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EDITORIALSTAFFPublisher

Tom Poberezny

October 1994 Vol. 22, No. 10

Vice-President ,Marketing and Communications

Dick MattEditor-in-Chief

Jack Cox

EditorHenry G . Frautschy

Managing EditorGolda Cox

Art DirectorMike Drucks

Computer Graphic SpecialistsSara Hansen

Olivia L Phillip Jennifer LarsenAdvertisingMary Jones

Associate EditorNorm PetersenFeature Writers

George Hardie, Jr. Dennis ParksStaff Photographers

Jim Koepnick Mike SteinekeCarl Schuppel Donna Bushman

Editorial AssistantIsabelle Wiske

EAAANTIQUE/ CLASSIC DIVISION, INC.OFFICERS

President Vice-Pres identEspie 'Butch ' Joyce Arthur Mor\lan

604 Highway St W211 Nl1863 Hilltop Dr.Madison. NC 27025 Gemnantown. WI 53022

919/427-0216 414/628-2724

Secretary reasurerSteve Nesse E.E. 'Buck ' Hilbert

2009 Highland Ave. P.O. Box 424Albert Lea. MN 5tl:XJ7 Union.IL 60180

507/373-1674 815/923-4591

DIRECTORSJohn Berendt Robert C. ' Bob' Brauer

7645 Echo Point Rd. 9345 S HoyneCannon Falls. MN 55009 C h i c a ~ oIL 60620

507/263-2414 312/ 79-2105Gene Chose John S . Copeland

2159 Carlton Rd. 28-3 Williamsbur8 Ct.Oshkosh. WI 54904 Shrewsbury. MA 1545

414/231-5002 508/842-7867Phil Coulson George Doubner

28415 Springbrook Dr. 2448 Lough LaneLawton. MI49065 Hartford . WI53027

616/624-6490 414/673-5885Charles Hanris Stan Gomoll

7215 East 46th St. 1042 90th Lane. NETulsa. OK 74145 Minneapolis. MN 55434

918/622-8400 612/784-1172Dale A . Gustatson Jeannie Hill7724 Shady HillDr. P.O. Box 328

Indianapolis. IN 46278 Harvard. IL60033317/293-4430 815/943-7205

Robert liCktei g Robert D. ' Bob' Lumley1708 Bay Oaks r. 1265 South 1241h St.

Albert Lea. MN 5tl:XJ7 Brookfield . WI 53005507/373-2922 414/7822633

CONTENTS1 Straight & Level /

Es pie " Butch " Jo yce

2 AlC News /Compil ed b y H .G . Fr aut schy

3 Aeromail

4 A.D. Notes and You /Bill C lax on Page 6

6 Aircraft Antenna sfor the Pilot -Part W ill Butt e rs

9 Something Old, Something NewEAA OSHKOSH '94/H G. Fra ut schy

20 Like Father . . . /H. G . Fra ut sch y Page 9

25 My ste ry Airplane /George H ardi e

25 Pass it to BucklE.E. " Buck " Hilb er t

28 Welcome New Members

29 AlC Calendar

30 Vintage Trader Page 20

FRONT COVER . . The winner of the Grand Champion AntiqueLindbe rgh trophy a t EAA OS HKOSH '94. this is Tom D. Baker. Jr. andhis 1941 BL-65 Taylorcraft . EAA ph o to by Jim Koep nick . Shot wi th aCanon EO S-1 equipped wit h an 80-200mm I f2 .8 lens . 1 / 250 a t f8on Kodak Ektachrome Lumiere 100 film. Cessna 210 photo planepiloted by Bruce Moore.

BACK COVER The only Curtiss Robin on Edo M -2665 floats of thesame vintage wa s awarded the first -ever G rand ChampionSeaplane Lindy The Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R
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STRAIGHT LEVELby Espie "Butch" Joyce

Each year during the last weekendof September, the North Carolina Department of Transportation Divisionof Aviation, in cooperation with theFAA , hosts a North Carolina coastalair tour. In the past, I 'd never flownon this tour. With the Fall weatherhere in the Carolinas having been sonice , I decided we would do it thisyear.

We loaded up the Baron and departed the afternoon of September 23for Manteo, NC. After landing atDare County Airport we registeredwith the group and drove over to ourhotel at Nags Head, located on theouter banks of North Carolina. Nags

Head at one time was a pirates hangout. Blackbeard and his crew, amongothers , harbored there on the inletside. The town was called Nags Headbecause they would hang a lanternaround the head of an old nag andwalk it up and down the sand dunes

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went back to England and when he returned, everyone was gone. For manyyears a play, The Lost Colony, hasbeen s taged dur ing the summermonths to dramatize what might havehappened to the colony. Years earl ier, my dad told me that he knewwhat had happened to them - themosquitoes carried them off

We departed Saturday morning flying in trail down the beach side of theouter banks.

The State and FAA had cleared therestricted areas and MOAs in the areafor us. Nearly 100 airplanes flew intrail down the coast. We all landed atBeaufort , North Carolina where we

were on our own to track down lunch.Beaufort, s an old whaling village dating back to the 1740s. Lunch on thewater there was great and a walkingtour of the historical area was fun.

We then d e p a r t e d Be a u f o r t forWilmington, North Carolina for a stay

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past Convention to help us determinewhat th ings can be done to makeE A A Oshkosh '95 even more enjoyable for our membership. Any itemsthat need correcting, from a groundsor physical plan t (bui ld ings , etc.)s tandpoint need to be taken care ofearly, because of the long winter season in Oshkosh.

A nother i tem of in te res t to themembership up for discussion at theBoard meeting will be our dues structure. Your dues at this time are $20.00per year. In 1993 it cost the Antique/Classic Division almost $25.00to service each member. We havebeen able to offset this extra expense

because of the advert is ing incomef rom V I N TA G E A I R P L A N E andthe merchandise sales during the year,most of which occurs at Oshkosh ateach year's Convention. We are nowstart ing to lose ground, because ofprinting expense, postage and otheri W ' b d i d th t


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compiled by H.G. Frautschy

NEW ARTWORK FORVINTAGE AIRPLANE

You may notice as you peruse thepages of this month ' s VINTAGE AIRPLANE that there is some new artwork

gracing the pages of Mystery Plane , Welcome New Me mbers and the Fly-In Calendar. Long time EAA and member JimNewman , who has volunteered his services in the past for EAA, has graciouslyconsented to work up some drawings forus when we could use his deft pen andink touch. His first efforts were directedtowards sprucing up the heads of a few ofour columns , and next month , you'll seethe fruits of his technical illustrationlabors . Many readers may recall the intricate drawing of the Laird Super Solution for EAA's book on the creation ofthe Solution replica - it too was the creation of this talented man. Jim ' s vocation is as an artist, and he excels at technical illustration , a form of industrial artJim has been working at for most of his

long career. f you think your companycould use someone as talented as Jim foryour project , you can contact him in Hobart , IN at 219 /942-2571. His volunteerefforts for the Division are appreciated

H E l l O COURIER TYPECERTIFICATE SOLD

Helio Enterprises , Inc. of 17644 SE293rd Place, Kent, W A 98042 has purchased the type certificate, drawings, engineering data and production toolingfor the complete line of Helio aircraft.Helio is current ly putting a plan togetherto support the approximately 250 Couri

gating the possibility of putting the airplane back into production. You cancontact them at 206/639-1446 or fax at206/639-0332.

CESSNA 170 STCBarnstormer Aviation, who has al

ready obtained STC approval for alternator installations in the Aircoupe andCessna 12 114 114 A has announced theavailability of an STC for installation ofa 60 amp a l t e rna to r on the Cessna170/170A/170B. For more information ,contact Fred Lagno at BarnstormersAvia t ion , 911 Sportsman Neck Rd. ,Queenstown, MD 21658 or call 410 /8277896.

KEEP LORAN GOING!

The U.S. Coast Guard is consideringthe termination of the Loran C system,

which would leave a large number ofusers holding the bag with useless equipment. Aviation, marine and and manyother users find th e Loran C system tobe perfectly adequate for their needs.The Wild Goose Association collectedover 4,500 sig natur es on a petition support ing the Loran C system at EAAOSHKOSH '94. EAA, while certainlyrecognizing that GPS will be the navigation system of the future , supports thecontinued maintenance of the Loran Csystem. You can address your commentsabout Loran C to: Mr. Frank Kruesi, Assistant Secretary for Transportation policy, U.S. Department of Transportation,400 7th Street SW , Washington , DC

NASM NEEDS HELPTO DISPLAY

BETTY SKELTON'S PITTS

Curators and volunteers at the Smithsonian 's National Air and Space Museumare working to prepare Betty Skelton'sPitts Special for display. The Pitts,dubbed " Little Stinker was the airplaneused by Betty to win the National Aero

batic Championships in 1948, '49 and1950. t is the second Pitts Special builtby Curtiss Pitts in 1946 and so ld originallyto Jess Bristow, who had Curtiss ' friendPhil Quigley fly the biplane in airshowsduring 1947 . When bought by Betty in1948, she immediately started to use it forher own airshow and competition work,and in doing so she set the world of aerobatics on its ear. The small biplane woulddominate the world aerobatic scene formany years to follow .

When first built by Curtiss, the secondPitts had a Continental C-85-8F5 engine .Later, she had a Continental C-90-8FJfuel injected engine installed (the sameengine as in an Aeronca L-16) swinging a


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DART NOTE

Dear Editor,

The article in the July issue of SPORTA VIA n O N about Allen Johnson's Dartwas most interest ing to me. While I wasa student at Parks Air College (now partof St. Louis University) in 1936-'37 and'38, I was given the job of forming newcylinder head baffles for Monocoupe.The new ones directed the airflow down

toward the rear spark plugs where thethermocouples were located on Lambertengines. No doubt this was one of AlMooney's ideas. Also while a student, agroup of us saw the twin Monocoach atthe Monocoupe factory. At that time wedidn't know who Al Mooney was.

After graduating from Parks in 1938,Oliver Parks got me a job with Dart Mfg.Co. in Columbus , Ohio. They wantedsomeone who could do sheet metal work.There were 12 to 15 of us in the wholefactory: Al and Art Mooney , Bill McMahon, Charlie Jamieson , Karl Repple , BobHale , myself and a few others. Charlie ,Karl , Bob and I were all Parks graduates.Believe me, each Dart was handmade.One particular one gave us a real problem ; the bolt holes in the fuselage for the

wing spar didn ' t line up with the holes inthe big aluminum boss in the spar. After

agonizing for awhile , Al Mooney said toput undrilled bosses in the wing and linedrill them. Of course that worked.

My first job was to make the wing rootfairings, which are about five feet longand full of compound curves. That ' swhen I started to learn a little about moving sheet metal around. I never did getone as good as I wanted.

The " D windows on Allen's Dartwere not original but they are a nice addition. He surely did a beautiful job

restoring this historic airplane.One open cockpit Dart was suspendedfrom the ceiling of Foster Lane's part ofthe hangar. t had a lop-eared jackasspainted on the tail with a halo around itshead. Wonder what became of it.

Al Mooney was a wonderful guy buthad a shor t fuse at times. One time SpeedWycoff , our part-time salesman and testpilot , said the public would like to seecertain changes in the Dart. Al said , "Tohell with the public! We build good airplanes. The public can take it or leaveit "

We put a 165 Warner in one specialbuilt clipped-wing Dart. t also had a pegleg landing gear. We built the specialwings in one week. t still wasn't as fastas the clipped-wing Monocoupe we foundout one day during the race at Columbus .We also built a pair of wings for the Dart

that had the retractable landing gear likethe Bellanca. I do n ' t think they wereever used; someone correct me if I 'mwrong. I left the company about thattime in 1940 but not before we built andtested the new Culver Cadet. I made thefirst nose cowl for the Cadet by poundingtwo pieces of .040 2S0 aluminum into afemale form, then welded the two halvestogether and then I pounded some more .I also made gear leg fairings that lookedgood and almost enclosed the gear when

retracted. Didn't help the speed a bit, sowe didn't use them.The Cadet had some bad spins at aft

CG. On one test flight the pilot had todeploy the spin chute to stop the spin. tstopped the spin ok but tore off part ofthe plane and came floating down over aprison. Caused quite a little excitement!On another flight , or maybe the sameone , the vertical fin spar broke right atthe base but stayed in place. The pilotlanded safely and shut it down way outon the field. We towed it in so the publicwouldn ' t see what happened.

The reason I quit Culver in 1940 wasto increase my income . I was being paid$75.00 per month. I went to work inTuscaloosa , Alabama, helping maintain afleet of Stearmans and CPT planes. Inthe meantime , Culver got the contract forthe PQ8s and moved to Wichita. In early1941 they called me and offered me afabulous salary of $200 .00 per month tocome to Wichita as foreman of the sheetmetal department ; I made the move.There were about 30 sheet metal workersin that department I soon found out


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A D Sheld liable, many are no longer in existence. t is sad to see so many of the oldcompanies go by the wayside , but the realities of economics sometimes dictate theirdemise . Normally, most of these olderaircraft have had most, if not all of theiroutstanding ADs complied with, but some

do slip through the cracks, and occasionally there are some ADs coming down thepike s age catches up with them.

t is interesting to note that on many ofthese older airplanes most of the ADswere small and inexpensive, compared tothe notes issued on the modern airplanes .I have wondered about this and found apart of the answer. High PerformanceSome of this is a result of the pursuit ofever higher performance envelopes . Toaccomplish this, the manufacturers havehad to make compromises. One of theseis a reduction in weight which has resultedin a reduction in strength in some areas.As pilots push the airplane ever closer andcloser to the edge of the operating en -velope (and sometimes beyond) we arestressing the airplane . But these operat-

ing envelopes are the desires of the potential customer, so the manufacturer tries tooblige. AD notes are one of the resultsfrom these fulfilled desires, and are beingpaid for in part by increased and expensive AD s . A clear example is the con-stant-speed propellers used on many modern general aviation aircraft. If you lookat the older Hamilton Standa rd props onthe " more experienced" aircraft you will

be hard pressed to find AD notes. Butlook at the modern props and you will seean abundance of expensive AD notes .Why? The manufacturers are calling forlighter weight props to help enhance theperformance of their new aircraft. The selighter props are blessed with lower TBOsand more bulletins . Just a part of the costof high performance

Most of these newer aircraft have afairly good set of maintenance recordswhen compared to some of our antiquesand classics. This a function , in part , oftime in service and methods of mainte-nance record keeping. Many of these airplanes go back decad e s and some of th erecords have been lost or destroyed in


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D NOTES COMPLI NCE RE ORD

Page _ _ of _ _ Date 2:3 Mar 8 6

Registration No. N94017

AlC Certification Date 9-46

MakelModel ErcQupe 415C

Engine Model Cont. C-75-12

SIN 1579-6-12

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Aircraft Antennas for the PilotP RT II

by ill Butters Technical CoordinatorAdvanced Aircraft Electronics, Inc.

Antenna Types

Le t ' s take a look at the types of antennas that you might select for installation in an airframe. There are two basictypes that are practical, so we'll highlightthese. The first type is called the quarter-wav e ground plane and the second isthe half-wave dipole. Each has featureswhich le nd themselves to certain typ esof installations.

becomes progressively less. All the radioenergy has to go somewhere, so when us-ing the sma ller gro und plane the energyis reflected back to the radio (rememberimpedance m atching). In receive, it reflects back into free space and is lost.

In a composite , fabric or wood aircraft it becomes apparent that the standard quarter wave antenna won t workwell because there isn t much metal to

mount the antenna. We solve this prob

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The drawing (Figure 2) shows thesame radiation but notice that there isn ' ta ground plane , with its phantom quarter-wav e imag e. The ante nn a itself iscomplete and operates as a stand alonesystem, not requiring the additionalmetal. This feat ur e makes the dipole anideal candidate for any st ructur e withouta metal ski n.

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Installation

Now we get to the good part , installingthe antennas.

For you metal airplane drivers, the installation is straightforward. The com-munication antenna goes up and downand the V O R antenna goes sideways.Remember , however , your metal skin isthe ground plane which has RF currentsflowing as part of the antenna's function.This ground plane requirement is muchlarger than most people realize and thismeans for best operation the mountingsurface must be large, as flat as possible,and have good continuous RF continuity.

Non-metal aircraft people have differ

curren ts , which are circulating on thegro und p la ne , microscopic high resistancepaths play h avoc with t he antenna opera-tion. The e m bedded screen wire or foilswhich depe nd on only mechanica l contactfor continuous electrical conductivity caneasily degrade to a group of wires withrandom electrical conductivity.

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the air-frame requires some thought and plan-ning because the various metal conduc-tive components scattered around causethe antenna to perform in unpredictableways

and the distance between the float andwood. I f the two are close, the wood

shadows the wave from the float. f

the float is positioned farther from thewood, the waves begin to effect the float(diffraction in the EM world).

t is a similar situation with your an -tenna in the composite aircraft. There isa main source of RF signal that is seen bythe antenna and then there are weakersources that reflect and diffract from thevar ious metal th ings in the ai rframe.Items like control cables , metal tubingand wires which are close (15 inches to 25inches) and parallel to the antenna havea more pronounced effect on the opera-tion than those things which are not par-


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EAAOSHKOSH'9 certainlyhada lot to offerthe Antique/Classicmemberwhenit came toa widespectrumofaircraft. Youcan see in the photo

aboveoneof the modernera's symbolsofadvanced technology, thesupersonicConcorde,zippingpast the middleof the Antique/Classicparkingarea.

Onceagain, we werefortunateto haveat least twoone-of-a-kindantiqueairplanesin attendance,and we certainlywishto extendour thanksto all ofyou

whoflewinto thisyear'sConvention. The Divisionofficersand volunteerswouldliketo extenda big "Thank You" to thoseofyou whoparkedin the"deep South" foryour patienceand understandingas EAAand the Divisionwork towardsprovidingmore services toa rapidlyexpandingpartof

the Conventiongrounds! In the next pages, you'llsee someof the highlightsof thisyear'sConvention.

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Antique - Gerald Hanson s Beechcraft G-17S,was once the Beech corporate airplane assigned to Walter Beech himself


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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoringthe EAA's Taylor E-2 Cub, which was displayed next to theEAA Chapter house during the Convention .

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollison ' s 1929 LCRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane

trophy. Bui lt from the last remaining parts from the Lairdfactory , the airplane was completed and flown for the firstt ime in 1993 .

(Above) The winner of the unofficialM os t Unusual Pitot Tube Cover

award this year, this shark looks as

though i t 's biting off more than itcan chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaar's1944 Stearma n

(Right) The spectacular PT-13DStearman of Duane Huff, Oakdale,CA was the Champion Custom Antique award.


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(Above) Ronald F. VanKregten is the owner of this exHoward Hughes amphibion, the Sikorsky S-43. Built in1937 , Hughes intended to fly it to set a 'round-the-worldrecord, but the flight never took place with this airplane.Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention,along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others.

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(Left) The Silver Age Runner-up is this pretty Bird ModelC biplane owned and flown by John Woodford of Madison,WI.

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(Above) Brad Thomas ' Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was se

lected as the Bronze Age Runner-up. From Pilot Mountain, NC, Brad started therestoration a number of years ago, and then had Bern Do c Vocke of Sandwich ,IL complete the job.

(Right) Airplanes inspir e all sorts of individuals. Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboken, NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasmfor airplanes during his vacation.


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(Above and right) John and Kathy McMurray, Burkburnett, TX are thelucky owners and restorers of this Luscombe BE, which happens to bethe prototype E model. It was presented with the Best Custom Class BClassic trophy. It too has been in continuous use (except, of course,while it was being restored) since it was first built in 1946.

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet, and Jerry andDelores Adkisson of Tuscola, IL always turn heads when they travel intheir Luscombe BF, awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Conven-tion.

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Bend, IN came to Oshkosh in his dad's Cessna140. He spent a little time perched up on thefuselage to watch the afternoon airshow.

(Above) They ' re rare, but they are still outthere This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown byAndrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville, OH hasnever been restored - i t still looks this good af-ter being continuously maintained for 47 years


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(Above, left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belong-ing to David Cohn of Cambridge, M was parked in thesouth 40 showplane camping area.

(Above) E.E. Buck Hilbert brought home th Classic BestClass II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan. It was restored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville, OH.

(Left) Frank Sperandeo III, Fayetteville, AR did a masterfuljob on all the details of his Piper PA-22120 Pacer. He was

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area wasthis 1946 Thorp T211 , now completely restored and flyingby Richard Eklund of Lockeford, CA .


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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster, N recently becameone of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna

172, selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Con-temporary.

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged tobe the Outstanding Customized Contemporary air-plane at EAA OSHKOSH 94. I t was brought to theConvention by Sean Campbell, Corona Del Mar, CA.

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(Above) "Crash and Burn Freddie' (aka Fred Sopko) of Flag-town, NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Con

vention Taxiway. "Freddie" came to us from EAA Chapter 643in Flemington, NJ. I wonder if he dresses tha t way for theChapter meetings?

(Left) George Mesiarik , vice-president of LP Aero Plast icsshow how it is done in his seminar on installing windows andwindshields, held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn.

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Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls, Ontario Canada and his richly deserved BestFabric Seaplane award.

able condition After going around fornearly a year, FAA finally relentedand issued the airworthiness certificatefor the combination of Robin and M2665 floats. The FAA inspector' s finalwords were, "I 'm on call this weekend.

you fly the Robin on floats this weekend, I don't want any phone calls "

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (andfloats) off the dolly at the OwatonnaAirport and headed for the lake wherehe made a near perfect landing . Theold girl flies like it was built for floatsand Buzz says it does a very creditab lejob. He is quite amazed at the economy of the 540 cu. in. engine as he flewnon-stop to Oshkosh with plenty off l h

amphibian, NCI94M, and a 1936 WacoZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats, N330TC ,ex. CF-BBQ (nic -named "Old Bar-BQue" in Canada). That ' s pretty nicecompany

Best Fabric Seaplane Awardwas taken home by Arnie Procyshen ofKakabecka Falls, Ontario, Canada,with his magnificently restored 1947Piper PA-l l , C-FPNL, mounted on apair of Edo 60-1320 floats. Arnie,whose surname is of Ukranian originGust like Poberezny), is most unique in

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Heinz Peier s Grumman Goose was picked asthe best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH '94.

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(Left) Harold Dee, one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base, gets to wear manyhats, like most EAA Chairmen. Here, he s on lagoon patrol to help move pilots andsupplies to their airplanes.

plete the job. All joints were sealedwith PRC compound and zinc chromate tape. He is especially pleasedwith the floats, despite the long hoursof rebuilding, because they are reallytight and perform better than ever.

What was the toughest job? According to Arnie, it was waiting nervously during the award ceremony atthe Theater-In-The-woods and whenhis name was called, the old knees starting shaking as he walked up the stairsand his throat and mouth felt like they

were full of cotton. However, he says itwas worth every heartbeat and the joyof taking the award home for the BestFabric Seap lane at EAA OSHKOSH'94 was the highlight of his life. Congrat ul ations, Arnie, on a restorationjob well done.

The Goose was flown to Chino ,CA, where Heinz went to work on a total restoration of the old girl. I t wouldtake three and a half years and many ,many $$ to comp lete the job The interior of the hull had major corrosionin many places, especially where previous repairs had been (poorly) made.Approximately 90% of the sheet metalhad to be replaced along with severalthousand rivets.

Both Pratt Whitney R-985 engines were majored with all new partsand the three-blade Hartzel l propswere sent out for overhaul. A wetcenter section was installed in the wingwhich holds 150 gallons of fuel , makinga total of 370 ga llon s - sufficient for acruising range of nearly 2,000 miles.

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EAA s Grand Champion AnGrowing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two thingsyou either mature to become an airplane

maniac like your mom or dad, or you

aU his effort and research, Tom's neat-asa-pin two-place airplane was awarded theGrand Champion Antique Lindy trophy.

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building up an original airplane, folkssta rted contacting him to help him out.One of the mor e interesting items that arrived in the m ail was an original Lycomingpropeller plate , sent by a man in theNorthea st who heard that Torn could useoriginal parts , so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was re-tained, and no additional tanks were inst a lled. Although the '41 Taylorcraft

could be bought new with an auxiliarytank in s talled under the baggag e com-partment, few training airplanes werepurchased with one, and this Taylorcraftwas no exception.

When th e landing gear's tim e for review carne up , Torn retained the Shinnwheels and brakes, and was even able tobuy a set of original hubcap s They werejust a bit corroded, so they could not simply be poli shed out, but they painted upjust fine. A crowning touch on the wheelbackplates was a pair of brand new Shinndust covers for the brake adjusters . Oftenthey take on a rather beat up app eara nce ,or disappear altogether as st o nes and

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ened. Torn understands that, but saysthe straight slots really gave him littletrouble. He pointed out that if you arecareful, problems with slipping off arerare. He say you should always use theproper size screwdriver, and keep it wellmaintained with a square, sharp tip . Purchasing high quality screwdrivers alsopays dividends in this area.

There's another aspect to the hard-

ware that deserves praise - the use ofwhite cadmium plating instead of today 's"gold" cad plating.

Another area where the proper hardware made the difference is the wind-shield. Torn's Taylorcraft features a fourpiece windshield, with a series ofaluminum strips to secure the plastic.Soft aluminum round head rivets wereused originally, and after a little research,Torn found he could still buy the roundhead rivets, and used them instead of themore common AN 470 universal head rivets in use today.

Small trim details are always a pain toduplicate, and so m et i mes you have tolook in what to be th most un

duck cloth that was delivered with theTaylorcraft.

The rest of the interior was done byTorn Jr. , including ref urbi shing the largetachometer. The tach its e lf was in re -buildable shape, but th e dial was fadedand worn . What to do? Torn simply wentabout leaning how to si lkscreen, so hecould make up a new faceplate With th einternal mechanics reworked by JohnWolf and company of Willoughby, OH ,the centerpiece of the instrument panelwas r ea dy for the other instruments .

You may notice that the instrum e ntpanel has an original style ignition switch.

What is completely hidden from view isthe fact that the switch handle ne atlyhides a modem ignition switch The newswitch is mounted behind the old switch'sfaceplate, and the new key is solderedinto the handle . It's a very effective solution to the problem of replaceing older,less reliable magneto switches.

Other parts that were retained included the tailwheel , a H ea th unit builtspecially for Taylorcraft. t was in pr ettytough shape, but some machine shopwork had the steerable tailwheel r eadyfor service.

Finally, when it carne to covering, Tornused the Stits process. He did it with aslight twist, however. The wings are finished out in silver Poly ton e, with the finalpaint on the fuselage is Aerothane . Torn

is to be commended for his work on th ecovering - we all know how difficult it canbe to have a silver finished airplane corneout looking good, but he managed to doit His tapes are straight and all the edgesare securely stuck down , with no fuzzyedges showing. He was also specific inexpressing his desires for a " dope look "wh e n h e ordered hi s Aerothane fromStits, (now Poly-Fiber) . H e told them hewanted the blue to look just a bit lessglossy, so it would hav e that "sprayed butnot completely hand rubbed out lo okwhen it was sprayed on the fuselage. Theresult is an airplane that truly does lookas thought it had ju st been delivered fromth f t i Alli Th j dg t


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ysteryPaney eorge Hardie

York , and was then rebuilt by TuscarMetals , Inc. Testing was re sumed onApril 15, 1938 and it accumulated 50 to60 hours flying t ime by November1944 . Less than a year later it was totally destroyed in a crash in August1945.

More information can be found nthe book 'Winged Wonders : The Storyof the Flying Wings' , by E .T.Wooldridge , pages 61-64.

Oth er answers were r ece iv ed fromCharley Ha y es, Park Fo r es t, IL ; VicSmith , Uxbridge England LennartJohnnson , Eldsberga Sw e den; Bill

Berkley, No. Syracus e NY ; James Bor-den, M ena hag a MN ; and Roland Hall ,Northfield, IL . . . . .

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tions. I tell Matt to go on ahead, that wewill catch up with him .


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ioB U C Kby Buck Hilbert EAA 21 Ale 5 P.O. Box 424 Union , IL 60180

Tailwheels, taildraggers, conventionalgear?

I have seen a grow n man ago niz e tryingto taxi, let alone handle a takeoff or land

ing in one of the above.The scene is a ferry flight from our

home field, the Funny Farm, to Oshkosh.I have three airp lanes to move a nd on lytwo qualified taildragger pilots. The thirdman is a wonderful glider pilot with lot s oftime in sailplanes and plenty more in airplane s with a training wheel up front. Heeven professes that he had some time in a1-3 some years back.

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and theSwallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh , the170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip . The C-3 with its two-cylinder , sin gleignition engine of only 36 hp , limit edrange an d 60 mph cruise , will be the mo sttryin g . The old Swallow mail plan e, a

gra nd o ld lad y, will be the o ne I'll fly. Theplan is we will fly together.

Matt will take the C-3 , Dick will fly th eC-170B and, of co urs e, I will fly th e UnitedAirlines Swallow because I ' m the o nl yUnited pilot listed as the Captain o n thatone .

Since Dic k had a lot of 172 time and isfami liar with the type, I figured he 'd haveno trouble with the 170 , especially with allhis glider instruction tim e. Matt has flownthe C-3 a lo t , is a good stick and r udderman a nd knows the risks and the limita

p .Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a

quick check-o ut. Did I say quick? I'll sayit was . t was a very quick 270 to the right ,followed by a 180 to the lef t , followed byso m e very di st inct ex clam ations by yourstruly. " Wh at are yo u trying to do? " Iaske d , o nl y t o see an agonized look ofhelplessness from Di ck. We a r e nowh a lfw ay down the runw ay , facing back-wards to th e way we starte d to taxi fortakeoff. I straig ht en it out , turn it aroundand star t ta lkin g. He tries so me more andha s much th e sa me result. For almost 20minut es we z ig and zag, and swerve , andgro und loop . There is NO wa y I m gon na

le t thisairplane

go.Dick

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s tnot ab

leto h a ndle it. I can't beli eve itThen he r e co me s Matt in th e C -3. He

h a d forgotten hi s sunglasses an d cameb ac k to ge t th e m . Th e ge r m of an idea;mayb e Dick ca n h a nd l e the C-3, so wepla y mu sica l airp lan es. D ick tak es the C3, a nd since there really isn ' t room for two200 pound ers in it , I t e ll him to ta xi aro undand try it out. If he feels co mfortabl e an dis willin g, m aybe h e would lik e to fly itH e does ju st fine. He taxies it up anddown, sp in s it aro und on purpose andd oes a n admirable job. We bring it backto the gas pump a nd top it off and makes ur e h e has the 2 1 2 gallon reserve gastank on the floor in the eve nt of adversewinds or whatever. And I te ll him aboutbeing spring loaded to the forced landingmode and he assures me h e has everythingunder control , understands the fact thathis glide ratio ain t like his sailplan e , andoff we go .


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(Above) The Swallow and Aeronca C-3 in the Funny Farm hangar.

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl, made the tai lwheel on Buck s170 unsteerable. Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot.

(Below) Capt. Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at O Hare.

Matt isn ' t too happy about havin g tofly th e Cessna, but h e does . I crank up

so m e luck , e nable s m e to salvage it ,thou gh , and we pull up to the hangar and

went After all, we fly th e " BI G " onesand thes e l i t t le ones are " FUN-FUN

Jack B. H aleD a rryl L H all

Sunnyvale CAGreen Lake WI


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Fly In c a l e n ~ ~ r ~ ~The following list o f coming events is fumished toour readers as a mafter o f information only anddoes not const itut e approval, sponsorship, involvemelli, control or direction o f any event fly-in, seminars, fly market, etc.) listed. Please send the information to EAA Aft: Golda Cox, P.O. Box 3086,Oshkosh, W 54903-3086. Information should bereceivedfour months prior to the evelll date.

OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA ,TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel Air

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA, GADANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial

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GEE BEE - R-1, R-2 super-scale model plans used for Wolf/Benjamin'S R-2. GB Z ,

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C-26 Champion Spark Plugs -orginal brass tip plugs for your Champ, Cub, Taylorcraft,Stearman, etc. Military reconditioned, $5.75 to $9.75. 404/478-2310. (c-11/94)

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Popular Aviation, Aero Digest, Aviation, Sportsman Pilot and other vintage aeronautical magazines from 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. Have several thousand available. Alsoother 1915-1950 plane and pilot items. Buy - sell - trade. 44-page catalog airmailed toyou, $5. Jon Aldrich, Airport Box-9, Big Oakflat, CA 95305, phone 209/962-6121. (10-4)

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Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Cole Palen Memorial - Foundation introduction andmissing man formation flight - VHS format, 41 min. An indelible moment in time. $20 .00plus $3.50 shipping & handling. Check or Money order to: Airborne Adventures Inc., 6229Poolsbrook Road, Kirkville, NY 13082. (12-4)

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