos or the Lockshyheed Since then SN1277 has won the prestigious Paul E Garber Trophy at the National Aviation Heritage Invitational at the Reno Air Races

Still as perfect as the airplane apshypears is there anything that Whittlesey still feels isnt complete

Im still looking for an original lens that the red warning light on the nose used he says I had to make one out of acrylic and it looks right but it isnt right I have the Lockheed part number for the lens which is cast glass but still havent come up with one Also the airshyplane originally came with hat clips for the interior like on the back of chairs at old diners We would love to get some of those And lastly an original sales brochure and flight and maintenance manuals I have copies of those but having originals would be great

The concept was to build a safe comshyfortable piece of transportation that Whittlesey felt good entrusting his famshyily to and judging from the amount of flight time theyve already put on the airplane it looks as if he succeeded

People always ask After all that work and how rare the airplane is are you afraid to fly her My answer says Whittlesey is that you dont hang art in a closet so you need to fly these airshyplanes and get them out there so everyshyone can enjoy seeing them

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In

Dan Schurph of Placerville California has owned his Aeronca Sedan since the early 1970s Equipped with a seaplane door on the left side and supplemental type certificated metal fuel tanks hes hoping it will go to a family interested in a classic airplane as he has it up for sale It won the Champion Classic trophy

The best of the bunch in the antique category is Jerry Impellezzeris masterful restoration of a Travel Air E-4000 Well have an article on this outstanding restoration in a future issue of Vintage Airplane It was the winner of the Antique Grand Champion of the Golden West EAA Regional Fly-In

Mike Melvill and his wife Sally flew up in their Rutan Long-EZ for the day so Mike could be the speaker for the Saturday evening dinner His talk about the work at Scaled Comshyposites and on the SpaceShipOne program (no Mike couldnt fill us in on SpaceShipTwo-we tried) had the audience spellbound He was gracious as always doing his best to sign members programs until he had to depart the airport for their return trip to Mojave where he and Sally had to get back to work

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The newest of the EAA regional

fly-ins has moved around abit in

the Central Valley of California an

area known as one of the most

fertile vegetable- and fruit-

growing regions of the United

States The weather and hosshy

pitality is conducive to the

growth of Fly-Ins too if the

Golden West fly-in is any inshy

dication The event seems to

have found agreat home in

Marysville asmall city near

the state capital of Sacrashy

mento Insulated from the

Pacific maritime climate

by the mountains to the west the valley

seems to have perpetual VFR weather As

Im aconfirmed northern Midwesterner

the dry summer weather is abit of cuishy

ture shock for me but its easy to get

used to I always enjoy atrip out west

to visit with members and friends who

I dont see nearly enough and to marshy

vel at their fantastic restorations Our

thanks to members Rand Siegfried Kent

and Sandy Blankenburg Paul Price and

Golden West President John Gibson for

their hospitality and help during our allshy

too-brief visit to the Golden West The

11th Golden West EAA Regional Fly-In is

scheduled for June 6-8 2008

The Champion Antique award winner from Napa California was Frank Russos Piper J-3 Cub

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These four family members were just a few of the thoushy The older Aeronca-styIe oleo landing gear is a clue that this is an early sands of people who passed through the gates of the Champion Citabria_ It was flown to the Golden West Fly-In by Don Johnston Golden West Fly-In_ of Davis California and took home the Contemporary Champion award

The Reserve Grand Champion Classhysic of the Golden West was Brett Scheidels Cessna 195

Top dog in the Classic catshyegory the winner of the Grand Champion trophy was Howard McGinnis Cessna 120 Hes from Watsonville California

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Ben Mueck and his family gather next to Bens reshycently completed restoration of this rare CurtissshyWright Travel Air Speedwing Bens had the project for more than 35 years H was originally owned by Casey Lambert in St Louis Last year at the Reno National Championship Air Races EAA Founder Paul Poberezny presented Ben with a photo of the plane taken when Lambert owned it Lambert and Poberezny became friends when Lambert retired to the north woods of Wisconsin and Lambert buiH a Baby Ace on floats that now resides in the EAA AirshyVenture Museum The photo helped Mueck finalize his restorations details The Mueck familys CoW Speedwing won the Antique Reserve Grand Chamshypion trophy

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Willie Turner son of the late restorerairshycraft replica builder Bill Turner serves the Golden West as air boss For his day job Willie is the vice president of operations of the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Cartos California in the Bay area For more info on the museum visit wwwHillerorg

ARIZONA STEARMAN Jack Pollack picked up his Steashy

rman project in Seattle Washington in February 2000 Its a 1941 PTl3shyB serial number 75-873 The project had been kicked around for many years and was as he puts it in a milshylion pieces in boxes The last time it flew was in 1968

Shortly after starting work on 099 he made contact with Ken Wilson a Stearman historian and asked him to trace the history of this aircraft Its first assignment in the military

was in March 1941 at Hemet Field It bounced around California until July 1945 Its last assignment was at Thunderbird Field II now Scottsdale Airport Interestingly that was Jacks home base at the time he bought the project In another odd coincidence the airplane was sold from the milshyitary to Leland Hayward and John Connelly John Connelly is the fashyther of Scott Connelly a friend of Jacks Scott is a former Stearman owner now flying a Cessna 180 out

of Carefree Arizona Jack would like to thank EAA for

its invaluable help in this restorashytion project He also extends a special thanks to Tom Weidlich for his help and guidance

After almost seven years and more than 3500 hours work Jacks Stearshyman flew for the first time in almost 40 years on November 30 2006 The Stearman flew perfectly

Jack Pollack EAA 328199 Scottsdale Arizona

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MISSOURI CHAMPION This Champion 7FC (L-16 replica) was one of the last

greenhouse models built by Champion in 1963 Don Miles did a complete restoration with new wood glass and Poly-Fiber fabric It was finished in AN yellow as an L-16 This aircraft was an instrument trainer and has a full gyro panel Dave says it now has a zero-time Conshy

tinental C90-12F and a new Sensenich propeller and Airtex interior Don extends his thanks to GampJ Aircraft in Boonville Missouri for providing rebuilding advice and inspections

Donald Miles EAA 161653 Columbia Missouri

BRAZIL LUSCOMBE Heres what Joao Moura of Santa Catarina Brazil wrote conshycerning his Luscombe

I bought my project in March 2003 After hours and hours of pleasure working in the recovery making a new instrushyment panel and new paint (by myself) My Dream has already come true

My Dream is a 1946 Luscombe Silvaire 8E with C-85 12F (experimental) My Garmin Pilot III already shows Ive accushymulated a total of 16000 miles flown among the states of the south of Brazil

lilt is an incommensurable pleashysure to fly this beautiful airplane

Joao Moura EAA 625755 Santa Catarina Brazil

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NEW HAMPSHIRE PIPERmiddot TRI-PACER

Complete with a functional Piper autoflight system this is David Adams Piper Tri-Pacer which he restored with the help of EAA Chapter 51 with additional help from Steve Grant for the re-cover and Gene Rebielo for the engine overhaul and certification

This shot was taken after the first flight on May 5 2006 The restoration was done in a garage in Dighton Massashychusetts Dave has owned this airplane for 35 years and wouldn t recommend taking that long to restore an airshyplane It took so long because of all those wonderful intershyruptions in life kids family work and flying and keeping another aircraft Hes certainly happy he stuck with it

David Adams EM 230967 West Ossipee New Hampshire

KENTUCKY CUB According to the note sent in by Steve Trutschel this

Cub was ready for the scrap yard Seven years went into bringing this 1940 Cub back to life As you can see in this shot the short field performance with just 90 hp is unbeshylievable with a takeoff run shorter than 200 feet When you add Super Cub controls trim system baggage comshypartment 26-inch tundra tires balanced elevators PA-ll front seat wing tanks and the vortex generators you have the original recipe for the yellow smiley face

Steve thanks Susan Bell who helped push him through the tough times and who would dig right into the nastiest jobs He also expresses many thanks to Cub Stewart of Red Stewart Airfield (40I) for the use of his time buildings tools and knowledge of the little Piper Cubs Also thanks to Cathy Stewart for the extremely nice fabric work on this Cub Steve says Without the help of these very close friends I would never have finished this delightful little airplane

Steve Trutschel EAA 0387707 Alexandria Kentucky

WISCONSIN CHAMP David Meyer who hails from the north woods of the wings and tail surfaces The color scheme mimics one

Wisconsin in Merrill Wisconsin restored this Aeronca published on the cover of Sport Aviation in 1996 but in Champ which is powered by an 85-hp Continental enshy Cub Yellow and Juneau White gine New parts include wood spars struts leading edges Dave thanks Darrell Kahn for his technical support and cowling and a snazzy Airtex interior Done in the and AampPIA Al Hatz Stits Poly-Fiber process the airplane actually belongs to David Meyer Davids son ]eremie Davids other son Jody helped with EAA 347287 the covering tapes and installing all those PK screws in Merrill Wisconsin

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

The winner of the 1929 Dole race ARTICLE AND PHOTOS BY ED PHILLIPS

$25 OOO~lft~ec~ his pipe and1 bull thought about

all that money Relaxing in his office at the Travel Air facshytory he had heavy responsibilities on his shoulders He had been president of Travel Air since February 1927 after Clyde Cessna departed the company And now he faced a serious decision James Dole had put up $25000 for the first-place winner to fly nonstop from California to Hawaii and Travel Air was getting inquiries from pilots who wanted an airplane to make the flight

But who should get an airplane It was May and 17 orders had been tendered for Dole racers Yet Beech and the board of directors at Travel Air hadnt decided who to build for

It wasnt the first time such orders had been received Back in March Travel Air had refused three orders to build a large transatlantic airplane for passenger service between New York and Paris Ever since Lindberghs flight it seemed everyone was infected with aviation fever

Now Dole had offered another tidy sum of money for someone to make the Pacific crossing to Hawaii Beech really couldnt see how the company could afford to interrupt curshyrent production to construct special racing ships for the Dole contest But it was very tempting indeed

If a Travel Air won there would be terrific publiCity But if a Travel Air lost Beech decided to give it more thought

Hawaii was just a tiny speck amid the vast reaches of the Pacific Ocean An error of a few degrees in navigation could spell disaster making the pilot miss the islands altogether

Meetings were held discussing the situation Travel Airs board of directors authorized Beech to build two machines for the Dole race and keep the production line rolling at the same time That was a most important pOint because Travel Air was still located in its West Douglas factory where there was very little space for construction of two special ships

The solution was a new factory and Travel Air was slated to move into the facility in June 1927 The company had been busy producing the Models B BW and BH along with the Model 5000 monoplane for National Air Transport (NAT)

REPRINTED FROM Vintage Airplane JUNE 1983

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Lead The new Woolaroc as it appeared in November 1928 ready to assault the transcontinental speed record The cockshypit was in center fuselage making visibility nearly impossible APratt amp Whitney radial of 400 hp is installed and fuel tanks totaling 600 gallons capacity inhabit folWard fuselage

in the West Douglas plant but the new factory would greatly reduce problems associated with normal production

Fifty men labored long hours to build Travel Air airplanes and Beech knew that few could be spared for any special projshyects He consulted with factory manager Bill Snook From Snooks viewpoint it would be possible to build two ships for the race but they would have to be built in the new factory

By June everything was settled The four NAT monoplanes would be finished in the downtown facility the Dole racshyers would be built out at the East Central location Men and equipment began the move in June and the production line was hardly interrupted in the process By June 30 the new facshytory was humming with activity

Walter Beech Bill Snook Horace Weihmiller and the board of directors perused the Dole race situation The only type of airplane suitable for the modifications necessary for the race was the Model 5000 monoplane

This design was originally drawn up for competition and a production contract at the request of NAT in October 1926 Clyde Cessna had designed financed and built his own monoplane completely free of Travel Air control in March 1926 Walter Beech liked it Lloyd Stearman and Cessna redeshysigned it to meet NAT requirements in the fall of 1926

By December NAT had flown the prototype and issued a production contract to Travel Air for eight ships on Janushyary 7 1927 Seats for four passengers in a heated cabin with wicker chairs was not too bad for those days Even the large cabin windows could be slid open and closed for environshymental comfort

But the cabin would not house seats and windows for the Dole racers Instead large fuel tanks would inhabit the area with a navigators station provided farther aft if necessary

Travel Air engineers handled the changes required to make the Model 5000 into a longshydistance flyer Weihmiller was chief engineer assisted but Herb Rawdon Walter Burnham and CB Bennett

Finally on June 18 1927 Travel Air conshytracted for the first of two Dole race airplanes A tall handsome young man by the name of Art Goebel signed his name on the order and discussed modification with Beech and the engineers Goebel had been flying mostly in California where he worked for National Pictures Inc He was well-liked and respected as both a pilot and a bUSinessman and these two points were well-taken by the board of directors of Travel Air They interviewed and

Travel Airs first product was the Model A an example shown here being questioned Mr Goebel for five days before flown by Walter Beech in the summer of 1925 This model firmly estabshy deciding to let him sign Goebel had flown lished Travel Airs reputation as a builder of high-quality dependable comshy other ships in California but came to Wichita mercial airplanes

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

because he wanted a Travel Air A $5000 deposit was placed on the airplane and work began immediately

Hot on Goebels heels were Al Henley and Benny Griffin

Wright J-5CA of 200 hp powered the Woolaroc across the Pacific to Hawaii The engine shown here is the original powerplant Note the pressure grease fittings on the rocker box assemblies These were special fittings that once grease was injected into the box cavity would keep presshysure feeding the lubricant to the valve mechanism These units were considered standard equipment for any long-disshytance flight Lindbergh also had them on his Wright radial The sunken exhaust ring shown here was developed by Travel Air engineers and was used only on the Woolaroc Magnetos are hidden behind bumps forward of cylinders

View of the cockpit showing instrument panel stick and throttle quadrant details Mannequin of Art Goebel is sitshyting in the cockpit

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who ordered their ship on June 28 after surviving the same scrutiny from the board of directors Their $5000 deposit was placed and the factory began work on Dole racer 2

Soon after these orders were placed the original Travel Air Model 5000 sold to Pacific Air Transport in 1927 was about to take off for Hawaii piloted by its new owner Earshynest Smith

Walter Beech was aware of this attempt and wrote a letter to Smith recommending he allow Travel Air to suitably modshyify the ship for such a flight but Smith refused Smith and his navigator Carter had to turn back not long after they took off from Oaklands new airport because of a broken wind deshyflector A second attempt was successful on July 14-15 1927 Smith had a new navigator named Emery Bronte and they were the first commercial pilots flying a commercial airplane to reach Hawaii The Army had beaten them though Maitshyland and Hegenberger flew their Atlantic C-2 from Oakland to Wheeler Field on June 28-29 to become the first airmen to fly that route

As July drenched Wichita in typical Kansas heat Frank Phillips of the Phillips Petroleum Company entered the Dole race picture He decided to sponsor both Goebel and Henley in the race partly because of promotion for a gasoline named Nu-Aviation

But Frank Phillips also cared about aviation His cash enshyabled Art Goebel and Griffin to enter the race as their finanshycial backers did not have all the necessary funds Because of Phillips help Goebel named his ship the Woolaroc a word meaning woods lakes and rocks the topographical features of the Phillips ranch in Bartlesville Oklahoma

The Woolaroc was ready for test flight by August 2 Clarshyence Clark Travel Airs chief test pilot made the uneventful hop Weighing in at 2200 pounds empty the Woolaroc was well-dressed for the rave in her colors of Travel Air blue fushyselage and orange wings Wingspan was 52 feet and power came from a Wright Whirlwind of 200 hp Wing and fuselage tanks carried 425 gallons of fuel the fuselage units being speshycially made for this purpose

Travel Air workers rushed to get the Woolaroc completed as the date of the race August 17 was not far away Goebel accepted the airplane paid the balance of the $18000 price tag and took off for Bartlesville He visited with Frank Phillips and then departed for California on August 6

The flight to California was very important Fuel conshysumption and engine break-in were paramount concerns for Goebel He double-checked everything All went well and he arrived at Oakland on August 9 ready to go

Walter Beech departed Travel Air Field on August 7 to fly out and supervise servicing and handling of both the Woolaroc and the Oklahoma as Griffin and Henleys ship had been named Phillips had a cache of Nu-Aviation fuel waitshying at Oakland for both airplanes

The Woolaroc was equipped with a Pioneer earth inducshytor compass drift indicator and a radio taken from Earnest Smiths Travel Air All Goebel lacked was a naVigator The race officials highly recommended a navigator especially one qualified in celestialmarine navigation Few pilots in 1927

code position reports to passing ships By midnight Goebel had climbed the Woolaroc to 6000 feet atop a stratus layer of clouds They held to course and waited anxiously for the dawn to greet them Only then could they check their drift from the night wind

When sufficient daylight existed Davis and Goebel dropped smoke bombs to check drift As an aid Travel Air workers had painted angular drift lines on the Woolarocs horizontal stabilizer Calculations showed a groundspeed of nearly 100 mph with the predicted northeast winds aloft helping them out

A course change was made to 230 degrees for the final hours into Wheeler Field The wind was shifting to the east and southeast so Goebel held the new course despite his disshyagreement with Davis over the heading change

Hours went by The Wright droned on perfectly Both With mannequin removed more can seen men were getting tired but felt good Then Goebel noticed the stabilizer trim wheel on left cockpit sidewall mounted what seemed to be a cloud on the distant horizon But it at left of pilot seat Fuel lines from tank to selector assemshydidnt move as they got closer Mauil thought Goebel Itbly pulleys for control surfaces are also visible was MauL

Soon the Woolaroc flew past Diamond Head met there were experts at both so the idea was a wise one by a Boeing PW-9 pursuit ship from Wheeler Field As Goebel

D W Tomlinson a lieutenant in the Navy knew someone and Davis watched the Boeing pilot nestled in tight formashyGoebel could depend on for his navigator Lieutenant Wilshy tion with the Woolaroc He held up one finger and was grinshyliam V Davis Goebel and Davis already knew each other so ning from ear to ear They were first the team was formed and the race date closed in Goebel flew inland and landed at Wheeler Field 26 hours

Brice Goldsborough and] D Peace of the Pioneer In- r-------------------------shystrument Company were on hand to check equipment The Woolaroc compasses were calibrated and the earth inshyductor unit checked Accuracy of these components across 2500 miles of open ocean was well appreciated by all 15 entrants and Goldsborough and Peace were busy men prior to take-off day

On August 8 all pilots drew take-off slots Goebel ended up number 7 Benny Griffin was number one in the Oklashyhoma On race day August 16 1927 both the Woolaroc and Oklahoma took off safely and were on their way The Oklashyhoma returned to Oakland after only one hour en route and was out of the race due to an overheating engine

Now Travel Air and Phillips Petroleum were down to one airplane and two airmen winging their way toward Hawaii The Woolaroc was doing fine Davis was able to receive signals from the Armys San Francisco-Maui radio range installed for the Maitland-Hegenberger flight

Celestial sightings were also taken along the route with Davis opening the hatch on the upper fuselage for sextant reading The hatch also had a windscreen built into it so that slipstream buffeting would not affect the sightings

Up front Art Goebel was flying the Great Circle routes given to him by Davis This information and other data were transmitted between the two men via a pull-string pulley arshyrangement The Woolaroc was level at 4000 feet for the early portion of the flight holding a heading of 250 degrees

As the blueorange monoplane progressed westward it was slowly engulfed by the Pacific darkness They were inshydeed alone

Davis now took sightings on Polaris and transmitted Morse VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Close-up view of throttle quadrant on left cockpit sidewall Three levers are throttle (top) spark advanceretard (censhyter) and mixture (bottom)

Art Goebel seated in the revised cockpit of the Woolaroc transcontinental speed ship Full instrumentation including Pioneer earth inductor compass was installed on panel The two windows shown here were the only means of outshyside vision and were enlarged after first flight Top speed of ship was 160 mph but cruise was a disappointing 135 mph not fast enough for a new record attempt

17 minutes and 33 seconds after takeoff It was a victory wellshyearned and Goebel had much thanks for his navigator Bill Davis Both men were honored during their short stay in the islands The Woolaroc was disassembled and shipped to the states aboard the steamship Monoa

In October Goebel and the Woolaroc flew into Wichita and received a heros welcome Walter Beech commented that

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Right fuselage view looking forward Notice that entry door no longer has large window as original door did

when Goebel ordered his airplane in June he didnt even specify any colors Goebel had put everything in the care of Travel Air

From August to October the Woolaroc flew more than 10000 miles attending tour stops in celebration of the Dole win

When she returned to Travel Air in October it was time for a complete re-cover and overhaul And it was time for a secshyond chance at glory Art Goebel had a plan for the endurance record using the Woolaroc He instructed Travel Air to install 525-gallon fuel tanks strip all excess weight from the Dole race configuration and beef up the landing gear to handle the higher gross weight

But Goebel had company Griffin brought the Oklahoma back to Travel Air for the same modification for the same purshypose He and Goebel discussed making a two-airplane endurshyance attempt but the idea was scuttled later

Goebel intended to use Wichita for the attempted flight The grass runway at Travel Air Field was not long enough at 2500 feet to safely take off with all that fuel so preparations were made to use the California section south of the Travel Air factory

A one-mile-long runway was prepared but after the modishyfications were done to both airplanes both pilots began to have second thoughts about basing the attempts at Wichita Perhaps it was the small purse of $7500 offered for the event or the fact that only $5000 had really been raised by late fall when the flights were to be made

Goebel also complained that Wichitas field elevation of about 1400 feet above sea level would hamper climb performance of the Woolaroc and that longer span wings needed to be built But there was no money time or justishyfication for them

About this time news was received that cities in Texas and Florida were offering much higher sums of money for pilots to make their endurance flights there and this ended both Goebel and Griffins interest in a Wichita endurance flight

After consultation with Phillips Goebel decided to retire the Woolaroc Clarence Clark flew the ship down to Arkansas City Kansas for long-term storage in February 1928

But Goebel returned to claim his airplane in August He

planned to fly the ship to Los Angeles where it would be on display while Goebel would be winging his way across the US in a Lockheed Vega attempting to set a cross-country speed record It was a nice bit of publicity work indeed

Pete Hill and Goebel flew to Arkansas City but couldnt get the Wright started The magnetos were dead Another set was installed and the Woolaroe was soon off for Los Angeles

On August 20 Goebel set a record from Los Angeles to New York in 18 hours 58 minutes He averaged 150 mph Goebel began serious consideration of an east-west trip in the upcoming months But there was no Vega for such a flight the only ship readily available was the Woolaroc

Phillips wanted more publicity out of the Travel Air and he discussed the idea of using the Woolaroe for the east-west speed dash Goebel knew it wasnt designed for pure speed but maybe Beech and Travel Air could do something about that

Beech listened along with Herb Rawdon Walter Burnham and other workmen who would be involved in modifications to the airplane They didnt like what they heard Goebel proshyposed removing the cupola gutting the front cockpit and fairing it over for less drag The pilot would sit in the aft comshypartment where side vision out of two windows would suffice for flight viSibility The engineers immediately discounted that idea They told Goebel the airplane would be so blind with that 52-foot wing obstructing nearly all forward vision that it would be unsafe to fly But Goebel insisted after some heated

But Goebel wasnt worried He got in fired up the radial and performed some preflight checks The stacks of the Pratt amp Whitney engine were barking loudly as it idled and then ran up whipping the chilly Kansas air

Ready for takeoff Goebel lined up fed in the throttle and experienced a rapid acceleration as the Woolaroe gathered speed But he couldnt see He was making the takeoff without raising the seat relying only on the side windows for visibility Goebel just looked outside as best as he could and kept on going

Once airborne everything was normal But visibility was very poor at best from his aft perch in the Travel Air Beech took off in a J-5 Model 4000 biplane and tried to catch up with the Woolaroe He just couldnt keep up with Goebel A full-throttle speed check disclosed an indicated airspeed of 160 mph Not bad but not good enough for a cross-country attempt and Goebel was discouraged He needed to average more than 160 mph to better the existing record but the Woolaroe wouldnt be able to make that kind of speed and he knew it

Throttling back to cruise rpm of 1900 yielded a paltry 135 mph There was no use continuing the flight Performance was just not good enough Art Goebel hadnt bargained for what happened next As he approached for landing he could barely see the runway area Judging the flare was tough and the ship hit hard bounced and Goebel had to feed in bursts of power to keep her flying Then the ship hit again bounced hit bounced and finally came to a controlled stop

Goebel got out of the airplane and started looking for discussion with Travel Air personnel that he could handle the rr====i==7~===============---shy

airplane just fine and he wanted the change made Beech agreed to all the modifications and the Woolaroe disshy

appeared inside the Travel Air factory Deadline for all work was November 20 the night Goebel wanted to make the flight west using the full moon as an aid to navigation

The front cockpit was dismantled and the area faired over Additional fuel tanks were installed there bringing the total fuel capacity to 600 gallons A new instrument panel was inshystalled in the aft compartment where Davis had sat during the Dole race All new flight instrumentation was included with full capability for blind flying in use at the time

A special seat arrangement had to be worked out for Goeshybel He would be able to raise or lower his seat as required to see through an opening cut in the upper fuselage This was to be used during takeoff and landing The original entry door was retained on the right side

The Wright Whirwind was removed and a Pratt amp Whitshyney (PampW) Wasp of 400 hp installed complete with bayoshynet exhaust stacks The extra fuel capacity would be needed for the big thirsty PampW

Despite hard work the Woolaroe couldnt be completed prior to November 20 but was done by November 24 Goeshybel inspected the ship and approved all the changes Even the landing gear drag had been reduced by changing the overall area and profile of the gear struts

The mild-mannered Woolaroe had been transformed into a slicked-up speedster but how fast was it It was time to find out Clarence Clark told Goebel that he had better be careful on takeoff it looked pretty nasty to see out of the aft cockpit

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The NAT airplanes were larger than Model 5000 prototype and most were powered with newer Wright J-5 series engines of 225-230 hp Cabin was heated and featured sliding side windows for inflight ventilation A vomit tube was standard equipment visible under fuselage

he came in for landing without the benshyefit of landing lights The Woolaroc touched down safely but then hit an unseen ditch that caused the ship to lurch to a stop her main landing gear damaged her pilot a litshytle upset

Goebel decided to repair the airplane and return to Wichita Even he now agreed it was just too unsafe for flight After a few days making repairs he took off for Travel Air But the Woolaroc had one more scare in store for her pilot

Flying in a foggy mist seeing ahead was impossible Nearing the west side of St Louis a tall water tower flashed by the side window barely clearing the wing Goebel

just kept flying thinking how close that one was and wondering why he modified a docile machine into one that almost killed him

The Woolaroc landed at Travel Air Field on December 1 and Goebel told Walter Beech and Frank Phillips he could not safely fly the ship and it should be retired permanently Beech and Phillips agreed comshypletely with Goebel

Located on the Phillips ranch the museum would be a permanent legshyacy to Travel Air and the feats of the Woolaroc Art Goebel and William Dashyvis as well as the many men who deshysigned and built the ship

The Woolaroc was the 11111 Model 5000 built and posed here are some of the men who It was decided to return the designed built and flew her to victol (L-R) Howard Baccus Walter Burnham Herbert Woolaroc to its original configushyRawdon William Hauselman Pinky Gromes Ted Cochran Art Goebel Ralph Morton ration of the Dole race and this Harold Brooks Horace Weihmiller and Clarence Clark Photo taken prior to Dole race work was carried out under the Note wind drift eye-cup and sight wires on cockpit door Pioneer magnetic compass dishy able workmanship of Carl and Guy rectly behind windscreen

Walter Beech He told Beech that the windows needed to be enlarged for better visibility and that the airplane was a bit tough to fly from the aft cockpit Workers were put on the job quickly They built the openings larger and lowered the seat more That was all they could do as Goebel wanted to take off that day for New York

Another test flight was made and Goebel found the larger windows were some improvement His handling of the airshyplane was better and he felt more confident it was flyable

He left Wichita late in the afternoon and pointed the reborn Woolaroc east toward St Louis Arriving after dark Goebel couldnt locate his primary airport so he went lookshying for any airport he could find The sooner he got the airplane on the ground the better He had only made a few landings with it during the day and landing it at night would be a chore indeed

He finally found an airport Letting down cautiously

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Winstead two of Wichitas early aviation personalities It was reshy

painted Travel Air blue and orange and flown on a 15shyday farewell tour by Goebel Phillips had received over 400 requests for such a tour and Goebel consented to make the flights

The Woolaroc was unlicensed for the tour and was placed in the museum in August 1929 The license for NX869 was permanently retired on November 16 1929

Editors note Since this article was written the Woolaroc has been restored and is now on display in its own airplane room within the Woolaroc Museum and Wildlife Preserve located 12 miles south-southwest ofBartlesville Oklahoma wwwwoolashyrocorg or call 800-636-0307 for hours and information

Should any readers wish to inquire of the Frank Phillips Founshydation and Museum for more information on the Wooiaroc the following address is provided Frank Phillips Foundation Inc Woolaroc Route 3 Bartlesville OK 74003

Getting Your AampP Rating Part II - Long-in-the-tooth AampP students

Vincennes University Avishyation Technology Center (AampP school) in Indianaposhylis is the home ofa number of senior AampP students A state law allows Indiana reshytirees 60 and older to attend this state-supported school tuition-free Yes thats right FREE This is made possible through the Indiana Senior Scholarship Program

This is the tale of four seniors wish-a longtime goal for some a more recent one for others-to earn an AampP certificate All four are pilots and EAA andor VAA memshybers who wanted to know more about the planes they fly

As a kid I think I built almost every kind of model airplane in the known world But Mr Pipers Cub was the first real plane I ever flew back in 1958 Forty fun-filled hours later in the Cub I had my Single-engine land pilots certificate

In 1969 I bought a 1946 Aeronca Chief (NC-9726E) for $1450 It was even in flying condition In about 1971 I thought I would recover the Chief and put it into original colors It would take about five to six months-or so I thought Make that two years

At first it seemed I was better suited to chemistry test tubes and pharmacology than to aircraft resshytoration but years of working on old cars helped some Mike Girdley AampP lA helped me with the work and made sure everything was done correctly While waiting to fly in the Parade of Flight at EAA AirVenture 1985 Gene Chase then the editor of Vintage Airplane took a beautiful photo of my Chief and put it on the

BY DAVE CLARK

cover of the magazine in December 1985

In 1985 I was recruited by Dale (Gus) Gustafson to help judge anshytique aircraft at Oshkosh and I have been judging every year since then My family and I attended the EAA fly-in two times in Rockford and since then I have missed only two of the events at Oshkosh both times for business reasons

1995 brought a tornado to our litshytle Indiana airport that the weather bureau called straight-line winds Right Twenty airplanes were totally destroyed and the huge hangar was about 200 yards removed to a cornshyfield The Chief was rolled up in a blue-and-yellow ball with its wheels pointing skyward It was enough to make a grown man cry

Meanwhile I bought a Piper TrishyPacer in partnership with Paul Vogel who is also featured in this article A guy has to have something to fly

About four years ago restoration on the Chief began to show some progress In 2001 my retirement gave me time to take a welding class at the AampP school in Indianapolis Mike

Gehrich the department head said that I could but it was not given until the next semester He then handed me a brochure which contained all of the classes offered in the AampP school and asked if there were any other classes that might be of interest I picked the sheet metal class and I was hooked The classroom work and the labs were excellent and made me want more I got along famously with

all of my much younger classmates and seemed to fit right in

The FAR class was put out of the way next By the time the fall classes started I had signed up for all of the airframe classes and I thought I would get the airframe certification and leave it at that

After the A was in my back pocket I missed the classes and the interaction with professors and stushydents so I enrolled for the second year Now it was time to take all of the powerplant classes Two semesshyters later the pretesting FAA written tests orals and two days of practicals were out of the way and I was a real AampP It makes the owner-assisted anshynuals a lot more fun

After graduation Mr Gehrich asked me to do the substitute teachshying at Vincennes University Aviation Technology Center and I have been having a ball teaching several differshyent classes Tutoring two young stushydents two times a week in the AampP classes has been my latest project

If everything goes well the Aeronca Chief (late of the tornado) should be flying by the fall of this year The

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right aileron of the Chief was deshystroyed and I decided to make one with this shiny new AampP certificate It is under construction at the time of this writing and is looking good

The Chiefs fuselage welding repairs were done by AampPIA Mike Girdley During the past two years I overshyhauled the Continental A-65-8 the two magnetos the carburetor and many other pieces and parts The inshystruments were sent out to Keystone Instruments in Lock Haven Pennsylshyvania and they look fantastic The wood-grain instrument panel was hand-painted by Hot Brush in Bird City Kansas and looks beautiful Tail feathers are covered with Ceconite 102 through nitrate with Randolph Dope to follow The rest of the covershying is waiting for better weather

Before I started the AampP classes and having worked on several of my other planes I thought I knew a fair amount about small airplanes but I didnt realize how much I didnt know

In summary I cant say enough about how helpful and encouraging all of the professors are The equipshyment and aircraft are outstanding and the instruction was excellent I never expected to be able to work on such a variety of aircraft-which included a Boeing 737 as part of my class work Since earning my AampP I take on each restoring task with a totally new enshythusiasm and excitement I would recommend the AampP school at Vinshycennes University to anyone-no make that everyone Go get an AampP To 26 AUGUST 2007

EAA members all in the back row we have Joe Kokes AampPmiddotIA Tim LeBaron AampPmiddotIA and Gary Zeller AampPmiddotIA The students in front are Dave Clark and Paul Vogel

quote a famous tiger Its grrreat Dave Clark (EAA 71411 VAA

9581) is a retired pharmacist professional speaker and associshyation management executive He is also a member ofEAA Chapter 1311 Dave uses his new expertise to teach new AampP students and to work on his Aeronca Chief

A few of Daves fellow AampP stushydents weigh in on the benefits of earning an airframe amp powerplant mechanics certificate

John C Broyles My retirement from Delta Air Lines

as a customer service agent became official in November 2000 Today I work part-time as a handyman and attend Vincennes University Aviation Technology Center pursuing and AampP certificate

At the age of 13 I got my first ride in an airplane when my dads cousin landed a pretty yellow Cub at the family farm just west of Indianapolis

One day when I was 21 my Uncle Sam said I need you boy and off I went to training as a Huey mechanic After a tour in Vietnam I returned to Indiana took up flying and earned a private pilot certificate

As so often happens I got married started a family and a familiar story unfolded There was not enough money left over for flying However the desire was always there to own and fly my own Ercoupe or Champ

Retirement began a new era in my life One day while looking at the Inshy

diana Community College Network website I read about the Indiana Seshynior Scholarship Program Since Vinshycennes Universitys AampP school was only 15 minutes from our home bells went off in my head I debated Should I go back to flying and rent an airplane once or twice a month or should I earn an AampP certificate and put off flying for a while I decided to earn the AampP certificate and I am really glad I did I am having a great time learning the vast array of skills necessary to graduate from the unishyversity and earn an AampP certificate

By the time you read this I will have earned my AampP I never realized it would be so enjoyable to go back to school Being around the much younger folks makes you actually feel younger yourself The professors at Vinshycennes University are terrific and have been very helpful and patient I would recommend going back to college and earning an AampP to anyone but espeshycially to any retired person who has an interest in airplanes Go do it

John C Broyles EAA 135502 is an AampP a nd a gra duate of Vinshycennes University in Indianaposhylis and a member ofEAA Chap ter 1311

Eastwood Herin As most of you know achievshy

ing your dream in aviation can mean many different things and we are forshytunate to have choices However when the dream eventually becomes the cashyreer the career seems to take us away from the basics that led us to the dream in the first place I knew that when reshytirement from line flying was finally forced upon me not flying someshything would be out of the question Enshyter the PT-17 Boeing Stearman

Returning to the beginning sudshydenly takes on a whole new meaning A little over 12 years ago while a reshyserve captain at my airlines New York base I began to collect everything I could about the noble Stearman bishyplane The souped-up version with a Pratt amp Whitney 450 engine was my first airplane ride Memories of slow rolls into the sunset over freshly drenched Indiana farmland will alshy

John Broyles and Eastwood Herin now A amp P mechanics in the small engine overhaul class at Vincennes University Paul Vogel with over 14500 hours of flying earned his in Indianapolis

ways linger in my Technicolor brain However since acquiring one in flyshying condition is not possible on the average aviators paycheck I began what is called delusion planning Thats when the average Indiana tracshytor mechanic thinks he has enough smarts to put together an antique airshyplane from a basket of parts

Smarts and parts are the only two items flying in formation with that planning program It takes e-d-j-i-kshya-s-h-u-n Speaking with experienced Stearman rebuilders I met many who started out with enthusiasm but soon tired of the time and expense of trackshying down parts all over the countryshyside to fill the voids in their basket Most of the success stories came from individuals who started with at least a complete carcass and most notashybly these were the smart ones who took the time at some point in their aviation career to obtain the AampP mechanics certificate That means SCHOOL at age 60

I already had the desire but there was also some fear factor The money thing was no small consideration eishyther The school where I started soon lost its original airline ownership to a technical-oriented school conglomershyate that doubled the tuition I made some serious inquiries and found a better option in a local two-year colshylege Vincennes University

During the application process I was pleasantly surprised that Indishyana my state of residence encour-

AampP after retirement

ages senior retirees over the age of 60 to return for vocational and degreeshyoriented retraining with a substantial assistance incentive of fully paid tushyition I have found that this program is offered in some other states so if you are thinking about expanding your ability to maintain your own or someone elses aircraft check out the continuing education departments in your state

One major regret is that more good might have come from obtainshying the license at a younger age Once you are actively employed in aviashytion there is virtually no way to atshytend the FAA-approved curriculum and the only way to do it then is to gain the actual experience working with a AampPIA logging 30 months of apprentice experience in order to qualify for the written and practical exam (See Kathie Ernsts article in the July issue of Vintage Airplane for more information on earning your AampP in that way) Take the opportushynities when you have them

No matter where you are in life if you love airplanes and the people involved the AampP certificate might be your ticket to either remaining in aviation or simply expanding your horizons Ive started a new dream and that Technicolor brain still sees a barrel-roll into the sunset This time Ill be at the controls with the pride of building my own Dream BIG

Eastwood Herin is retired Continental Airlines captain

and an AampP student at Vinshycennes University

Paul Vogel AampP After more than 50 years and more

than 14500 hours of flight time I could not separate myself from the exshyciting field of aviation Having spent lots of hours listening to the hum of engines I was always amazed that they performed so faithfully during all kinds of weather and at altitudes where the temperatures were more than 80 degrees colder than the ground below I would watch the glow of the turboshychargers under the cowling hour after hour during night flights and marvel at how dependable they were With most of the passengers asleep and all the gauges dials needles lights and instruments telling me that all was well it was very relaXing though a bit boring at times Still it was the way you would want it to be

Then when turboprops and jets came along and flights would penshyetrate precipitation that was so heavy you could hardly see the wingtips you could depend on the fire to keep burning with no added ignishytion Flameouts were so rare that it was hardly considered Some of the helicopters I flew did however have problems with flameouts in heavy snow Installing instant relight kits took care of that and the pilots never knew there was a flameout unless they checked the cycle count that would register one more engine cy-

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cleo Improvements never cease After my days of flying for othshy

ers I wanted to know more about these flying machines that never stop evolving into ever-more-excitshying means of travel

I had attended many factory trainshying seminars and classes for flight crews to familiarize them with the latest and best aircraft we were flying It was however a cursory quick covshyerage of the systems that would be at my disposal to make the flight safe and enjoyable There was still a sense that I wanted to know more of what was going on under the hood

When I discovered that the Vinshycennes University AampP program was in my own backyard and was shown all of the planes I would be able to work on I couldnt resist giving it a try With both recip and turbine enshygines there to be taken apart put back together and finally taken to the test cell for the moment of truth you can see that it doesnt get much more exshyciting than that Although you never leave Mother Earth there are a lot of anxious moments before that engine bursts into life Thankfully the allshyknowing instructors were always close

at hand with a lot of patience for the neophyte would-be mechanics

Being a senior citizen among a bunch of college-age young folks may seem a bit awkward at first But that only lasts until the first lab assignshyment then everyone is in the same boat checking ADs verifying complishyance with type certificate data sheets searching through maintenance manuals microfiche computers adshyvisory circulars etc Working closely with the next generation has been a rewarding experience and it gives me a feeling of encouragement for the future of aviation On occasion I couldnt help but tell a few hangar stories that most seemed to enjoy and some said they benefited from my experience Just like way back in my college days there were those brainy few who had all the answers and were always helpful to me on some of the fuzzy parts Overall it was a great experience

Now that I have completed my training for the AampP certificate and passing the oral and practical exams Im going to have to find something else to do in the field of aviation

After shopping the market for the

right kit and making arrangements to clean out the garage to have a place to work on a project I have begun buildshying a Son ex Now I feel a bit more comfortable in doing it AampP right If you have ever considered taking such training I would highly recommend you take a look at what Vincennes University has to offer If youre not in Indiana check out your state technishycalor vocational schools I hope you will enjoy it as much as I did

Paul Vogel EAA 412992 is a retired Indiana State Police chief pilot and was a professional corshyporate and charter pilot He has owned several small GA aircraft and has attended Vintage work parties as weU as many EAA Air-shyVenture Oshkosh fly-ins He is a member ofEAA Chapter 1311

Since this article was written Tom Chapman also an EAA and Chapter 131 member has also earned an A amp P thought the seniors program Tom is a retired physics teacher and now teaches physics at Vincennes Univershysity A amp P school

Vincennes University website httpwwwvinu edu

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DAVE BROWN C 2007 wwwtailwheelscom

BY BUCK HILBERT

Change in the air A few issues back I had written a

bit about flying becoming too complishycated This article has fostered quesshytions from some of the membership Questions like You flew a restored open-cockpit Varney Airlines Swallow (Varney later merged into United Airshylines) what was it like How does it compare with the later airliners like the DC-3 through the transition to jets

Good questions And it gave me food for thought

The open-cockpit Swallow was the typical biplane of the late 20s Not too stable four ailerons that genershyated a lot of adverse yaw and it just wouldnt fly hands-off It would wanshyder all over the sky and it kept you on the edge of the seat all the time It was work even though it was exhilashyrating and sometimes fun

I didnt get to fly the de Havilland DH-4 or the Curtiss Carrier Pigeon with the 400-horse Liberty engines but the sheer size of them probably made them even more difficult to handle Ill have to ask those fellows in St Louis who just restored one at Creve Coeur Airport Looking at the book the airmail pioneers published back in the 1950s and seeing the number of nose-overs and damage as the result of forced landings and weather problems Im happy to have missed that era In my opinion those pilots were real heroes They flew those unstable unreliable airplanes and in the worst possible weather conditions with no navigation aids They did it with no blind-flying inshystruments and yet they completed

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their schedules better than 90 percent of the time

I did get a chance to fly the later twin-engine airplanes like the Lockshyheed 10 and the Boeing 247 I found them to be just great for stability and handling They do require attention in ground handling That rudder beshycomes an important factor in keeping it going straight down the runway

The DCmiddot3 had about reached the

end of its big airline

career when I began flying it

The experience flying the military Twin Beech AT-lIs C-45s and B-17s carried over when I went with United Airlines I had already learned about using the engines to help in taxiing and becoming proficient in hanshydling engine-out problems was of extreme importance

The DC-3 had about reached the end of its big airline career when I beshygan flying it although it remained in service on the less populous routes for many years after competition in the busier markets gave way to the bigger and more efficient types Modernizashytion was taking place The Convair 240s and 340s were much more effishycient carried more people and were

pressurized for passenger comfort I did like the DC-3 It was stable

good for short-field operations relishyable and actually almost indestrucshytible It was somewhat limited being unpressurized Most of our flying was done at minimum en route altitudes in visual flight rules and never above 10000 feet We became intimately acshyquainted with the terrain and towns along the routes avoided thundershystorms if at all possible and made many radio range and automatic direction finder approaches when we had to There were times when we sometimes traversed the same weather front three times in one day We earned our pay

Passenger comfort was always a problem Very little heat in the winshytertime sweltering in the summer along with plenty of noise vibration and sometimes turbulence made the trip very interesting Flying was still an adventure and people really had a sense of accomplishment when they got there

The Convair series of airliners were the biggest change Pressurized and now able to climb to much higher altitudes they were equipped with weather detection radar and with modern instrumentation and navigashytion equipment so we could go high or low as the situation called for They had nose-wheel steering that eased ground handling autopilots for easy straight-and-Ievel flight between stashytions and even a PA system to keep the passengers informed rather than notes passed back down the aisles

Plus they had air conditioning It was a great improvement as far as passenshyger comfort was concerned

The simplicity of the DC-3 was all but forgotten The systems that provided the convenience and comshyfort were becoming complicated airline flying was becoming a bit more professional

I almost left out another Douglas product The DC-4 Also unpressurshyized heavy on the controls and exshytremely reliable it was the airplane that now looking back was the beshy

transportation The red eye era had arrived The systems and flying were much like the DC-3 except now we had two more engines and carried a much heavier load of people andor cargo It had a much longer range the passengers still sweltered and froze and since it wasnt pressurized most of the flying was done below 10000 feet

The DC-4s did yeoman duty as milshyitary and civilian airliners and freight haulers They were the saviors in the Berlin Airlift saga and proved themshyselves again and again even through the Korean War days hauling cargo and troops all over the world

Enter the DC-6 The first to disshycover the DC-6 and its almost imshymediate follower the DC-6B was the entertainer Bob Hope Even before the airline introduced them into daily schedules Hope used the early models right off the Douglas assemshybly lines for his usa tours

Now we had all the systems the Convairs had but with four-engine reliability and a greater payload capashybility for cargo and passengers with range and speeds now approaching 300 mph With the two stage engine superchargers we could now get up to the low 20s in altitude flying with the atmospheric pressure patterns and avoiding some of the weather

This brings to mind one of the axishyoms of aviation It seemed like no matshyter how high we went there was always the thought that if we could just get a little higher we could be on top

When John Glenn made the first manned orbital flight as they opened

the capsule and asked him how it went its been reported that he said Another 500 feet and Id have been on top

The DC-6 and especially the DCshy6B model were my favorite I firmly believe they were the turning point in air transportation They and the Lockshyheed Constellations were the forerunshyners of what followed The last of the prop jobs were the four-engine turboshycompound-powered DC-7s The joke here was that it was the best threeshyengine airplane ever built

In squeezing every bit of power out of an old technology using the exhaust gases to drive turbos that generated about 700 added horseshypower they were real powerhouses But pushing them to the limits also made for high maintenance The exshytra horsepower gave us more speed consumed great quantities of oil and made engine synchronization diffishycult New York to Los Angeles in less then eight hours now became a realshyity It was also now possible to do a Chicago-West Coast turnaround in

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less then eight hours and because of the increased performance the pilots working conditions began to change More on that later

The DC-7 had a 55-gallon oil tank for each engine needed not only for lube and stuff but also for cooling With all the heat being generated producing the higher power you can guess it did use oil Lots of it Stanshydard procedure was to shut down the engine when the oil quantity dropped to 15 gallons the minimum for operation Air Sea Rescue was freshyquently called out on the long Hashywaiian Islands flights both going and coming from the mainland so the standards were changed Run the enshygine until the oil pressure began to fluctuate and then shut down Anshyother technique was to shut down at 15 gallons and then restart for the approach and landing

The actual flying of these airplanes was about the same Despite the inshycreases in speed and horsepower and modern systems through sight sound and feel (seat of the pants) they all handled about the same The DC-7 took a little more manhandling and a bit of preplanning for approach and landing but they were all pretty much the same United did not orshyder any of the new turbo props then available The thinking was they were only an interim and would soon be outmoded by the jets

Enter the jet age Boeing led the parade With Douglas falling behind in the delivery of the DC-8 United broke a long tradition of loyalty and purchased the hot rod short-range vershysion of the 707 for the ChicagO-West Coast markets The passengers now had what they had long awaited

United also bought the Frenchshybuilt Sud Caravelle for the short-haul market Then along came the Boeshying 727 Now the pilots life began to change All the systems-electrical hydraulic pressurization and engine operation-became much more comshyplicated The actual flying changed as well All that seat-of-the-pants experishyence went out the window and flying by the numbers and using the gauges became the norm 32 AUGUST 2007

No more just pulling off the power and landing The old days were gone Precision flying was it

Engine operation changed now you took advantage of the increased drag while maintaining higher power The acceleration time from idle to full

The DCmiddot8 was the

last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the

flight parameters and

we loved it

power made it imperative you keep the engine spooled up We learned about speed brakes spoilers anti-skid brakes and performance charts Temshyperature and humidity considerations had to be factored in as well

Speeds were now up in the 500shymph range This played havoc with working conditions More time was spent on the ground waiting for unshyloading cleaning refueling reloadshying and load planning than time spent in the air Now the actual flying time was about one hour for every four hours on duty For the pilot it

used to be the other way around V-speeds became the norm No

latitude was tolerated Flying right on the numbers for takeoff climbshyout cruise approach and landing was an absolute expectation Enshygine-out procedures changed radishycally And the swept wings changed the flight characteristics as well neshycessitating new ways to enter holdshying patterns adjusting to the greater speeds and trying to stay ahead of the airplane Since we old guys had all we could do to ignore our seat-of-the-pants experience some had a bad time transitioning There was little looking out the window New instrumentation like proximshyity warning devices flight guidance systems inertial navigation systems and the constant awareness of fuel conservation took a lot of thinking and doing

The actual flying was easier The aircraft were at the peak of perfection It was the operation the way things were done that changed No more run-ups prior to takeoff the airplanes had self-monitoring systems and unshybelievable reliability I still marvel at the versatility of being able to plan on being there and back and yet have the flexibility to detour around bad weather going high and fast and still make the schedule

After flying the Caravelle which handled very much like a DC-3 with a couple of blow torches under the tail and then the Boeing 727 which deshymanded the precision I talked about the DC-8 was a real pleasure for this old man to fly The Caravelle reshyminded me of the short-Wing Pipers It flew very much like the Tri-Pacer our flying club had Or so it seemed

On the other hand the 727 didnt fly like an airplane at all The Century series fighter pilots who flew with a g-suit brain bucket snot catcher and big boots loved it The seat-of-theshypants old-timers made themselves sick trying to fly it like an airplane I personally never had vertigo in my life until I flew the first 727 Everyshything was by the numbers and after flying a schedule for a couple of days I couldnt wait to get back into my

little airplane just to feel flying The DC-8 was the last of the real

pilot airplanes Cable-operated conshytrols (power-assisted of course) big and sturdy and with the flight charshyacteristics of a big overgrown Aeronca Champ Responsive and dependable it was a joy to fly When I first checked out as copilot we flew them like we always did The captain and I were always contesting to see who could make the best approaches and landshyings We did power-off 360-degree overhead approaches We explored all the flight parameters and we loved it It was a pilots airplane It could be hand-flown rather than coupled to the autopilot and as I said it flew like a Champ What a great airplane

I did not transition to the DC-10 or the Boeing 747 before I retired in 1984 I never had the seniority or the inclination I was too much in love with the DC-8 and that fellow memshybers are some of my thoughts

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BY DOUG STEWART

There are two emergency exits on this PAmiddot12 aircraft

Do you want me to brief you as if you were a real passenger is a question I am often asked by applishycants in the process of administering their private pilot practical test

Well I didnt know I was a fake passenger and furthermore if I am going to be able to assess your skills at giving a good passenger briefing I suppose that is something you will need to do is how I want to reply but realizing that might appear as a somewhat passive-aggressive reshysponse and totally inappropriate to the situation I bite my tongue and just respond Yes please

The vast majority of the applishycants I test then proceed to supshyply only the minimum amount of information to me as required by the regulations and the PTS (Practishycal Test Standards) That is to brief occupants on the use of seat belts shoulder harnesses doors and safety equipment But is that all that reshyally should be briefed Aren t there so many other things that should be included in our briefing to our passhysengers if we are to be truly responshysible pilots

Dont our passengers have the right to be apprised of the risk facshytors involved with flying Shouldnt they be told how they could take an active part in contributing to the safety of the flight Wouldn t it be better if our passengers knew of the potential physiological problems th ey might encounter during the

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flight so that if they did experience them they would know how to deal with them And the list goes on

There are many things we could include in our passenger briefings What you the pilot in command (PIC) choose to include in that list is one of the many decisions you have to make Some pilots fear that telling too much might frighten our passengers into not flying while other pilots find that their passengers both appreciate and benefit from a thorough preflight briefing Achievshying the right balance is up to you Here are some of the things I feel reshysponsible pilots should include in their passenger briefing

Certainly at the top of the list is the proper use of the seat belt and shoulder harness as well as how to open the door Have them try releasshying the seat belts and opening the door before you start the engine If you have emergency exits in your airplane point them out and demonshystrate how to open them Remember you the PIC might be incapacitated in an accident and unable to assist your passengers so they need to know these things before you ever start the engine

If you have headsets and an intershycom show your passengers how to properly use them If there are sepashyrate volume and squelch controls for each station theyll need to know how to adjust them They also need to be informed that in the unlikely

event of an aCCident theyll have to remove their headsets and clear their exit pathway of the wires not only of the headset but the power cords and antenna wires of a variety of handheld pieces of equipment that might be in their egress pathway It can be difficult to expeditiously exit a burning aircraft when all those wires hobble ones ankles

The concept of a sterile cockpit is one that I introduce early on in my passenger briefing It is extremely important that your passengers understand that their talking durshying ground operations takeoff and climb-out approach and landing and anytime you are operating in or near the airport area might have a serious impact on the safety of the flight There have been impacts of aircraft with each other as a reshysult of the distractions caused by a motor-mou thed passenger Lets make sure our passengers don t fit that description

On the other hand your passenshygers should be briefed on how they can assist in scanning for other airshycraft Describe to them the techshyniques you want them to use in pointing out aircraft they see (clock pOSition high low same altitude etc) whether verbally or manually with their index finger

If your passengers are taking their first flight in an airplane and are unfamiliar with the controls ensure tha t they are instructed to

keep their hands and feet clear of the yokestick and rudder pedals I observed one instance when a pishylot could barely taxi his airplane beshycause his passenger unbeknownst to the pilot had locked his feet unshyder the rudder pedals preventing the pilot from being able to steer the airplane Had the passenger been properly briefed that situation would have never arisen Luckily there was no bent metal as a result

Your passengers must also be made aware of the physiological effects of flying I always make it a point to show my passengers where the sick sacks are before starting the engine My experience has shown that if you point out the sack after your passhysenger is already looking like that pea soup you had for lunch he will undoubtedly need that handy conshytainer but rarely get to it in time Reshymembering that its the pilot who is supposed to clean up the airplane afshyter the flight should have you pointshying out those relief bags well ahead of time Doing so might very well prevent their even being needed

Another area somewhat related is keeping your passengers comfortshyable Be sure to point out in your briefing where the fresh air vents are as well as their proper operashytion Also let your passengers know of your limited psychic abilities that they should let you know if they are too hot or too cold and that you have the ability to control their physical comfort to some extent

Keeping properly hydrated durshying flight is important so your passhysengers should be told of that But just as important is the other side of good hydration Suggest to your passengers that they should drain their own sumps while you drain the fuel sumps of the airplane We are all aware of the bad decisions that have arisen as a result of extershynal pressures The same could hapshypen from internal pressures If it is going to be a long flight and you have one of the many containers available for bodily relief on board the time to describe the proper usshyage of such devices is yet again durshy

ing the passenger briefing Believe me I know how distracting it can be to give that description in flight let alone demonstrate proper usage

Most of our vintage airplanes are not equipped with many if any anshynunciator lights or aural warning devices but if you have any of these installed its best to brief your passhysengers about them Remember that if it is your passengers first flight they might become very alarmed when they see some of the normal lights that we are used to seeing

bull bull bull I observed

one instance when a pilot could

barely taxi his airplane because

his passenger unbeknownst to

the pilot had locked her feet under the rudder pedals

and hear that stall warning soundshying as we grease it on Let them know in advance and it becomes a non-issue

Hopefully everyone of us runs the IM SAFE checklist on ourselves prior to each and every flight but do you ask the same of your passhysengers Shouldnt you be aware of any medical condition or illness they might have I heard of a recent flight that ended in a double fatalshyity when the passenger who was a diabetic went into a seizure and ended up disabling the airplane Had the pilot been aware of the condishytion prior to flight he might have ensured that proper medication was brought along in case it was needed This too needs to be part of our passhy

senger briefing Although none of us intends to

intentionally park our airplane in a remote site away from any and all help and aSSistance yogurt someshytimes happens and we end up there If you are going to be flying over reshymote areas it becomes absolutely imperative that you brief your passhysengers about bringing along proper clothing and supplies in the event that the worst happens I am sure you and your passengers do not want to be included in the tragiC stories of people surviving a crash only to die later of exposure

Your briefing especially if you will be flying over remote areas needs to include the location and use of emershygency equipment such as flares and or signal devices emergency locator transmitters andor personal locator beacons emergency rations (if on board) the need to stay warm and dryas essential to survival and the need to stay near the aircraft Even though your flight might have been planned only as a short sightseeing flight the possibility of being forced into parking your airplane on a reshymote mountain peak could very well become the reality Will your passhysengers be prepared if this becomes the case

As you can see there are many things we might choose to include in a passenger briefing beyond just the belts and doors In fact a checkshylist specifically for passenger briefshyings might very well be in order One source for help in creating that checkshylist is the Aviators Model Code of Conshyduct available at wwwSecureAvcom

What you the PIC decide to inshyclude in your own passenger briefing is your decision and your responsishybility Just please be sure that when blue skies and tail winds beckon your passengers are as prepared for the flight as you are

Doug Stewart is the 2004 National CFI of the Year a NAFI Master Instrucshytor and a designated pilot examiner He operates DSFI Inc (wwwDSFlight com) based at the Columbia County Airport (lBI)

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Volunteers and speaking up by Geoff Robison

2 News

5 Lockheed 12A The Whittlesey familys 68-year-old limo by Budd Davisson

10 The Golden West EAA Regional Fly-In Look whats growing in Californias Central Valley by HG Frautschy

15 What Our Members Are Restoring

18 Woolaroc The Winner of the 1929 Dole Race by Ed Phillips

25 Getting Your AampP Rating Part II - Long-in-the-tooth AampP students by Dave Clark

30 Pass It to Buck Change in the air by Buck Hilbert

34 The Vintage Instructor There are two emergency exits on this PA-12 aircraft by Doug Stewart

STAFF 36 Mystery Plane EAA Publisher Tom Poberezny

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38 Calendar Executive Assistant Jillian Rooker Managing Editor Kathleen Witman News Editor Ric Reynolds39 Classified Ads Photography Jim Koepnick

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5






AUGUST 2007










6















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

































































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3



























AUGUST 2007

















4

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5






AUGUST 2007










6















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY



























AUGUST 2007

















4

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5






AUGUST 2007










6















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5






AUGUST 2007










6















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY






AUGUST 2007










6















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY









AUGUST 2007







8




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

The Golden West EAA

I Fly-In




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



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silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















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455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

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cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

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Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY


































12 AUGUST 2007




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY


14 AUGUST 2007










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY










16 AUGUST 2007











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY












18 AUGUST 2007












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY





20 AUGUST 2007




























22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY


















22 AUGUST 2007

































500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY






















500 x 5 600 x 6 700 x 8




DESSERfi

wwwdessercom

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY













24 AUGUST 2007












BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY







BY DAVE CLARK












VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY



































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY













rAiLW~eeL5


BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

BY BUCK HILBERT






30 AUGUST 2007

























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY














VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31


~---------------------------












last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY









last of the real

pilot airplanes

The captain and I

were always

contesting to see

who could make the

best approaches

and landings

We explored all the


we loved it











Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY




Over to you K

t( --t5tlt~



AUG 11-12

AUG 24-26

AUG 25-26

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 7-9

SEPT 14-16

SEPT 22-23

SEPT 28middot30

SEPT 28-30












---~---


BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

BY DOUG STEWART






34 AUGUST 2007




























VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 35

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

- Jerry Osborne































4501 Cell 715-456-8415 fixdent


715-237-2477 Cell 651-308-2839


























London 262-442-4622

38 AUGUST 2007




















indyrrcom








(740) 454-7487













Dr Glen Orr 815-735-7268



















homexpresswaynet








455-1974

2007 MAJOR FLy-INS



httpMERRinfo


October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







aviation issues


and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

BY HG FRAUTSCHY







36 AU G U ST 2007



them to anyone

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cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

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Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

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London 262-442-4622

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October 6-7 2007

wwwVAEAAorg




wwwcopperstateorg























Stay Informed







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and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY























Stay Informed







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and RII in the form




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 39

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT












Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS





Kent City MI 49330 616-678-5012




































40 AUGUST 2007












LIN COL N MERCURY

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Lincoln CA 95648 916-645-8370

antiquerinreachcom


cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414



Plainfield IN 46168 317-839-4500

davecpdiquestnet



copeland I jul1ocom


Lawton MI 49065 269-624-6490

rcoulson516cscom



dalefayeCwllSllcom


Harvard IL 60033-0328 815-943-7205

dinghaoowcnet


Greensboro NC 27409 336-668-3650

windsockaoicom


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaoicom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110



Stoughton WI 53589 608-877 -8485

da raprilairecom


Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

silschmidmilwpccom

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