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Restorers Corner

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New Years Resolutions are the vogue at this time of year so it is appropriate that we whom you have entrusted to guide the destiny of your EAA Antique Classic Division should make a few resolutions on its behalf

First we have resolved to produce a high quality color brochure similar to those presently available from EAA and the other two Divisions These brochures will tell the story of your Division and will enable you to better acquaint your friends with the Division and its objectives They will be sent to all of those interested persons who write to Headquarters inquiring about the Division as well as to all members requesting them Additionally they will be available for distribution at fly -ins and other aviation events where EAA mershychandise and publications are on sale The availability of these brochures will be duly noted in a later issue of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE as soon as Headquarters receives a sufficient supply from the printer

Our second New Years Resolution for the Division concerns inaugurating a membership drive complete with prizes for all those members who sign up specific numshybers of new members as well as a grand pri ze for the member who signs up the greatest number of new

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Florida during the Sun n Fun Fly-In The Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association an EAA AntiqueClassic Division chapter is one of the coshysponsors of the Sun n Fun Its president Bob White accepted the Boards invitation to become a member of the Board of Advisors some time ago

The fourth of the Divisions New Years Resolutions is one which can not be accomplished by your Headshyquarters staff alone I t requires the help and cooperation of each one of you It concerns the contents of th is magazine and your input into it Ideally each issu e should be an interesting mix of stories about restorations (both antique and classic) flight experiences with the older aircraft pilot reports on handling characteristics and aviation history Additionally news of chapter activities and fly-ins interesting anecdotes from the type clubs and a calendar of coming events could be regular features However all of these items must originate with you the member Your editor can not write them for you So please help your elected officers fulfill their New Years Resolution to bring you an even better magazine by taking the time to provide your editor with material which will be of general interest and enjoyment to your fellow members

Editors Note Due to the almost two months lead time and the fact that David Gustafson our new Editor reports for work January 1 st the January and February 1978 issues will be done by us Happy New Year to all

Lois and AI Kelch

members during 1978 Full details of this membership contest will be forthcoming in a later issue but you can start in right now signing up new members and they will count toward your prize even though the details of the contest have not been published You have been receivshying membership applications along with each copy of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE for most of the past year Remove these applications from your magazines and use them to sign up your interested friends All you have to do to have your friends new membership count toward your prize-winning total in the membership contest is print your full name followed by your AntiqueClassic Division membership number on the back (blank) side of the application form which you give to him Simple isnt it When his application is received at Headquarters you will be given contest cred it for h is new membersh ip

For the third Division New Years Resolution your officers directors and advisors have resolved to develop closer working ties with the present AntiqueClassic Division chapters and have gone on record as encouragshying the formation of additional AntiqueClassic chapters A new How to Form an AntiqueClassic Chapter Kit has just been put together and is presently available from EAA Headquarters by writing to the AntiqueClassic Division in care of the Division Executive Secretary The presidents of all of the AntiqueClassic chapters are invited to become members of the Divisions Board of Advisors and to participate in the management of the Division Additionally the officers directors and advishysors have resolved to do their utmost to have Head shyquarters representation at each of the fly-ins sponsored by the AntiqueClassic Division chapters during 1978 They are getting off to a good start by scheduling the next Division Board of Directors meeting at Lakeland

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JANUARY 1978 VOLUME 6 NUMBER 1

Restorer s Corner 1 Restoring an 88 Day Wonder 3 The Life and Times of Waco NC13072 4 Bleriot XI (1 911 ) 9 Vintage Album 11 Terminal Queens Ed Willi ams Assoc Ed 13 The Spirit o f American Youth Glenn Buffington Assoc Ed 16 Air Mail 19 Officers and Directors Nom inations 21

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The beginning of a Legend 7977 Bteriot X I

Cole Palens Cole Palen

Copyright C 1978 Antique Classic Airc raft Inc All R ights Rese rved

Restoring an 88 Day Wonder By j L jenkins

569 Moose Hill Road Monroe CT 06468

My Vagabond came into my hands back in 1970 which my dad bought for us as our first restoration proshyject when I was sixteen We found the Vag in a garage with cracked landing gear fittings along with bent lower longerons within the gear fittings area many of the small parts such as fairings gas tank shock struts and miscellashyneous things were missing or just plain unuseable as we wanted everything in nice shape so we could do a real nice job A Continental C85 was in the Vag for power at the time of its last flight but the owner removed it for

his own Vag which he was restoring at the time After bringing the plane home we decided on installshy

ing the 65 Lycoming that came with the plane to see if we could get it to run After some coaxing it finally did run only finding later a two inch crack in one of the cylinders and with this engine this becomes a problem as the cylinders are cast integral with the crankcase only the heads being removeable So we bought another engine and my dad having an AampP did a complete major on it To this day it has been a terrific little enshy

gine and exceptionally smooth and quiet Next came the fuselage sanding stripping then welding fittings and the lower longerons into place bringing the fuselage up to the fabric and interior stage I chose a more deluxe interior than what the Vag originally came with my mom made up tuck and roll seats wall panels in dark blue trimmed in an off-white and vinyl headliner I even brought home a tropy for best interior from one antiquc fly-in

With the interior dctails taken care of we covered the fuselage with ceconite using nitrate and butyrate dope finishing with daytona white with bahama blue trim With Spring in the air we moved the wings from the basement to the garage so we could get them covered and up to the color stage while I finished the trim colors on the wings leading edge my father made up all new cowli ng forward of the door except for the nose cowl which was taken to an auto body shop for some straightshyening

By June we had all the missing parts located or made up new and installed I even found a pair of original metal wheel pants (a RARE item) Living only 1500 from the airport we assembled the Vag in the front yard and rigged it followed by our AampIs inspection then closing up all the fairings and giving the finish a real good rub-out and a few coats of wax The next day we pushed the Vag up to the airport and had a fellow Vag owner fly it Seeing it fly after 14 months of nonstop work was a real pleasure

After being checked out by my instructor I went and had a ball with its nearly full span ailerons the roll rate was something else all controls were much more senshysitive than the Cub and Aeronca Champ I had been flyshying before it was also much faster cruising at a quick 95 mph To date I have flown the Vag 5300 hours and just love it Ill never sell it I attend all the antique amp EAA meets I can get to and it has brought home many trophies I am real proud of this little airplane I also have another Vag that I am restoring it is the trainer version of the PA-15 this one being a PA-17 and having a Continental engine shock struts dual controls and a utility flight envelope unlike the PA-15 which has just a normal flight category envelope When not restoring this Vag my dad and I are busy restoring a 1940 Warner powered Fairchild 24-W40 which I bought last year I couldnt pass it up as they are beautiful I really love antique airplanes the only problem being that the disease gets worse instead of better ~

By Clark G Seaborn R R 9

Calgary Alberta Canada T2J2T9

As if in one fell swoop all these improvements were incorporated into one airplane and it emerged as the remarkable UIC of 1933 From perhaps any angle the new UIC was a beauty the longer fuselage now had soft rounded lines the rear view windows were redesignshyed for a more graceful contour and the larger cabin inteshyrior promised much more stretch room The front end of the airplane was its crowning glory the 210 HP Conshytinental engine was now tightly shrouded in a deep

This picture is painting commissioned by Mr B P first owner of NC 3072

chord NACA cowling a cowling that sported fancy lookshying blisters over the rocker arm boxes to hold down the overall diameter It was not surprising that the UIC sold faster than it could be built and some owners of the earlier cabin Waco got quickly in line for the new model At least 70 of the UIC were built and sold in 1933 and the owners names sounded like a whos who of big names and dignitaries

from Joseph J uptners Us Civil Aircraft

My first contact with the 1933 Waco NC13072 was in March 1974 Its tattered and ripped fabric fluttered in the cold winter breezes as it sat in an oilfield storage yard near the Calgary Airport The dope finish no longer had a new lustre Many of the window panes had been smashed by vandals I nside the cockpit the winter winds were only slightly less strong as they entered through the broken windows and roof skylight A birds nest in the instrument panel hole indicated that it had been exposed to the wilds of nature for some time Some of its interior furnishings provided a hint of its former elegance with polished wood frames surrounding the automobile type roll down windows and burnished aluminum strips sepashyrating the woodwork from the upholstered side panels Four layers of upholstery material had been consecushytively applied to the seats over the years - and all were in an advanced state of decay The tires were flat frameshywork tubing colored with rust wood rotted and instrushyments missing It seemed like a moment of weakness in me at that point but I purchased the remains less logs engine propeller and a number of small parts The only history I knew of its past was that it had been wrecked up north some years previously

With so many hours of flying and years of life showshying on this airplane remains it seemed a shame not to know a little about her past to find out who had enshyjoyed her in the previous 41 years and what she looked like when new Any airplane with four layers of seat covers has most certainly had to have a number of happy and proud owners My first step in digging into this past was to join the National Waco Club - an organization devoted to the preservation and restoration of th is parshyticular breed of old aircraft Mr Ray Brandly the club president was able to locate and copy the factory sales file-containing among other things a partial listing of the first ten years owners As expected after a 43 year lapse telephone enquiries into the listed names yielded nothing of the early owners

About a year and a half following my purchase of the aircraft one of the previous owners of the wreckage living some 200 miles north of me unearthed a file of paperwork on the airplane including a mostly illegible logbook dating back to 1952 Among the other items in the file was a Waco Pilot owners newsletter circa 1940 This contained testimonial adverisements showing several notables who had purchased the then new Model E Waco among them William P Lear of Learadio Ponshydering this several weeks later I noticed that a Mr

March 1974 - Waco NCI 3072 comes to its present owner - the flowers being held by the owners wife were purchased at the same time as the airplane in order to smooth over the few anxious moments following the unveiling of the new acquisition

Barron P Lambert was pictured in front of his Waco shythe caption indication that he was a Baltimore banker THAT NAME SEEMED FAMILlAR like I had seen it somewhere in some other Waco papers Sure enough shythe factory sales file on my airplane I isted that name as the original purchaser of my airplane A quick check of the Baltimore phone directory in the library indicated that a person of that name still lived there 36 years after the article was printed A cautious letter to Mr Lambert and the story started unfolding

Barron P Lambert of 480 Park Avenue New York took delivery of his Waco NC13072 in April of 1933 She was delivered with a vermilion fuselage and Diana Cream wings with black and gold pinstriping As a purshychaser of the 1933 Waco cabin he was in the company of such industrialists as Powell Crosley Jr and Henry B

DuPont and such fast company as speedboat racer Gar Wood and aircraft racer J acquili ne Cochran

Mr Lambert recalled recently how NC13072 was his first new airplane and what an exciting business it was to discuss the building and instrument layout with the factory in Troy Ohio and finally to get it

Mr Lambert also recalled his cross country trip in this plane - my greatest trip (in all my flying) was in th is plane in the su mmer of 1934 With a friend I took off for Jackson Hole Wyoming (Rand McNally maps each state being a different scale) Landed at Dubois Table Top Mountain - altitude 8100 feet being second plane to land there By car and horse we entered Jackson Hole and for $5 per day each had the best trout fishing Ill ever see all with air mattresses guides steaks horses for one week On leaving crossed the rockies further

7943 - Seventeen year old Billie Covingshyton put 200 hours on NC13072 while working to get in ferry command

south and went to Salt Lake City then to Los Angeles On a southern route home flew over the Grand Canyon for an hour Only trouble besides a touch of bad weather was a flat tire in Kingman Arizona

While Mr Lambert lived in New York he used to fly in and out of North Beach - now La Guardia He recalled - Lindbergh was training there for his South American Flight - Post and Gatty Rosco Turner the great AI Williams - all people I called 51 R were coming in and out The enormous DOX was parked there

In August 1933 Mr Lambert moved to Eccleston Md outside of Baltimore NC13072 was kept at CurtissshyWright Airport He recalled - one eve ning after moving from NY to Baltimore when the moon was coming up full I said to my wife and a friend It would be a lovely evening to fly up to NY for dinner Why dont you]

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7933 Mr Lambert and Mrs Lambert (deceased) pose beside NCl 3072 The jaeger chronograph barely visible in the photo at the right side of the instrument panel was used in a succession of aircraft owned by Mr Lambert It was reshycently contributed to the restoration project and as it happens - it still fits in the hole cut for it 43 years earier

said my wife So I wired North Beach (now La Guardia) - WI LL BUZZ FI ELD ABOUT 8 PM PLEASE PUT ON FLOOD LIGHTS which they did Imagine doing that today We got home at 4 AM after a great evening

In 1935 NC130n was traded by Mr Lambert for a 1935 Waco after 371 hours flying time This in turn he traded for the fastest of the Wacos a Model E bought new from the factory in May 1939 (This was the mashychine pictured in the Waco testimonial mentioned earshylier) In this last Waco he was practicing night landing at Sea Island Ga on January 14 1941 -- Did not notice a wind shift made soft 3 point landings but went slowly off runway hitting soft sand and going over on my back (my only outside loop) I was drowning my sorrows in a nearby tavern while darkness and fog set in and an army bomber landed and hit my plane for which I had insurshyance

7933 Waco NC73072 new from factory with proud owner Mr Barron P Lambert Photo taken at the Curtiss-Wright Airport near Baltimore

An interesting sidelight - Mr Lamberts uncle was Major Albert B Lambert - who learned to fly from Orville Wright and who was one of Lindberghs first backers Lambert Field in St Louis is named after this gentleman

The Waco factory records indicate NC130n was used by Viair Lines I nco in East Orange NJ during 1935

In 1936 NC130n was traded to the New York Waco dealer and resold to Mr James S Sammon of Baltimore who used it for his personal pleasure and transport Mr Sammon recently recalled She was a stout little ship and I never hesitated to loop her when the opportunity permitted In 1936 I won the Washington Air Derby Balloon Bursting contest and still have a silver cup for the event Some of the highlights of my ownership were cross co untry trips and weekend jaunts such as the Gold Cup Steeple Chase in Warrington when we landed in a nearby cow pasture and after attending the ball which lasted until morning we flew back to Baltimore deshyplaning about 10 AM still dressed in white ties and tails Once I flew out to the Kentucky Derby landed on our hosts lawn and parked beside his house On weekshy

ends we would com mute to Ocean City and upon arrival dive on the local cab stand which was a signal for him to pick us up at a nearby potato patch The longest trip was from Baltimore to Los Angeles out the southern route and back over the Rocki es through canyons and at times in the laps of the gods but we made it

Mr Sammon sold NC130n in 1937 and a few years later joined the Air Force spending 4 years in Africa Europe and the Pacific In this service he met Mr Lambert neither one knowing that each other had a bond in common After that he joined National Airlines retiring recently with 25000 logged flying hours Reshycently after being to ld that a Mr Sammon had o nce owned NC130n Mr Lambert through the help and recollections of friends located Mr Sammon in Miami 35 years later

As records indicate NC130n was traded to Clifton Airport Clifton NY in 1938 then to Vinton A Smith and Wilson P Porch of Plainville Conn in 1939 No trace of these men

Early 1943 saw NC130n owned by Howard Dutton

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Above 7958 By this time many of the distinctive origishynal fittings on NC73072 had disappeared and the paint

scheme had changed Note absence of triangular rear window

Below 7936 or 7937 The Waco Mr James Sammon and two other cowboys just passing through EI Paso Texas

Below 7963 NC73072 as she looked after last rebuild in Minot ND By a coincidence paint scheme had changed back to almost the original one

in Semburg Conn She was then purchased by the ownshybull ers of the Martinsville Virginia Airport - Messrs Arthur B

Via and J G Covington Mr L R (Bob) Pettus the airshyport manager and instructor and Mr Covingtons 17 year old son Billie Covington were sent to Semburg to ferry NC130n back After 2 weeks of bad weather Billie Covington had to take the train home to continue his school Mr Pettus finally made it back after 3 weeks with the Waco

I n Martinsville NC13072 was used for charter service and by Mr Billie Covington to build up his flying time to get 200 hours in an aircraft of 200 HP or more so that he could join the air force ferry command as a ferry pilot One of his flight instructors who encouraged him in this venture was Mr Sanford Gilley - who became one of the founders and Vice President of Piedmont Airlines

Mr Covington flew her more than 200 hours He reshycalled I flew this old airplane back in 1943 with a lot of enthusiasm and I enjoyed the way she flew I got lost down in North Carolina back in 1943 when at the time with no radio equipment the only way of navigating was by compass and watch strictly contact navigation The compass on the old girl worked for going south but was quite a few degrees off going north I was lost for about an hour when I finally saw Pilot Mountain in North Carolina - a very historical mountain I got a comshypass heading back home and when I landed the old girl the gas tank was empty

Mr Pettus also flew her considerably during this ownshyership and his log book indicated a forced landing 15 miles from the airport on April 11 1943 Mr Pettus left Martinsville to work for the CAA in January 1944 and NC130n was sold (Mr Pettus passed away in March 1976 a few days after being contacted and unfortushynately was not able to provide further information His wife kindly helped with a number of the details)

As recollected by Mr Covington NC130n was sold to a Mr Johnnie P Jones an airforce instructor based at Greensboro North Carolina No contact has been made with Mr Jones and nothing is known of the whereabouts or the travels of NC130n until 1956

I n this period between 1943 and 1956 NC130n changed considerably in appearance As the factory inshystalled engine became due for a major overhaul it was replaced with a slightly modified war surplus version This later version with forced lubrication rockers and slightly larger outside diameter forced the need for a larger cowling At this point the once stylish Bump

Cowling was discarded in favor of an easily available and easily installed war surpl us Cessna Bamboo Bomber cowling The distinctive triangular shaped rear window was covered in fabric as were later Wacos from the factory as a cost cutting measure (It is also interestshying to note that the Cessna Aircraft Company reintroshyduced a very similar rear window in the mid sixties as a new feature called omnivision)

In 1956 the NC130n was based in Roanoke Va being owned by Irving E Craig and Joe Woodard It was subsequently sold to Mr J R Holt in Indianapolis Ind in March 1957 and then to Edward Frost in Le Sueur Minnesota in August 1958 Slight damage was incurred in 1958 and the right lower wing and landing gear were replaced with new units ordered from the Waco factory

NC130n was then traded through Robert Hansen of Minneapolis and Wokal Flying Service of Bowman ND and ended up in the hands of Mr Foe Kasper in Minot ND in 1961 By this time age and moisture deteriorashytion had the upper hand on the fuselage woodwork and Mr Kasper found himself soon engulfed in a major reshybuild of the structure Following this Mr Kasper logged quite a number of hours on NC130n - some on civil air patrol missions

Early in 1964 Joe Kasper sold NC130n sight unshyseen to a buyer in Fairbanks Alaska Despite the airshyplane being 31 years old at this time and considered a vintage airplane it was being purchased for use as a pershysonal transport in the harshest climate in North America - certainly indicative of the usefulness and longevity of the basic design The gentleman from Alaska came down to Minot to take delivery and to ferry his Waco back up to Fairbanks For several thousand miles he travelled northward - hopping from Minot on March 30 1964 for Lloydminister Edmonton Dawson Creek Fort Nelson and finally to Watson Lake in the Yukon Territories Here he was held up for two days during a snowstorm On April 6th while attempting to take off (with the tail wheel lock not down) following the snowstorm the airshycraft ground looped and cartwheeled onto its back - its occupant narrowly escaping injury in the tumble - with jerry cans of gas and other heavy items of baggage in the back seat Having to get back to work and faced with the bureaucratic problem of leaving his newly purchased possession in a foreign country he removed the landing gear and engine and instruments from NC130n and carried them to Alaska with him - by truck The rest of the airframe was left at Watson Lake for (hopefully) a

Above November 7976 Maybe some day she I fly again

buyer Some months later a group in Canada bought

NC130n and drove to Alaska to retrieve the landing gear For the next ten years its possession passed through the hands of 5 owners each one intending to rebuild and fly it The damage caused in the Watson Lake accident was nothing compared to the deteriorashytion vandalism and shipping damage suffered as the frame and wings were trucked 2000 miles down the Alaska Highway first to Whitehorse then to Edmonton and then finally to Calgary

T oda y it has been al most 1 3 years si nce Waco NC130n has last flown Hopefully some day in the not too distant future she may fly again - in the condition in which she first left the factory It is my hope that when this happens that we the owners and past owners of this hard working old airplane may meet and once again fly in her But that may be another story ~

Below April 7964 Watson Lake Yukon Territories Canada

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Editors Note Cole Palen a legend in his time with the able

assistance of his wife Rita have the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in Rhinebeck New York Shows are every weekend all summer For many years I have made a pilgrimage to his shrine to see and enjoy the works of a master For any true antiquer it has to be the mark of fulfillment as is the annual Fly-In at Oshkosh To say that you have been to both will tell your peers that you have truly reached that height of fulfillment

In the winter when Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome is closed Cole packs up his crew and goes to Florida

HIeriot Xl (1911) By Cole Palen

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome Rhinebeck NY 72572

The Bleriot type monoplane first made its mark in the world by flying across the English Channel in July 1909 The type enjoyed a large production life evolving through numerous improved models

The subject of this article is the famous cross-country type of 1911 Bleriots of th is model won races in the Circuit of Europe and Circuit of Britain and races from Paris to Madrid and Paris to Rome Many of these flights were as far as 1000 miles and over such mountains as the Pyrenees and the Alps This model with its comparshyatively reliable Gnome engines of 50 and 70 HP combined with its long-range gas tank slung beneath the fuselage indeed continued to make history and burnishshyed the name of Louis Bleriot its designer and manufacshyturer

Many pilots of this famous historic aircraft gained fame and fortune flying it The Frenchman Andre Beaumont who using his naval navigation techniques won the Paris to Rome Race of 1911 and chalked up victories in the Circuit of Europe and Circuit of Britain cross-country flights Georges Chavez the Peruvian who first crossed the Alps The British entrepreneur Claude Above Note the small wheel and control levers Graham White who won so many prizes in the United mounted on either side of control column The States at the Boston and Bel mont Park Air Meets and electric Tachometer was a standard item Dial is

only instrument in front ofpilot

taking along one or two projects every year The Below Some employee was no doubt inking his Bleriot was one winters project and the pictures tell rubber stamp and tried it out on this spar several the story of its restoration As far as I know there is times - it survived time and fire only one other original Bleriot flying in the world

Cole is a master with the WW I Rotary engines and has flown theirs every weekend for years as we would fly a 65 Continental

If you can find any excuse to travel East do so and visit Old Rhinebeck There is no place in the world that you can see pre-World War I planes in action

AI Kelch Editor

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Above From these sad remains emerged a complete and original Bleriot

the American Harriet Quimby the first woman pilot to cross the English Channel flew this model Bleriot

In thi s count ry at th at time there was talk of the Great American Circuit Race and Bleriot machin es were being built by different manufacturers The aircraft I actually restored is an American-built cross-country Bleriot powered with what was probably the best ae rshyonautical engine of that period - the record-break ing 50 HP Gnome rotary of French manufacture The airframe was built by the American Aeroplane Supply House Hempstead LI NY It was built in July or August of 1911 and crashed so me time prior to 1915 wh en it was stored by its last owner James McGrath in a barn near Boston

About 1964 the barn caught fire the local fire comshypany extingu ished it looked in the barn and saw a slightly singed old aeropl ane The word was out and eventua ll y Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome was ab le to procure this original aircraft and now fl ies it in a limi ted and safe as possib le manner for the continued entertai nshyment of attendants at the Old Rhinebeck Show in New York any summer Sunday

The structure of this aircraft is 98 pure 1911 wood wire and accessories Of course it has a new cloth covershying and its origina l Gnome rotary engine For those of you who are technica l minded and it amazed us it is

eq uipped with an electr ic tachometer I n America s first a ir mail del ivery on Sept 23 1911

pilot Earle Ovington carried a cargo of 1900 letters and postcards between Nassau Boul evard and Mineola LI a distance of three mil es and dropped the pouch of mail at the feet of the waiting Postmaster Thi s demonstrashytion flight was made at the Nassau Boulevard Air Meet

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES ON THE BLERIOT XI (1911)

1 Note the charred ta il skid and rear section of the fuse lage which we felt must have been stored upsideshydown with the skid close to the burning roof 2 We dated the time the aircraft was in storage by a wadded-up newspaper dated Nov 1915 which was stuffshyed in the hollow crankshaft of the engine to keep out dirt etc 3 A very interesting thing that we found when we removed the origi nal fabric from the wings was a rubber stamping adverti si ng Bleriots (See picture page 9) 4 I n the crash of the Bleriot the body was broken in half just after the cockpit Four new sections of longerons had to be sp liced in averaging 4 ft in length each The bottom horizontal land ing gear strut (bedshystead) was replaced Both wheels were replaced but we have one of the original damaged wheels Another original 50 HP Gnome propeller was installed ~

Above Wesley Cullen poses with scorched wing before and after clean-up

Below Engine before Mike Lockhart took the elbow grease after it

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Men and Thei shy

Above The engine after a thorough cleaning was like new unharmed by time and fire rV~

Right A cosmeticly clean and gorgeous engine inmiddot stallation Those magnificent men in their flyir

downdidi down down up down and the grou~d

Above Sweet Music to Mike Lockhart first run up and a smile tell the story

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Above Andy Keefe clowning il up Is it 1976 or (

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Album tage Machines

hines they go uppity up up they go around looping the loop and defying

Above The reason for the tape on the tire is obvious to me I was standing back to it the first time the tube crept out around the rim and went bang

light Here we go gathering Nuts in May (Mike Lockhart at the Podium)

Above Note the simple control system the metal bell has 4 wires coming through the floor boards and connecting to its edge Movement in any direction accomplish proportionate attitude

Below Tired but on the final stretch - the crew that helped in the restoration Left to right Mike Lockhart CarlSchupe Wesshyley Cullen Herb Eisen Andy Keefe

TERMINAL bullmiddotQueens~ ~ By Edward D Williams

Associate Editor 773 Eastman Drive

Mt Prospect IL 60056

There is a pleasant trend at airline terminals at the nations airports to spotlight the pioneer days of aviation history and it is a big boost for antique airplane enthushysiasts

The trend is to put on permanent or temporary disshyplay in the terminal lobby a replica or an authentic anshytique which draws the ultimate in contrast with the large jet transports awaiting passengers at the terminal gates

Just a few of these are the replica of the Sellers quadruplane on display in Lee Terminal at Standiford Field at Louisville Ky the authentic Curtiss Pusher in the Will Rogers World Airport terminal at Oklahoma City Okla the original Curtiss JN4 Jenny at Stapleshyton I nternational Airport at Denver Colo and the Ryan NYP replica at Lambert-St Louis International Airport

at St Louis Mo And the trend continues as illustrated by the fact

that there has been a request for the permanent display at San Francisco I nternational Airport of the Swallow restored by E E Buck Hilbert AntiqueClassic Divishysion treasurer

Perhaps the most popular and most easily recognizshyable of the aircraft on exhibit in the air terminals is the full-size replica of Charles A Lindberghs Spirit of St Louis which is on permanent display in the two-story lobby of the new International Wing of Lambert-St Louis I nternational Airport

Although the original Spirit of St Louis is permashynently housed in the Smithsonian Institutions National Air and Space Museum in Washington DC the copy in St Louis draws considerable interest from passengers passing through every day and has a bit of fame for itself it was used in the 1957 motion picture biography of Colonel Lindbergh The Smithsonian has owned the

Left Quadruplane replica on display in Lee Terminal at Standiford Field Louisville Ky Original quadruplane built by Matthew B Sellers in 7908 was the first airplane built in Kentucky (Photo Courtesy of Louisville and jefferson County Air Board)

original Spirit since 1928 The replica a Ryan B-1 was built in September

1929 by Ryan Aircraft of San Diego and is very similar to the original Ryan NYP Lindbergh flew on May 20-21 1927 from New York to Paris It incorporates the changes that Lindbergh had made for him for the hisshytoric transatlantic flight

Lindberghs plane had no forward-looking windows and he could see the ground only from a periscope and from door windows on the side of the fuselage

To provide additional space for fuel tanks Lindbergh had the plane built with a 46-foot wing span (the B-1 s wings were 42-feet wide)

In front of the pilots seat (which was made out of wicker) were an 89-gallon oil tank and a 201-gallon gas tank Including three wing tanks there was a total gasoshyline capacity of 451 gallons Lindbergh landed in Paris with 85 gallons of gas left (enough for nine more hours in the air) and had used only 5 gallons of oil

The oval-shaped instrument panel held only a turn and bank indicator a bubble-type inclinometer standard air speed altimeter clock tachometer oil pressure and temperature gauges and an earth indicator compas~ With the instrument panel starting at the cockpit roofline and dropping below the pilots knees Lindbergh had to use a periscope with a miniature screen to see forward

The St Louis replica is owned by the Missouri Hisshytorical Society and is on permanent loan to the airport It bought the plane in 1963 after a successful drive headed by the late Louis Werner chairman of the Missouri Historical Society Airplane Committee The plane was purchased from Paul Mantz a movie stunt man and collector of old planes for use in motion picshytures The society spent $8000 refurbishing the plane to fly The replica was flown by Albert W Lowe chief transport pilot for McDonnell-Douglas Corp at a special ceremony in St Louis on May 21 1967 commemoshyrating the 40th anniversary of Lindberghs epoch flight

The replica was stored in an aircraft-assembly buildshying at McDonnell-Douglas Corp until its installation at the St Louis airport and is in perfect shape due to the preventive maintenance performed there

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The quadruplane (four wing) aircraft was the fi rst airplane built in Kentucky and was designed and conshystructed by aviation pioneer Matthew B Sellers Jr in 1908 The replica on display in the main concourse of Lee Terminal at Standiford Field Louisville was built as a Bicentennial project by students of the Carter County Vocational School at Olive Hill Ky near the site where the original quadruplane was constructed and flown

Sellers is one of the lesser known but still important aviation figures of hi s time He was born in Baltimore in 1869 and from an early age showed an interest in flight experimenti ng with kites and hot air balloons He got a law degree from Harvard University in 1892 and for the next two years studied chemistry physics and mechanishycal arts at Harvard and at the Drexel Institute in Phil ashydelphia

By the time he was 24 he was experi menting with models of heavier-than-air flying machines about the same time that his family moved to Kentucky In 1897 he developed a blower to study air resistance to various shapes and later built a wind tunnel on his property near Grahn Ky In 1903 he built the first of a number of gliders but the first one proved a failure Sellers who had inherited a sizable fortune was deeply interested more in theories of flight rather than flying himself and much of his work was done in his own laboratory where he studied designs of wings and propellers

By 1907 he was building and flying full-size gliders and in 1908 he modified one of these four-winged gliders with a small French-made two-cylinder engine and a three-wheel chassis This aircraft was flown sucshycessfully on Dec 281908 from a hillside in Carter Cou nty Ky

Sellers worked for several more years in Kentucky on aeronautical projects and was awarded patents o n his planes mechanical innovations However he left Kenshytucky in grief in 1911 after an assistant was struck on the head by the planes propeller and was killed instantly

Sellers served as technical editor of a leading aviation magazine and in 1912 was appointed by President Taft to the Aerodynamic Laboratory Commission and later to the National Advisory Comm ittee for Aeronautics The committee later was reorganized and is known toshyday as the National Aeronautics and Space Administrashytion (NASA) Sellers continued to work in the fie ld of aeronautics until he died in 1932 In 1974 the airport at Olive Hill Ky was named in his ho nor

Below Photo showing Ryan NYP replica in process of being installed in the uncompleted wing of Lamshybert-St Louis Airport Photo by McDo nnell Douglas Corp

Above Photo of Ryan NYP replica being installed at St Louis airport (note tail skid not yet installed on replica) Photo by McDonnell Douglas Corp

Above jN-4D in the Denver Stapleton Airport

Below EE Buck Hilberts Swallow now owned by United Airlines is being sought for permanent display at Sdn Francisco International Airport Being shown here with the British-French Concorde at Dulles International Airport it illustrates the contrast of antiques and replishycas inside air terminals and the large airliners outside the terminals Photo by United Airlines

Members of the AntiqueClassic Division who know of other antiques or replicas on display throughout the world might want to let us know about it at the Vintage Airplane We would appreciate short articles telling about them and glossy prints showing them on display for future issues of this magazine

AI Kelch Editor

The replica was built by the vocational school stushydents from Sellers original plans and they used bamboo in its construction like with the original The replica has never been flown It was installed in Lee Terminal in September 1976 and tentative plans call for it to be eventually displayed in a museum dedicated to Sellers

The Curtiss Pusher displayed in the main lobby of the terminal at Oklahoma City was formally dedicated on July 20 1970 and has been hanging in the main lobby of Will Rogers World Airport terminal ever since Particishypating in the dedication was Billy Parker who built and flew the plane in 1914 while a high school student at Ft Collins CO

The plane which has a wingspan of 30 feet and is powered by a 90 horsepower OX-5 engine was donated to the City of Oklahoma City by the Phillips Petroleum Company

Parker built his own plane and taught himself to fly it in 1912 and the Curtiss Pusher N66U was one of two owned by Parker He held pilots license number 44 in his early years was a barnstormer received a commission in the Royal Flying Corps and instructed at a flying school at Dewey Okla Later he became manager of aviation for the Phillips Petroleum Company He also served as president of the Early Birds whose members were pilots who flew before Dec 17 1916 The Pusher was no hangar queen and Parker flew the Curtiss at many events including the 50th Anniversary of the Wright Brothers flight at Kitty Hawk

The Curtiss IN-4 Jenny on display on the lower level of the terminal at Denvers Stapleton International Airport is on temporary loan by the Colorado Chapter of the Antique Airplane Association

No decision has been made yet on the fi nal resting place of Buck Hilberts Swallow which was bought from him by United Airlines but it seems a good bet that it will wind up in San Francisco either in the terminal or in Uniteds Maintenance Operations Center there

Antiques and replicas make interesting drawing cards for commercial air terminals The quadruplane replica originally was scheduled to be removed from the terminal at Louisville this spring but the Louisville and Jefferson County Air Board found it such a big attracshytion that it asked the vocational school to extend its display in the terminal and the request was granted In one way at least some of the old planes will continue to be in the air if only with the help of wires~

The Spirit Of

ADlerican Youth 17 Year Old New Yorker

Flies Solo From San Francisco To New York Winter of 1928

By H Glenn Buffington Associate Editor

Sky View Apt No 207 878 West Crockett Street

Seattle WA 98779

Once upon a time the President of the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation spoke to the members of the Flying Club of Flushing (NY) High School and told of a pri ze of one thousand dollars that was being offered to the first boy or girl under eighteen to fly solo from San Francisco to New York For Dick James the adrenalin flowed as he realized such a flight was the challenge he wanted to accept All he needed was parental approval and backing It took a bit of salesshymanship in convincing his Dad but he was finally won over when Dick showed him how the experience would be beneficial in later years

Over four decades ago Dick wrote me regarding the flight I started for California to make the flight on August 2 1928 and landed back in New York on Decshyember 15 1928 spent quite a bit of time in Wichita Kansas and two months in San Francisco in preparation I flew a Travel Air with a Seimens-Halske radial 9 cylshyinder motor made in Germany and producing 125 horsepower covered about four thousand miles on the flight with an elapsed flying time of 40 hrs and 52

A boy and his love The Spirit of American Youth and her proud pilot Richard E James

minutes Here then is a more detailed account -shy

Westward Ho Dick had taken his early dual and advanced training

from Capt Fred Becker at Curtiss Field in Garden City however it was Oliver Young another New York pilot who accompanied the youth westward via train leaving August 2nd They arrived in Wichita and at the Travel Air factory three days later and when Walter Beech showed them the new airplane the senior J ames had bought Dick compared the experience to taking a ride on the shoots at Coney Island a real joyous occasion The finishing touches on the plane required another couple of days and then James and Young flew in the Wichita area a few more days practicing short landshyings and getting acquainted with the Travel Air Spirit before heading west for the higher altitudes and the mountaineous terrain

The hops westward were accomplished with no trouble as far as Reno as the fledgling acquired more flying experience However from Reno they neglected

to reach sufficient altitude and found it necessary to do some hedge-hopping through the railroad cuts in the mountains before reaching Sacramento They continued to Oakland the next day where they found the field crowded with spectators The word was out of the proposed solo fli ght by a junior pilot and people wantshyed to see the fool who was going to do it etc

The airplane was ferried over to San Francisco a few days later and Di ck met Frank Flynn who was to be his guardian until the start of the flight as Oliver Young had to return to the east Frank advised there had been a cancellation of the letter of authority from the Dept of Commerce in Washington DC so it was necessary for the aspiring pilot to satisfy the Commerce Inspector on the West Coast that he could make the long flight withshyout killing himself or any other person This was finally accomplished as the fall season came to a close The delay in starting led to some trials and tribuations for the young flier later on as he encountered inclement wintry weather especially in crossing the Rockies and Alleghenies

Meandering in the Mid-West

Enroute North Pl atte to Omaha the Spirit was forced down at Grand Island with a broken oil line which was easily fixed A very strong headwind prolongshyed the flight to Kansas City and being tired Dick failed to exercise the necessary precautions in landing resultshyin g in a blown tire The usual number of pessimists were around at most of the enroute stops but Dick finally became accustomed to them and paid little attention to their comments He chose to do h is best and let it go at that

The next day the eager pilot headed for St Louis where he stayed over night to atte nd a theatre party given by the boys at the field Early the next morning he flew to Peo ria where he was forced to stay a week as winter storms moved through the area

James had planned to fly to Chicago and attend the Aviation Show but he rece ived a telegram from his Dad advising the lower or southern route as there were several storms north which would delay the flight for another week or two Therefore Dick headed for Columbus Ohio after being forced down at Oakwood Illinois out of gas

Aloha to the Rescue Another telegram advised Dick his parents would

meet him in Columbus and the next day they arrived with Martin Jen sen in the Breese monoplane Aloha the plane which had placed second in the famed Dole Derby to Hawaii the previous year The following day the planes became separated flying out of Columbus and Dick returned to the airport Here is his account of ensu ing events

At nine oclock I started out again but had to turn back on account of low fog over the mountains At noon Dad called and said they had landed at Bellefonte Pennsylvania and for me to come through right away via Cleveland I went up to the Cleveland airport and had the ship checked but it was pretty late by the time I was ready to go so I called Dad and told him that I would stay there over night He did not like the idea and said to come through to Clarion Pa where they would meet me and show me the way to Bellefonte Orders were orders so I started out but had to land at Mercer as it was getting dark In the semi-darkness I picked out what I thought was a good field I prepared to land cutting the speed as much as possible by fishshytailing and slipping When I got all set to land I levelshy

East from the Golden Gate It was October 30th when Dick left the Bay Area for

his twenty-four stop journey to return to his homeport His suit coat and sweater a pair of flying boots and breeches in the open cockpit were adequate in the California climate however the garb left plenty to be desired in the higher altitudes and in the winter season He was to ex perience many many cold days enroute

The first night was spent in Sacramento where he was delayed because of weather cond itions He wanted to make the flight to Reno as early in the day as possible to take advantage of the calm morning air and started out with thirty gallons of gas and some candy to eat on the way in case of hunger pains From warnings he had expected the flight to be cold and lonesome however he admits to that leg as being the nicest part of the whole trip After a night in Reno he proceeded to Elko and then Salt Lake City where he was forced to stay a

Thrill ofa Lifetime

Dick james gets acquainted with the new Travel Air at the Wichita factory (A brand new Travel Air at age 77 WOW)

couple of days because of storms Finally getting a good weather report he flew to Rock Springs and then Rawlins Wyoming where again he was held up nine days because of snow storms During this delay and on his own volition Dick took the bus to Lander Wyoming to visit relatives Finally his Dad located him by phone telling him in no uncertain terms to return to the airshyplane and stay with the project The plane had been practically covered with snow as it was left out during the storms as there was no hangar

With the help of a good Samaritan he was able to get the cold Travel Air started and took off for Cheyenne However he did some lazy navigating and decided to follow the iron-beam only to take the wrong spur out of Laramie and located himself over Fort Collins Colorado from where he proceeded to Denver arriving with very little gas to spare From the Mile High City he continued to North Platte Nebraska

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ed out and waited for it to hit the ground and stop Th e wheel s hit the ground before the tail and sank to the hub s in th e soft dir t I had pi cked out a plowed field and didn t know it When the wheels stu ck th e tail went up in the air and over before I knew it I hung head down for a seco nd or two thinking and OH wh at I thought After I figured it all out I began to rea li ze that I was upside down and that the gas was beginning to leak out in front of me so I released the safety belt and fell out By this time th ere were quite a few people around asking if I was hurt When they found I was alright I asked them to help turn the ship back to its proper position I go t to a telephone and called Dad and Mother at Cl arion telling them what had happened Th ey told me to stay there and th ey would be right down to help They borrowed a ca r and came to the fi eld where we worked all night fixing up th e ship It had a broken propeller and a bent stru t but by noon th e next day I was ready to continue I was in such a rush to get away that again I negl ected to check the ship as I should have done so an hour after starting while in a snowstorm over one of the worst spots in the Alleghenies th e motor stopped dead Naturally the first thing I thought about was a place to land In that country it was like trying to find a needle in a haystack

The BIG Crack-up I had had plenty of sensations during my previous

flying but I had more thrills in the five minutes it took me to land than all the time before I immediately nosed the ship down to keep up flying speed and then looked for a possible place to land Right below I saw a field that though it did not look big enough to land in was the largest one within gliding distance It was up to me to maneuver the plane with dead motor to the field I went out over the trees as far as I dared then cut back to the field fish-tailing and slipping again to lose all speed gained on the glide I just cleared the trees at the end and was just leveling off for my landing when I noticed a fence and a ditch in front of me so I had to bounce the wheels on the ground to clear them all the time taking a chance of nosi ng over as I had done before I didnt quite clear the fence as the tail-skid caught and broke I again tried to level off without the motor and swung to the right to avoid a sink hole that had been left from mining operations In swinging one wing caught in the line of trees on the right and was pulled into them I finally managed to get my safety-belt loose and got out of the sh ip to see what damage had been done and

SPECIAL THANKS TO -shyDick James for past and present correspondence and pictures and his account of the flight in AERO MECHANICS December 1929 Vio la Gentrys HANGAR FLYING and her account of the flight Kenn Rust for the Frank Goldsborough picture

Glenn Buffington

day The next day we sent four men to the sh ip to tear it

apart and bring it back to town where we were staying Martin and I then started for Hagerstown Md in his sh ip to get the necessary parts to fix mine up When we got back that night the men had the ship in one of the garages in the little town of Kylertown where we could fix it

We spent a whole week there working night and day Finally it was all set to go again I took it up for a short flight and it flew a lot different than the last time I had flown it We could not find a German propell er for it so had to put on an old OX-S prop It was turning up 1400 revolutions wh en it should have turned up at least 1800 but it flew and th at was all I cared about at th e tim e

The engine stoppage had been ca used by a malfuncshy

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Above Frank Goldsborough and the Amerishycan Boy of whom Dick wrote We were in High School together belonged to the same Flying Club and were almost as brothers for about three years Frank set the first junior round-trip transcontinental record in May 7930shy

34 hrs 3 min NY to LA and 28 hrs 78 min LA to NY

believe me it looked like a total wreck The wings had all been broken somewhat by the trees the propeller was broken and also the motor mount and tail-skid

Martin had been flying alongside up to this time but had gotten a little ahead of me and had not noticed I was missing until he landed at Bellefonte I tried to find a phone to let th em know what had happened but after trying for about three hours I gave up to wait until they came back for me Finally th ey located the wreck and began to circl e around to find a fi eld in which to land They located a small spot fifteen miles away and land ed there Then they took an hour trying to get to me with a car because th ose mountains sure look alike When they located me th ey asked if I was hurt and again I was lucky to be able to say No Martin mad e a list of the things he needed to fix up th e ship and we all left fo r th e nea rest town pl anning to go back aft er the ship th e nex t

tioning wind-driven fuel pump damaged during the previous forced landing

Home with Victory The Sprirt was flown to Sunbury Pa followed by

a hop over New Jersey and then across Staten I sland to the homeport Curtiss Field Dick landed amidst a great tumult of well-wishers was picked up by the county police and driven to New York in an open car for a reception with the then-Mayor Jimmy Walker Howeve r it was Charley Hand who greeted the young hero as Walker had a previous engagement as Dick had kept him waiting too long

Dick was given the keys to the City and the tickershytape ride from the Battery and everything that goes with it Subsequently he was presented the $1000 check by Thomas L Hill President of the American Society for the Promotion of Aviation at a luncheon at the Roosevelt Hotel also a loving cup by Dr KG Frank of the SiemensmiddotHalske Motor Company A few days later he was flown by Martin Jensen in the Aloha to Washshyington DC and was presented to President Calvin Coolidge at the White House It was a fitting climax to a flight which had taken much ingenuity and fortitude The historic flight was the culmination of an ambition by one of the early-on junior pilots of America

Epilogue Dick J ames flight helped to inspire other youthful

pilots and subsequent round-trip coast-to-coast record flights were made by a close friend Frank Goldsborough in a Kinner Fleet Eddie Schneider Cessna AW Robert N Buck J-5 Pitcairn and Stanley Boynton Cessna DC-6B All these flights were flown during the year of 1930

Dick worked five years at Grumman (1940-45) as Chief Flight Inspector he was the last one to okay airshyplanes for flight and delivery to the Navy -- physical check not flight He spent six years with Coil Winders I nc electron ics manufacturers as Sales Manager and Vice-President of Sales and another ten years with Northfield Precision I nstrument Corp as salesman Sales Manager and finally last six years as Vice-President Sales Retiring in 71 he moved to Phoenix Arizona in 73 Present hobbies are ceramics photography and bowling and just recently he came out of retirement to establish a mail order business to help combat some rising family medical expenses We certainly wish him well with this new venture ~

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Rirmail August 15 1977

JR Nielander Jr President AntiqueClassic Division of The Experimental Aircraft Association PO Box 229 Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130

Dear Mr Nielander

Several copies of the Lindbergh Commemorative issue of your publication The Vintage Airplane were given to me when I was attending the Oshkosh EAA meeting last week

In reading the article entitled Lindberghs Great Partner by Frank Parker Stockbridge I was surshyprised at three quite ridiculous errors On 2 far right column second paragraph first sentence says-shyThe fuselage or body of the plane is suspended from the wi ngs by wooden struts The facts arc - the struts were steel round in cross section faired with balsa making a streamlined shape

On the eleventh line of that same paragraph referring to the elevators and rudder it says -- are of wood covered with fabric The facts are those surfaces were of steel tubing frame construction with fabric covering

On Page 15 left column top paragraph it says -shyThe heavy wooden legs to which the landing wheels are attached The facts are the landing gear struts (or legs) were of steel

Very truly yours RYSON AVIATION CORP

T Claude Ryan President

TCRjbe cc Dave Fox

October 14 1977

Mr T Claude Ryan President RYSON Aviation Corp 548 San Fernando Street San Diego California 92106

Dear Mr Ryan

With reference to the article in the July issue of THE VINTAGE AI RPLANE titled Lindberghs Great Partner I am in complete agreement with you that the errors there are ridiculous and in fact our editor was quite aware of these errors when he printed the article However he felt that the historishycal signifiance of the article far outweighed any inshyaccuracy

If you will re-check page 3 of the July edition of THE VINTAGE AI RPLANE you will note in the box an editors note which states that the articles in this particular issue came from POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHL Y magazine and were originally printed in 1927 and 1928 That article on page 3 from the caption at the top was in the April 1928 edition All of the other articles in that July edition are also from POPULAR SCI ENCE MONTHL( with the exshyception of the article starting on page 21 which was reprinted from the SMITHSONIAN magazine so actually these errors were made by Mr Stockbridge shortly after the time that Lindbergh made the flight I n fact I imagine if you probe way back in your memory sir you will remember that you probably read POPULAR SCI ENCE MONTHLY in those days You probably read Mr Stockbridges article that

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originally was printed and you probably had the same dismay at the thought of the errors back then

Mr Ryan it certainly is a pleasure to hear from you and I certainly did enjoy the opportunity of meeting you again at the convention this year and having an opportunity to talk with you for a few minutes I hope youll be able to make our convenshytion again next year If so Ill look forward to seeing you and I hope that maybe if we reprint any more articles on Lindbergh well be able to find some that are technically correct I know we would all prefer that and I know it ould make you much happier

Again thanks for writing Sincerely

JR Nielander Jr President

I RNsw

August 8 1977

Mr J R Nielander co AntiqueClassic Div EAA Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130

Dear Mr Nielander

Congatulations on a most successful Oshkosh 77

You and your colleagues are certainly to be comshymended for the generosity shown in inviti ng our Cessna 120140 Association and the West Coast Club to participate in our type forums

The tent seating PA system and especially the EAA officer in charge all combined for excellent facilities and management of the meetings

Although the West Coast representative was unable to come to Oshkosh we got an alternate from our ranks so the time was well spent on the intended type

Thanks again for your cooperation generosity and efficient planning We are already looking forward to Oshkosh 78

Yours truly

Tom Teegarden (No 2540) Director Past President Cessna 1201 40 Assoc Box 92 Richardson TX 75080

PO Box 57 Melbourne Airport

TULLAMARINE VIC 3045

22nd September 1 977

Mr J R Nielander Jr PO Box 2464 FT LAUDERDALE FLA 33303 USA

Dear Mr Nielander

The above Association has been following with interest the discussions that have been conducted in The Vintage Airplane about the scarcity of old aeroplanes for restoration

Please dont come to Austral ia and try to take ours the few we have are now on the prohibited exshyport list The Commonwealth Government at our inshystigation and pressure has stopped the outflow of old aircra ft

Dont think too badly of us for this action but we need all the old planes we have still got Our motto is Keep the Old Birds Flying and that is what we are trying to do

Enclosed is a copy of our latest newsletter which might interest you

Kind regards

W Baker Honorary Secreta ry

Valda Robertson Auckland New Zealand 20th September 1977

Dear J R

Myles always seems to be racking the clock so he had delegated me a pi Ie of overdue letters to write

A lot of progress has been made since you were down our way Possibly you have heard bits and pieces so Ill fil l in the details briefly After comshypleting BFP (Moth Minor under constructio n while you were here) Myles dida repeat performance on AKM She was completed late in February Prior to reb uilding the latter we sloshed in mud wind and rain building a hangar at Dairy Flat Airfield - 20 minshyutes North and much handier than Ardmore

This year the pace has been on Four Foxmoth fuselages are underway - at present they are ready for assembly Our No1 hangar was looking more like an aircraft factory geared up with machines jigs etc so a diversion from operation Foxmoths was made to build a similar hangar next door Stan Smith has also built a hangar next door so things are really happenshying Now that construction work is over the hangars have been cleared out ready for action

Our Air Department has settled down and they are far more co-operative Stan and Myles are working well together which also helps progress

We did have a slight diversion - 2nd July we were married and had an informal friendly wedding with a minimum of hustles - a lot of fun Myles was pleased that it didnt interrupt too much He came away on a Hong Kong flight with me the next week I was workshying but we have four days off up there so we had a pleasant break

Odd snippets of news reach us from time to time of the Antique scene in USA - hope you all had a successful season Perhaps Myles will make Oshkosh next year

Well J R this will catch you up briefly on our news You must be due for another visit down under to see what it is like when it isnt raining We are slightly more organized these days - would love you to visit

Kindest regards

Valda amp Myles Robertson

Auckland New Zealand

Roy Oberg 8040 Shadybrook S E

Ada Mich 49301 No 5000

Dear Mr Nielander

Please find my enclosed dues for another year to The Vintage News I certainly have enjoyed the magazine and like the new format my hat is off to you and all the others that make it possib le

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I have had many a chuckle from your Oct 76 Article and subsequent letters as to the intenders and the doers I can only comment that there would be one hell of a lot less doers if it were not for the intenders locating dismantling and storing the old goodies Just ask the Wegners Williams et al where they got their pride and joys Just some food for thought

Sincerely

Roy Oberg

Ps Ive been in both camps

June 15 1977

Dear Sir

The Seminole Air Force is collecting Prayers amp Poems for Airmen The collection will be compiled into a booklet and presented to the Experimental Airshycraft Association for printing and subsequent sale by them The profit from the booklet sale will be used by the EAA for the EAA Museum and other EAA educational projects

The Seminole Air Force is writing all those with an interest in aviation for any material they might have that could be used in the booklet

As far as we know no publication of Prayers amp Poems for Airmen exists and the EAA Booklet will contain in one collection some very beautiful Prayers amp Poems for Airmen written for and by those who love flying and the Aviation world

Proper credits will be given in the booklet and releases for original works are solicited

I am a Princess in the mythical Seminole Air Force (We are Chapter 565 EAA) and would appreciate your help in this project All material will be acshyknowledged by return mail Thank you

Sincerely

Mrs Ruth Jobes 25 Estate Drive

North Fort Myers Florida 33903

October 4 1977

Mr JR Nielander Jr EAA Antique Classic Division PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53120

Dear Mr Nielander

Received your letter of September 23 thanking me for my efforts during the EAA Convention

Certainly no thanks is needed in this instance since I personally was happy to do it and quite frankly it made the convention more meaningful to me being a more active part of it

Sincerely

Ed Swearingen

EOSpk

NOMINATIONS FOR EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION

OFFICERS AND DIRECTORS

In accordance with the Division By-Laws as amendshyed the terms of two officers and four directors will expire at the 1978 EAA AntiqueClassic Division Annual Business Meeting to be held on August 5 1978 at Oshshykosh Wisconsin during the 26th EAA International Fly-In Convention Those offices which will expire are

PRESIDENT J R N ielander Jr

SECRETARY W Brad Thomas Jr

DIRECTORS AI Kelch

Morton W Lester

Arthur R Morgan

Me Kelly Viets

All of the incumbents have indicated that they will be candidates for reelection Additional nominations for these offices shall be made on official nomination forms obtainable from the headquarters of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc PO Box 229 Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 The nominating petition shall include

a recent photograph of the candidate and shall contain a brief resume of his background and experience Candishydates must have been members of the EAA Antique Classic Division in good standing for the previous two consecutive years Each petition requires a minimum of ten (10) signatures of EAA AntiqueClassic Division members in good standing with their Division membershyship number and expiration date

Nominating petitions must be submitted to the Chairshyman of the Nominating Committee EAA Antique Classic Division co EAA Headquarters no later than March 8 1978 Voting instructions and procedures will be published in a later issue of THE VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE

Calendar of Events

January 23-29 1978 shy Sun n Fun Fly-In Lakeshyland Florida

May 26-29 1978shy Monocoupe Club and Ryan Club Fly-In Dacy Airport Harvard Illinois

June 23-25 1978 shy National Waco Club FlyshyIn Hamilton Airport Hamilton Ohio

July 8-9 1978 shy National Stinson Club Fly-In Minden Nebraska

July 29-Aug 5 1978 - Experimental Aircraft Asshysociation Convention and Fly-I n Wittman Field Oshkosh Wisconsin

Aug 27 -Sept 4 1978 - Antique Airplane Associashytion Convention Antique Airfield Blakesburg Iowa

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