VA-Vol-26-No-5-May-1998

May 1998 Vol 26 No5

CONTENTS

1 Straight amp LevelEspie Butch Joyce

2 AlC News

4 Aeromail

5 Anton Bileks Museum Spirit HG Frautschy

7 Bungee StartingHank Palmer

8 Puppy Lovel1ohn Willmott

12 Pipers Super Cruiser HG Frautschy amp Norm Petersen

19 What Our Members Are RestoringiNorm Petersen

2 1 Modifying a Swift for Aerobatic or Just Good PerformanceJim Montague

25 Mystery PlaneHG Frautschy

26 Pass it to BuckBuck Hilbert

28 Calendar

29 Welcome New Members

30 Membership Information

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FRONT COVER The Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser has been a favorite airplane of Piper fans for many years and a recent batch of newer restorations have been seen at various fly-ins This is JF Fisher III of Senoia GA and his sharp looking PAshy12 during his visit to EAA Oshkosh 97 It was selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Classic of the Convention EAA photo by Jim Koepnick shot with a Canon EOS-l n equipped with an 80-2oomm lens 1250 fll on 100 ASA transshyparency film EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER Passing Ages is the artwork produced by retired Air Force flyer John Sarsfield of Longmont CO Depicting the changing of the guard as the traveling public began their switch from rail roads to airliners during the 1930s Passing Ages shows a Lockheed Electra crossing over a Hudson locoshymotive as it hurtles down the rails in the twilight For a bit more information please see AC News

Copyright copy 1998 by the EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc All rights reserved VINTAGE AIRPLANE IISSN 0091middot6943) is published and owned exclusively by the EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh Wisconsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices The membership rate for EM AntiqueClassic Division Inc is $2700 for current EM members for 12 month period of which $1800 is for the publication of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Membership is open to all who are interested in aviation POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM AntiqueClassic Division Incbull PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surtace mail ADVERTISING - AntiqueClassic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken EDITORIAL POLICY Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor No renumeration is made Material should be sent to Editor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903middot3086 Phone 920426-4800

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Editor Henry G Frautschy

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STRAIGHT amp LEVEL by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE

Sun n Fun has kicked off the beginshyning of the fly-in season Now all of the local Chapter activities will

be taking place - sometimes its hard to make up your mind which local event will be the most fun I have been inshyvolved with two Chapters for some time EAA Chapter 8 and AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 Chapter 8 was formed some time around 1958 and has been based in Greensboro NC most of the time with officers of the Chapter coming from difshyferent areas near Greensboro

It was my pleasure to serve as presishydent of this Chapter in the late 1960s At that time it was a small group with maybe 25 members For the most part we were focused on homebuilt aircraft At that time I was building a Pitts SIC intending to become the world aerobatic champion That never came to pass because Dick Austin a fellow member caused me to catch MONOCOUPE fever I have been a vintage airplane nut ever since

This interest in vintage aircraft led me to become involved with a group of old airplane enthusiasts better known as the CarolinasNirginia Chapter of the Antique Airplane Association One of the great benefits of belonging to this group was the fact that everyone received a great newsletter written and edited by Jack Cox We lost Jack as a newsletter editor when he was hired by the EAA to be the editor of Sport Aviation magazine One of the benefits of having Jack on board is that the talented Golda Cox (Jacks wife) came on board too In the early 1970s this group became EAA Chapter 396-3A then later was converted to AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 AlC Chapter 3 still has a great newsletshyter which is written by Ray Bottom of Hampton Roads VA A newsletter is a very important part of a Chapters sucshycess keeping the local members informed of happenings and projects of interest

At our last AlC board meeting held last month Alan R Shackleton was appointed by the Board of Directors to be an AnshytiqueClassic Advisor Alan is from Sugar Grove IL and is the current president of the Fox Valley Sport Aviation Associashytion as well as EAA Chapter 579 in Aurora IL He has also served as their NewsLetter Editor He is the CUlTent Presshyident of the EAA Chapter Advisory Council and an EAA Representive to the Illinois Aviation Forum and Hall of Fame Alan restored a Staggerwing B17L SIN 3 the 1983 Oshkosh Reserve Grand Champion He has owned and flown a 1946 Luscombe 8A since 1985 His curshyrent project is a 1949 Stinson 108-3 He has a private pilot license with approxishymately 600 hrs and all but 100 of them have been in tailwheel airplanes Noted by one of the directors was the fact that not only are we getting Alan on board but we will have the support of his great wife Donna We look forward to having their positive input in the future

I don t know how the flying weather has been where you are located but here in the Carolinas it has been rough air since the first of the year 1 mean no fun at all The South and Southeast have had their share of tornados I have a buildshying in Madison NC located next to my home place It is 40 by 60 and I use it as a work shop for different projects On the national news you may have seen the torshynado that hit Stonevil le NC It got its head of steam up at my shop where it reshymoved most of the shingles from the roof and sucked the front concrete block wall almost off the foundation causing a bow in the wall That is one repair project that I have not figured out how to fix as of yet 1fared much better than a lot of other peoshyple did in town Our thoughts and concerns go out to all of those who have had losses from these storms this year

I to ld you last month 1 would share some of the information that Ken Woodard gave me concerning the history of my recently acquired 8E N2628K Heres part of what he wrote

The previous owner before Ken was Jim Beck If you look in John Swick s book titled The Luscombe Story on page 196 you will find Jim s name listed as a Luscombe dealer in Zionsville Indiana in 1948 where Jim ran his small airport and was an AampP at Beck Airport Over a peshyriod of years he owned a number of different airplanes including the Parks P-2 biplane later owned by Richard Bach aushythor of lonathan Livingston Seagull and numerous books about people airplanes and flying N2628K also was one Jim owned for a few years up to about 1969 when he was diagnosed with cancer He sold 2628K in 69 or 70 to the man I bought it from in 1972 As it turned out 1 built a house in the same town where Jim was living and when he found out I owned 2628K he looked me up and told me about the following disasters that ocshycurred to that old airplane while he owned it Despite the accident stories Ill soon reshylate to you Jim and the other people who flew it had many enjoyable hours in the airplane as I did also when I owned it

Ill quote more from Kens note next month

To all of those people who have been so great to support the 10nl membership drive thank you very much the Board of Directors and I ask that you keep up the great job There are some members we have not heard from and it would be great if each member could recruit at least one new member so they too could enjoy your great magazine Vintage Airshyplane and have the pride of sporting the AC logo Next month I will list all of the chairmen of the different Antique Classic activities taking place during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh so you will know who to contact should you have a question in advance of the Convention Again I would like to caution everyone to be very safety minded while operating your aircraft - we need all of you around for a long time Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Reshymember we are better together Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

AC NEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

About the Back Cover John Sarsfield 6541 St Vrain Rd

Longmont CO 80503 wrote the followshying about his painting Passing Ages which depicts a Lockheed Electra passing over a Hudson locomotive at twilight

I want people to understand the signifishycance ofaviation Our lives have been changed immeasurably by the ability to see the worldfrom an aerial perspective often in subtle ways The ability to experience cloudscapes as three dimensional objects and see landscapes from unfamiliar vantage points changes our outlook on life 1 want to introduce this perspective to the earthbound viewer and attempt to capture it for the flyshyers to enjoy in their hours on the ground

AUTO GAS RUMOR UNTRUE Several members have contacted EAA

recently and asked about a rumor cUlTently circulating among some FBOs that the auto fuel STCs issued by EAA and Peshytersen Aviation were now void because of changes in the ASTM fuel specifications

To put it simply the rumors are not true

An article in a FBO trade magazine cited an unnamed source from a major fuel supplier as stating the STCs were no longer valid because of changes made to the ATSM specifications now in effect That supposition is incolTect as the FAA has approved the use of auto gas containing (methyl-tertiary-butyl ether) MTBE and (ethyl-tertiary-butyl ether) ETBE in airshycraft being operated under auto fuel STCs issued by EAA and Petersen Aviation

MTBE and ETBE are added to gasoshyline as oxygenates in an effort to curtail exhaust emissions

As stated in the literature included with the STC auto fuel with alcohol added is not eligible for use in aircraft Fuel blended with alcohol has not to date been approved by the FAA

OTWERROR Alvin Boots Geiger of Lewiston MI

was kind enough to call and point out an error in last months article concerning the Meyers OTW I mentioned the fuseshylage was constructed with a steel tube inner structure in the forward hal f of the fuselage Thats not correct- the OTW

2 MAY 1998

was built with a full monocoque fuse lage structure of sheet aluminum The only steel tube in the fuselage are a couple of circles used as internal attachment points

AlC HALL OF FAME Nominations are now being accepted

for inductees in the AntiqueClassic Hall of Fame The next induction ceremonies will take place in the fall of 1999 Please use a copy of the nomination form (see opposite page) and add any additional documentation to the form It is vitally important that your nominees contribushytion s to aviation be documented as completely as possible Additional letters of support confirming the nominees background are certainly welcome The NC Hall of Fame currently includes

EE Buck Hilbert George York Joe Juptner Cole Palen Kelly Viets Harold Annstrong Ann Pellegreno Paul Poberezny Jim Younkin

FLY-IN NOTES Here are a few of the many great Type

Club fly-ins taking place in the coming months Check them out if youre intershyested in those airplanes or if you just want more information

LUSCOMBE FLY-IN Held at Coles County Memorial Airshy

port in Mattoon IL the Luscombe Fly-In is for all Luscombe enthusiasts The dates are June 12-14 For information on acshycommodations and activities contact Jerry Cox at 217234-8720 or Emai l him at jerry I Oadvantcom

AERONCA CONVENTION Aeronca aviators and fans of the marque

will gather in Middletown OH at Hook Field for the ninth Aeronca Convention which will once again feature the popular tours of the Aeronca factory as it exists today and a bus trip tour to the Air Force Museum in Dayton There s camping a Friday night steak fry and a Saturday banshyquet For information write Jim Thompson President National Aeronca Association PO Box 102 Roberts IL 60962-0102

OREGON AIR TOUR While not a fly-in this sure sounds like

fun if youre on the west coast Beginning

in Cottage Grove OR on July 19 the air tour will wend its way across 900 miles of Oregon just a bit of Idaho and then westshyward to the Pacific ending on July 23 Contact the Oregon Air Tour PO Box 6 13 Creswell OR 97426 or phone 5411746-3387

SOUTHWEST REGIONAL FLY-IN For those of you who are already planshy

ning your fall calendar you may be interested to know about a change in venue for the Southwest Regional Fly-In This year the fly-in moves from Kerrville to Abilene TX where it will occupy the west side of the airport The new location will allow the fly-in to grow as the years progess The dates are October 15-18 Call 512388-7399 for information or check out their web site wwwmrdata comlairshowswrfi

SHORT WING PIPERS The Buckeye Chapter of the SWPC

will host th e annual convention of the club also being held at Hook Field in Middletown OH The SWPC convention will take place July 13-16 With a theme of Back to the Birthplace of Aviation attendees will have an opportunity to visit the Air Force Museum at Wright-Pattershyson AFB as well as a visit from a group of local enthusiasts who have built and are flying a replica of the Wright Model B For more information contact Tom Anderson 513398-2656 (Email tdandershysonsprin tmai l com) or Jan Widman 937364-6050 You can also visit their web site wwwshortwingcomlI998

MlKESTROK Col Michael Strok 81 died February

7 1998 at hi s home in Annapolis MD A 1938 graduate of Cornell University he went to work at Piper Aircraft Corp that same year working his way up from a mechanic s helper to assistant purchasshying agent by the time he went off to serve in WW II As one of the men who helped Piper to prosper prior to WW II he was intimately knowledgeable of the efforts of Piper to educate the military brass on the capabilities the light plane in combat He went on to serve with the Army as a Liaison pilot at one point serving as Gen Mark Clarks Engineering Mainteshynance officer An inventive man he was awarded the Italian Cross of Valor for devising a method for dropping badly needed suppli es to troops stranded on a mountainside

He decided to continue his Army service flying as one of the first MASH helicopter pilots during the Korean war During his 25 year military cashyreer Mike was awarded the Bronze star and Air medal as well as the Army Commendation medal He retired from the Army in 1967 A career with the Air Transport Association followed but light airshycraft were never far from his soul A longtime member of the EAA and Piper Aviation Museum Foundation Mike enjoyed restoring and building light planes

HAROLD BROMLEY Harold Bromley who along with

Harold Gatty attempted to fly the Pashycific in 1930 in the Emsco City of Tacoma(above) died this past Decemshy

ber in Palm Desert CA He was 99 Trying to take advantage of the preshy

vailing winds Bromley and Gatty took off from Sabishiro beach 350 miles north of Toyko but had to turn back after exhaust fumes in the cabin nearly overshycame the aviators They were in the air over 24 hours before landing back in Japan When Clyde Pangborn and Hugh Herndon crossed the Pacific in a Belshylanca in 1931 Bromley gave up on the transpacific flight

Bromley had attempted twice to span the ocean his first flight cut short when during the takeoff run from the new airshyport in Tacoma W A he was splashed in the eyes by spilling gasoline and veered off the runway wrecking the Lockheed Explorer he was piloting and ruining his chances of making the flight at that time Two more Lockheeds were built for the attempt but both were wrecked before the Emsco was purchased and shipped to Japan for the attempted flight

INTERNATIONAL EAAANTIQUECLASSIC HALL OF FAME On this page is the nominating petition

for the EAA AntiqueClassic Division Hall of Fame If you wish to nominate an individshyual who you believe has made a significant contribution to the advancement of aviation between 1950 and the present day please make a copy of this form fill it out add supshyporting material and send it to Charles W Harris PO Box 470350 Tulsa OK 74147shy0350 Please mark the envelope EAA AntiqueClassic Division Hall of Fame Attn C Harris

Please be as thorough and objective as possible Attach copies of materials you deem appropriate and helpful to the committee

The person you nominate must have adshyvanced the field of aviation during the period 1950 to the present day They can be a citizen of any country and may be living or dead Their contribution could be in the areas of flying design mechanical or aerodynamic developments administration writing or some other vital relevant field or any comshybination of fields that support aviation

To be considered for induction into the EAA AntiqueClassic Hall of Fame during 1999 petitions must be received Nov 11998

Persons name submitting this petition __________________ Street __________________ Phone Number______ City State Zip _________

Person nominated for induction in the EAA AntiqueClassic Division Hall of Fame Name _____________________________ Street __________________ Phone Number______ City State Zip _________ Date of Birth If Deceased Date of Death _________

Area of contributions to aviation ____________________

Date or time span of the nominees contributions to aviation Must be between 1950 - to the present day

Describe the event or nature of activities the nominee has undertaken in aviation to be worthy of induction into the EAA AntiqueClassic Hall of Fame _____________

Describe other achievements the nominee has made in other related fields in aviation___

Has the nominee already been honored for hisher involvement in aviation andor the contribushytion you are stating in this petition (Circle one) Yes No

Ifyes please explain the nature of the honor andor award the nominee has received ___

Please attach any supporting material with Other information _________________________your petition for the committees review

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You re right - a slip of the keyboard tripped us up See th e caption on this page On your second subject thats a great idea David and will benefit both indishyvidual members and chapter officers who may wish to invite a new local member to their function We all know the airplan es bring us together but it s the peoshyple we meet that keep us together - HGF

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tom left) in the March Vintage Airplane I seem to recall flying clubs sponsored by aircraft factories at the time

Keep NC Div flying Marty Eisenmann NC576 Alta Loma CA

ST ARDUST THE BIPLANE Sir

I am endeavoring to find out inforshymation about a specific and distinctive biplane with three open cockpits named the Stardust It was owned by Wayne King the bandleader in the 30s and named after his theme song of that title It was sold to Ben Zimmer or Zimmerly of Lewiston Idaho in the late 1930 s From there its disposition is a mystery I am a fund-raising conshysultant working with Lewis-Clark State College then known as the Lewiston State Normal School The Stardust is mentioned in its history due to the association with Ben his partner

Jerry Wilson from Orofino ID and the fact that Ben set up an aviation cadet program at LSNS at the outset of WWII

Any guidance or information you can give me will be greatly appreciated

Thank you very much James Glass 16035 Gledhill Street North Hills CA 91343 888-833-0473 j Iglassearthlinknet

Ify ou re able to help Mr Glass we d appreciate a copy ofyour inforshymation here at EAA HQ - HGF

Anton Bileks Spirit

Making do with whats

available has long been a

motto used to great advanshy

tage by BAAers around the

world Anton Tony Bilek of

Rantoul IL knows the

method well having used it

to serve him since his days on

Bataan during WW II His

ingenuity is typical of the

resourcefulness of BAA

members and modelers and

we thought youd like to see

what he has been able to acshy

complish on a tight nearly

nonexistent budget

During the recent spate of

base closures Chanute Air

Force Base about 100 miles

south ofChicago was one of

the bases so targeted The airshy

port has been converted to a

regional civilian airport and

a museum has also been creshy

ated to detail the history of

aviation at this historic site

These pictures detail the

methods used to create some

excellent displays that can

bring aviation alive for adults

and schoolchildren alike

by HG Frautschy

For the Spirit of St Louis model Anton and the crew were fortunate to receive a donation of 1600 board feet of clean unused white pine from a loshycal window manufacturer You can see the size of the model is quite impresshysive designed to give the visitors the visual impact of the real aircraft withshyout the size (and expense) of building a full size replica The fuselage and tail surfaces are built up out of wood

The wings are also wood with foam leading edges and wingtips The

wheels and tires are from a wrecked motorcycle and the sheet metal is 084 or 090 aluminum left over from the Air Force Anton and the gang formed it the same way he had used on Bataan - placing it between two 2x8s standing on edge and then jumping on the metal to form the curve Anton says on Bataan they didnt have any 2x8s so they used logs He finshyished the contouring of the sheet metal over a length of four inch pipe placed between two benches

All covered and ready for painting the model looks just like the real thing The landing gear is also electrical conduit and the bun gee cord fairshyings on the gear are simulated by wrapshyping foam with rubber wrapped around them

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The groups first project was to build a large size model of a Curtiss Jenny using mashyterials on hand The biplane was replicated using twenty to forty-year-old lumber salshyvaged from construction demolition projects Once the nails were removed the wood wasnt too bad to work

Another proj ect of the fledgling museum staff is this Chanute glider It should serve as quite a contrast with the Lockheed F -104 Starfighter also on display

The Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum of Flight is located at the former Chanute AFB in Rantoul IL For information call 217shy893-1613 Theyre open 10-5 weekdays 10-6 on Saturday and noon until 5 on Sunday Theyre closed on Tuesdays

6 MAY 1998

These two shots of the engine model show the nice deshytailing attained by Anton using wood as his primary medium The pushrods for the model Wright J-5 are

made of electrical conduit and the exshyhaust stacks were furnished by the local muffler shop The second shot shows the added sheet metal featuring the classic engine turned cowl that is the trademark of so many aircraft of the 1927 era

by Hank Palmer

Heres a little known piece ofstarting trivia a few ofyou may recall If you should choose to try this method youre on your own but this article should give you some guidance on the tool and proceshydures used

I am amazed at how many pilots and meshychanics even old timers like me have never heard of such a thing In the Navy before and after the War every Aircraft Service Organization had one or two in the tool shed and every Aviation Machinists Mate knew how to make one if needed The first one I ever saw was at the Coast Guard Air Station in St Petersburg In 1938 or 39 they had a big Hall Flying Boat a PH-I an all metal biplane with Wright Cyclones hangshying on struts between the wings These probably had either hand or electric inertia starters I dont know which

But I do know they also carried a bungee that could be hooked over a propeller tip out to a pulley at the bottom of an interplane strut then back toward the engine In this case they had a block and tackle between the bungee and a fitting at the bottom of the inshyterplane strut

One or two crewmen would walk inshyboard along the lower wing and stretch the bungee with the block and tackle while anshyother man would give the prop a push off center and the bungee would do the rest They could do this while the ship was afloat at sea

I have used a bungee to start everything from a Stearman to the Hellcat and in the 1950s when I was flying C-46s in air freight service all over Central and South America we always carried one in the belly along with a spare set of spark plugs and a spare mag To start these bigger engines it usually takes four men to stretch it or in most cases we used a Jeep

To make a bungee you first need to sew up a leather push or boot shaped to fit LOOSELY over the tip of the prop (See the illustration on this page) The open end of the boot should be cut off at about 45 deshygrees and then hemmed to receive an eye splice in a piece of 112 manila or nylon line This splice should be just large enough to go around the prop at a 45 degree angle This line should be about the same length as

the prop A small eye splice in the other end is connected to a 6 foot length of bungee cord which is then connected to another length of line with several figure 8 knots tied near the other end so a man can pull on it without it slipping through his hands For a 220 hp Continental one strand of 12 bungee cord is adequate For an R-2800 I think we used four strands and it may have been larger than 112

WARNING It is important that the boot fit LOOSE enough so that it will be thrown offthe prop tip on the first half ofa revolushytion otherwise the bungee could get wound up in the prop and that could be disastrous

It is also important for the person or pershysons pulling the bungee that they line up just slightly ahead of the rotational plane of the blades so it wi ll lay across the hub on top of the hub (or spinner if it has one) but will not be caught by a blade and wind up in the prop when the engine starts Failing to keep the bungee and line clear of the prop could have dire consequences

The person pulling the bungee will be standing right in line to be hit in on the head by the boot after it leaves the prop tip so he needs to be ready to duck I never saw anyshybody hurt in this way

If you use a Jeep or other vehicle its

best to hook up to the front bumper and back up to stretch the cord so the driver can see the operation in front ofhim

You are probably thinking why go to all that trouble for a 220 Continental as they are easy enough to crank by hand Sometimes when an airplane fust comes out of overhaul with newly honed cylinders and new stiff rings before the rings get seated they provide more friction than comshypression They can be very hard to crank by hand in this condition Also in very cold weather if you dont have a way to preheat the oil it can be very hard to crank

Editor s Note Ofcourse cranking a very cold engine without a preheat brings a whole set ofengine wear probabilities into play but this method may be good to get you out ofa tight jam ifyoure really stuck somewhere without a preheat When these procedures were developed for use by the military they may not have been as conshycerned about getting a long time interval between overhauls as you are today - HGF

A bungee will snap it through much faster than anyone I know can do it The illustrashytions should be adequate for you to figure out how this was used Pretty clever

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One cold blustery day this past spring in Vermont between intermitshytent sunshine and rain showers with the wind howling and screeching like a thousand tortured dogs and cats I went to the attic to avoid the chill and driven

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My true story by JOHN W WILLMOTT

photos by JACK COX

rain intending to sort long forgotten treasure from trash before recycling the trash In one corner stacked high under the eves was huge pile of many years of magazines packed month by month year by year in liquor boxes or

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tied in bundles They were taking up room collecting dust and providing safe haven for mice in the winter In spite of the wind and rain drumming on the tin roof the attic was warm dry and cozy due to the suns radiated heat

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through the clouds on the tin roof So confined to quarters and happy to be out of the wind and rain I dug into a dusty old box marked misc aviation magazines And among the contents found a single issue of an obscure magazine of antique aircraft Thumbshying through it took me back to the 20s and 30s when I first came into contact with real airplanes instead of models Flipping a page my heart did a flipshyflop and I must have inhaled a huge chunk of dusty air as I came upon a picture of a lovingly restored Szekley powered Buhl Bull Pup

Immediately I was taken back to January 27 1940 when I drove out as usual to NW Miami to Charlie Dames Sunny South Airport to rent a Taylorshycraft or Piper Cub As I pulled up to the flight line next to the gas pump I found my 1935 Ford coupe nose to nose with the most beautiful and excitshying airplane I think I had recently seen It was a Buhl Bull Pup with bright yelshylow wings and a shiny aluminum monocoque fuselage And it had a Szekley three-cylinder 45 horsepower engine with a shiny varnished wood prop I fell in love at first sight Hangshying from the hub was a sign boldly

proclaiming FOR SALE Piling out of my car I hopped the reclining teleshyphone pole barrier to the flight line and proceeded to inspect the beauty As I walked around the wing to the cockpit I saw another for sale sign which said Inquire at the office I never thought I could afford to own this beauty which looked like a mini fighter plane However I had to sign for a rental plane and it wouldnt hurt to ask about the Bull Pup

Yes I was told the plane was for sale but had no takers among many inshyquirers admirers idle lookers and tire kickers in the several days it had been on the line It seems the plane had a reputation as a killer which would ground loop stall and spin on approach or climb out or - while spinningshywould enter a flat spin when the fuel tank was near empty ending only when it hit the ground The man in charge said it belonged to someone who had been transferred and he had no further use for the plane and he wanted hi s money quickly How much Only $300 dollars Three hunshydred dollars Yes $300 cash with verbal instructions on how to fly it since it was single seat with no room

The BuhI Bull Pup Is a rare sight these days At the 1980 EAA Convention Capt OM Neumann was awarded the Grand Champion AntIque trophy for his restoration of the 1931 Buhl LA-1 Bull Pup you see Illustrating this article At that time Dan was the fourth owner and the airplane when he acquired It was complete and stili had Its original 45 hp Szekely engine Installed The total time on the airplane and engine Only 250 hours Where Is It now Stili with Dan who has cared for It all these years

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for an instructor Just go and do it And yes - the log books are curshyrent the inspection recent and here is the title and registration to NC377Y ready for your signature PT Barnum said Theres a sucker born every minute And of course those in love seldom consider consequences

I had been looking for a cheap bucket of bolts with decrepit fabric and held together with bailing wire for about 5 or 6 hundred dollars as long as it was licensed and would fly Such had been available in well worn and sun bleached Cubs Taylorcrafts Aeronca C-2s or Cs all of which I had flown recently - including an old Taylorcraft from which I had peeled off about 6 feet of sun rotted topside wing fabric coming out of a spin My Pup was a bargain I knew it was mine when we tested the fabric high in the green and it responded with a musical poing when tapped The engine had large pistons and was firm to the pull when swinging the prop It also had been modified with a heavy steel cable around the cylinder heads with a turnbuckle to prevent the cylinders from falling off as had ocshycurred from time to time with Szekely engines The engine started immedishyately and ran smoothly and cleanly with a husky sounding roar saying Come on Lets go and play Shutshyting it down we looked the Pup over closely and then proceeded to the ofshyfice to sign the license and paperwork to complete the deal I had always said that the only thing better than sex was to fly a sexy airplane Now I was the proud owner of my little fighter plane and must teach myself to fly her I reckoned that since someone had flown her in without denting her I would fly her out and around until we became acquainted and perhaps build an intimate relationship

I determined to fly her then and now There was plenty of advice and many warnings all of which I considered carefully hoping that my doubts and nervousness didnt show One encourshyaging fellow cautioned of a tendency to flat spin Then pulling on my helmet and with my goggles perched above my forehead I climbed aboard secured my belt and feeling comfortable reached and checked the controls and set the altimeter It was loaded with inshystruments having an altimeter and

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tachometer The gas gauge was a rod in the gas cap in front of the windshyscreen The air speed indicator was a quadrant out on the right wing landing wires which ran from a cabane strut overhead to the wing spars outboard A crowd had gathered to watch the fun I had a feeling that bets were being made Does he do or does he dont Can he tame the killer Will he chicken out doing runup before takeoff and bring it back to try another time No He will fly it- and now

I taxied out Visibility was good over and on each side of the engine The flight line was at the east end as were power lines along the road To the west was semi open farmland And wind was mostly from the west Good So I decided to make a series of power on - tail up - power off- three point short runs into the wind All went well and felt good I taxied back heading downwind then turning around and taking every available inch before I apshyplied full power The tail was up and I was off the ground almost before I reshyalized it Most of the field was ahead but now I was committed I climbed out and went west over open farmland because I didnt quite trust her About 5 miles out we were over the Evershyglades where upon reaching 5000 feet I tried power on and power off stalls and steep turns She was lively and responsive compared to the other small planes Id flown She seemed willing to do whatever I asked and do

it with verve I think she seduced me rather than the other way about

Before returning to make my first landing even though I was wearing no chute I decided to do a spin and find out if she was ugly and mean and warshyranted her alleged bad reputation Power idle Nose up More Gentle My instruments were truly seat of the pants Now the rush of air was hushed The stick pressure became heavy Genshytle toe work on the rudder kept her straight ahead I stiffened Talked to myself- or was it to her Relax She shuddered slightly - seeming to enjoy the play When a spin is inevitable shyrelax and enjoy it She shuddered again Now With a slight nudge of my left foot she rolled gently left The nose dropped abruptly and we entered a steep nose down spin Green pasture rotated below I counted the half turn the full turn and brought her out slick as a whistle stilI pointed more or less toward home where I wanted her As I recall we lost about 450 feet As I headed for the airport I decided to do it again for two turns to see if it was luck or good management since I still had over 4000 feet The result was the same Fun A challenge A thrill She responded to my touch and I loved her even more

In the flight pattern I circled the field preparing for the moment of truth Down wind along the canal base leg close in with power off and onto final over the trees highway and wires with

maybe 50 feet to spare The slight cross wind was alshymost flat behind the Australian Pines along the canal She touched down full stall on the grass without a bounce and I was on the rudders keeping the nose straight ahead She may have wanted to stray or wander a bit like a young freshly sadshydled filly but I was the boss and I think she loved me enough to do my will We had consummated our sudden love affair

without a hitch and I knew we would share many happy and exciting hours together

As I taxied back to the flight line and chopped the engine there was a

good deal of good natured bantering and shouted jokes from the crowd They then expressed approval by wishshying me lots of luck and fun as we celebrated with Cokes

My beauty and I spent many happy hours together until I transferred to New York to fly on Pan Ams Boeing 314 boats out of the North Beach Mashyrine Terminal I had a trusted friend who wanted flying time fly the Pup to Roosevelt Field Shortly I was to be banned from the field because no more tail-draggers without a tail wheels and brakes would be allowed on the field I found an eager buyer in a Navy enshylisted sailor from Floyd Bennett Air Station who aspired to be Navy pilot in the enlisted mens program We agreed I would deliver the Pup and close the deal at Floyd Bennett on his next liberty

On August 20th I flew Pup across the swamps From Roosevelt to Floyd Bennett Sailors log book and fast talking convinced me to let him test hop the Pup before completing the deal He said hed do a circuit and reshyturn I cautioned him that he had little fuel and to avoid stalling or spinning it

due to the aft CG His circuit conshysisted of disappearing in the distance toward New York City In a few minshyutes he appeared high in the sky to the west at which time we watched him stall then enter a spin I counted one and two turns Stop Three and four Stop it Five and six Quit now Seven and eight Enough Nine and ten-and some more - before he disappeared behind the hanger We expected to see a cloud of smoke arising to the west and hear sirens wailing Instead he apshypeared at about a thousand feet to the south in the landing circuit He taxied up - fully in command but covered with black oil and grinning from ear to ear As he cut the switch my beautiful Pup coughed and went silent Sailor the new owner said hed come out upshyside down - and he looked it Said it was the best fun he ever had Wow What a thrill I felt I had betrayed and sold my best friend and lover to a mashyniac I stuffed the money in my pocket wished him a long and happy life as I patted Pups nose then turned and walked away thinking good bye my love- it was fun

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Pipers Super Cruiser 1997 Oshkosh Classic Reserve Grand Champion Chip Fishers Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser

by NORM PETERSEN

bones and the total restoration was begun Several fuselage tubes needed replacement due to corrosion and were carefully spliced in When Wayne was

finished with the weldshying the fuselage was

absolutely straight and true Slowly but surely

the many parts were assemshybled with new bolts nuts

and screws Ceconite was selected for the

fabric covering material with Air Tech polyurethane as the final colors in Tennessee Red and Diana Cream the original colors on the P A-12 from back in 1946 Even the original paint design was followed to a T which caused many an AntiqueClassic memshyber to smile as they walked by the airplane at Oshkosh

Inside the cabin the instrument panel was entirely redone with overshyhauled and refinished instruments each one complete with a curved glass face and the proper ivory colored inshystrument face behind This would have to be called the Deluxe Model P A-12 as the instrument panel includes a rate of climb turn and bank and a gyro compass across the top of the panel plus an innocent looking Narco Omishygator Mark II in the center of the panel Although the Ornnigator Mk II is peshyriod perfect the entire face of the radio snaps off and a modem 720 radio is hidden behind (This is both neat and practical) The only instrument that caused difficulty was the tiny amshymeter on the righthand side of the panel Nearly impossible to locate Chip finally had to make up a com-

Veteran observers were quite amazed when an extremely well reshystored 1946 Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser NC7885H SIN 12-788 flown in by Joel Chip Fisher III (EAA 94990 AC 5797) and his wife Sue from way down in Senoia Georgia ran off with the Classic Reserve Grand Champion Lindy at EAA Oshkosh 97 What caused the raised eyebrows was the almost unbelieveable timing enshygendered by Chip Fisher to have the pretty PA-12 judged at Oshkosh The incredible story follows

Chip bought the PA-12 back in 1979 and flew it for about 16 years enjoyshying the pleasant flying characteristics of the Super Cruiser until the time came for a major rebuild In 1995 the tired three-placer was taken to Wayne Dickson s shop called Southland Aero in nearby Luthersville GA where the airplane was taken down to the bare

(Above) Two thrilled aviation people Sue and Chip Fisher hold their Classic Reserve Grand Championship Lindy in front of their beautifully restored Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser

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puter-generated copy of the ammeter face that came out looking like it just left Lock Haven PA

Up front an entirely new firewall was fabricated to replace the original one which had seen over fifty years of service In addition a brand new cowlshying courtesy of Piper guru Clyde Smith Jr was added for that absolute new look to the forward section of the airplane Inside the cowling the original 100 hp Lycoming 0-235-C was upgraded to an 0-235-C2 of 115 hp with four new factory cylinders a host of new parts and some really fine engine work that brought the PA-12 powerplant up to where it runs like the proverbial watch Beyond the front flange a new Sensenich wooden proshypeller was finished off with a new spinner and mounting hardware

One item that turned out well was the exhaust system which had been reshybuilt about two years previously Only the muffler shroud needing replacing with a bit of polishing before installashytion - to give it that new shine

Both sides of the landing gear reshyquired overhaul recover and new shock cords installed Chip noted the new cords are far stiffer than the old ones which had seen yeoman service during many many landings The wheels and brakes were cleaned up and many new pieces (spelled $$$$$$) were put in the 8 00 X 4 brakes to bring them up to new condition A new set of Goodyear tires and tubes (more $$$$$) finished the landing gear overshyhaul One item that still works fine on the P A-12 is the original hand brake that sits under the righthand side of the panel It can be set and locked and then un-locked when ready to roll (This can be a lifesaver in certain situations)

From this angie we get a close look at the factory original paint scheme of a 46 PA-12 Note the clever access door for the battery box just aft of the baggage compartment

As the PA-12 was slowly assemshybled new control cables were carefully measured nicopressed together and then installed in the airframe All conshytrol pulleys and guides were also replaced with new materials The result is a set of controls that work through their entire range without bindshying or pinching Smooth is the word

Leaky fuel tanks are quite normal among PA-12 owners and Chip deshycided to end the problem with a set of newly welded alushyminum wing tanks that were installed with a little more beef than the original mounting straps The result is fuel tanks that stay put where they belong dont leak and provide 38 gallons of unshyinterupted fuel flow- enough for nearly six hours of flying Chip readshyily admits this is longer than his tender body can sustain

New leading edges on the wings helped to remove

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some unsightly bumps and dings in the old aluminum In addition when Wayne Dickson readied the wings for covering he covered the new leading edges with felt The wing fabric was then pulled tight over the wings and the leading edges came out straight and true - the felt providing just a tiny cushion to make it look perfect

The entire restoration project was estimated to take two years to comshyplete and the goal was to fly the PA-12 to Oshkosh 97 As usual the crush came towards the end and the daily working hours got longer and longer Details were still being

feveriously worked on when the openshying of the EAA Convention came on Wednesday July 30 1997 The hectic pace continued into Thursday and Frishyday with detail after detail finished and parts and pieces being installed for the last and final time With precious time slipping away the crew gave the project

Interior shot of the rear seat area reveals the excellent work that was done on the aircraft Interior right down to the seats and headliner

(Below) Original panel with ivory colored instruments has had the Omnigator cover removed exposing the avionics tray behind Hobbs meter reads 117 hours

(Bottom of page) With the avionics tray moved forward Chip is ready to use the KT126 Transponder wencoder the 10(125 NavComm radio and PM 2000 intercom The Hobbs meter allows the use of an original tachomeshyter which doesnt have an hour meter on the face

Cleverly done aft fuselage section includes letter pershyfect access panels Installed with the correct slottedshyhead screws and orig inal Scott hard rubber tailwheel

thei r last gasp of supreme human efshyfort and by Saturday noon August 2nd the PA-12 appeared finished and the engine was started to put some kind of run-in time on the airplane A total of 1 1 hours were logged before final details were atshytended to the PA-12 was fueled to the neck (38 gallons) and Chip took offfor Oshkosh at 3 pm heading north at 102 mph and racing the sun as it headed for the horizon Just at dark Chip landed at Pontiac IL and tied down for the night

The next morning Sunday August 3rd he took off from Pontiac and headed the pretty PA-12 north toshywards Oshkosh and the huge EAA Convention It was close to noontime before he completed the landing at Oshkosh taxied to a parking spot in the AntiqueClassis area tied the airshyplane down and made a dash for the registration window When asking for judging information Chip was surshyprised when the lady said Oh the judging is over Chip answered But I thought the judging went all day on the 3rd and she answered

No they had so many airp lanes they stopped at noon today Looking at his watch Chip blurted out Its only 11 54 now The lady came back OK fi ll out the paper work and Ill try to get somebody to look at it Chip gave her the completed papershywork and headed back to the Super Cruiser- only to find an A C judge clipboard in hand already going over the airplane with a smile on his face and an eag le eye (A note to all shyduring EAA AirVenture judging ends in the AntiqueClass ic area at noon on Sunday - HGF)

As Chip says We were really lucky just getting under the wire The Hobbs meter read 117 hours total time at Oshkosh of which 106 hours were put on the meter on the way to the EAA Fly-In - allowing the paint to dry on the way

Chip whose full name is Joel F Fisher III was born on June 22 1939

Hanging beneath each wing is a fuel gauge that can be read from the cockpit Most PAmiddot12 pilots have a crease in their forehead from walking into the gauges when moving about under the wing

and learned to fly in 1955 At present he has over 19000 hours in his logshybook having spent many years with Eastern Airl ines in aircraft manageshyment and flight training He is presently a Captain flying a Boeing 747-400 for EVA Air airlines of Taipei Formosa On his days off he loves to enjoy the simple pleasure of flying the PA-12 Having the 1997 Reserve Grand Champion Lindy on the shelf is just icing on the cake

A special congratul ation to Chip and Sue Fisher for having the tenacity to hang in there right to the climactic ending and coming home with the bashycon Please remember that the beautiful PA-12 is still eligible for the Grand Championship Lindy We hope to see it back at EAA Airventure 98

(Left) The high caliber of the restoration is evident in this photo of the interior of the PAmiddot12 Even the rubber stick grips are perfect The Narco Omnigator Mk II front cover plate is in place in the center of the panel

(Below) The very sanitary engine compartment on the PAmiddot12 reveals high class workmanship that caught the judges eye The nose cowlings furnished by Clyde Smith Jr are a rebuilders dream

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Work In Progress

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by HG FRAUTSCHY

Pilots on the West Coast will look at the pictures in this article and recall this airplane- it has won at various times since 1987 Best Piper at Watsonville (4 times) Best of Show at Porterville Best Piper at Merced and a few others to boot Whats so neat about this PA-12 is the fact that for most of that time it had been a work in progress for owner Paul Merritt who now makes his retirement home in Pensacola FL

This particular PA-12 Super Cruiser SIN 668 was built in Lock Haven in Ocshytober of 1946 and spent the first portion of its flying career in Vincennes IN as one of the ponies in the stable of a Fixed Base

Operator Flight instruction charter operashytions whatever needed to be done was taken care of by the wide-body Cub

A couple in Hollister CA owned the 3-place Cub for close to 40 years enjoyshying it as their personal airplane Living in California they felt the need to equip the Super Cruiser with every instrument they could find eliminating the original panel in the process At various times it also lost its original upholstery and was also laid over on its back damaging nearly every wing rib Each was repaired and the wings rebuilt but as Paul Merritt would recall later it didnt look pretty

In the mid-1980s Paul and a friend

(Left) A dreary day is just right for Paul Merritt to install the plugmiddotin landing lights The factory original lights are one of the several original parts installed by Paul to make his PAmiddot12 a nice restoration

were deep into the restoration of a Piper HE-I the military version of the J-5 Since it was very similar to the Super Cruiser Paul had obshytained permission to enter their hangar and look at the PA-12 it their was question reshygarding the orientashytion of a particular part The HE-I was a real project a true pile of parts and someshytimes seeing a built up example of a simshyilar airplane helped put the right pieces in the right places

How many times have we said Well ifyou ever want to sell your XYZ airplane Id like to buy it

Paul did to the couple who owned the PA-12 and hapshypily they called him in 1984 and offered to sell it to him $6000 and a day later saw Paul Merritt the owner of what he considered a marginshy

ally flyable 1946 Super Cruiser It had 27-year-old cotton as its covering and it too was marginal but it flew and for a coushyple of years Paul enjoyed using it all over the San Francisco Bay area ofCalifomia

In 1986 it was time to get to work and make an honest airplane out of the PA-12

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the doubler added can cause the rib to have a slight depression or flat spot either at the crack or on each side of it Some restorers have used body filler to even out the conshytour but Paul had a different method He would use contact cement to glue a strip of thin 1132 balsa wood to the rib flange and then carefully sand most of it away until only the area needing filler would be left with a even thinner piece of balsa It is lighter and wont chip out like body filler has been known to do A coat of varnish is added to seal the balsa and voila one pershyfectly contoured rib ready for installation

The rest of Daves sheet metal work is beautiful as well He keeps two complete sets of metal for the airplane - while one is on the airplane the other is always eishyther being refinished or is done waiting to be reinstalled He doesnt like the metal to look ratty or the rest of the plane To jump ahead a bit whenever he brings the Super Cruiser to a fly-in he brings a colshylection of small paint brushes and nearly 20 different cans of touch-up paint with him Once he arrives at the event he takes a day and prepares the airplane by touchshying up the inevitable nicks and scratches that show up an an airplane that is flown regularly No show queen this PA-12 is Pauls personal transportation so he enshyjoys flying it as often as possible After the bugs and rocks have taken their toll to the extent that no amount of touching up will keep it looking great he will remove it and install the newly refinished extra set of cowling and nose bowl

Getting back to the restoration the wings also have one other factory original

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Fortunately the previous owners had saved much of the original components reshymoved from the airplane at various times so that they might later prove useful

Paul was determined not to take five years to complete the restoration as he had on the HE-I Vowing to work on it every day he finished the PA-12 in 364 daysjust one day shy of his goal There was plenty to do From the beginning he planned on sticking to his budget (he had two kids in college at the time) and restoring the airshyplane as it would have appeared in 1946

Each and every rib had to be repaired since all had been damaged when the Sushyper Cruiser was flipped over Youd never know it by looking at the ribs since they all had a uniform contour to them How did he do it

Often when a rib is repaired for a crack

HG Frautschy

(Above) Sitting in the Florida sun and often surshyrounded by admirers Pauls PA-12 Super Cruiser reminds you just how pretty the airplane was when it was built by Piper in October of 1946 The small stepladder in front of the airplane also doushybles as an easel for Pauls restoration book disshyplayed for visitors so they can see the extent of the Pipers restoration

addition that has proven to be a show stopshyper- a pair of the plug-in wing mounted landing lights weve seen on a couple of restorations most notably Alan Sowells Funk completed in 1997 They arent the most practical since they add a pretty good amount of drag

A pair of wing tanks are standard and they hold a total of38 gallons plenty offuel to cruise around behind the economicalshyto-run Lycoming 0-235-C I of 100 hp (later it was uprated to 108 hp) When Paul bought the PA-12 it still had the original engine installed and it checked out and ran fine In fact he continued to run it until 1996 when he overhauled it The crankcase had not been opened up since 1956 and Paul just thought it was time The only problem he found was a crack in the exhaust port stud boss on one cylinder That cylinder had to be scrapped as it was not repairable but three of the four cylinders now on the engine are origishynals and continue to give good service

Certainly one of the eye catching finshyishing in the cockp it is the origina l Hammertone silver and blue paint One of the more popular finishes for cons umer items in the 40s right on up into the 70s (remember the silver Hammertone paint used on the Sears Craftsman toolboxes) it can be as tricky to deal with as wrinkle fmshyish paint Both are enamels and are sensitive to humidity and temperature When fmishshying with either paint you should attempt to do all the parts at the same time since it is possible to have very different looking effects if you do them on different days

Randolph is the paint supp lier for the finish and if you dont need a gallon (the

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(Upper left) The forward cockpit of the PA-12 feashytures a tw()otone Hammertone finish along with gray upholstery and black carpeting In the center of the panel you can see the cover plate built by Paul with the Super Cruiser logo emblazoned upon it and behind the hinged plate is his radio installation along with a spare key and a picture of his friend Rosemary

smallest they would mix up for Paul at that time) you may wish to check the Eastwood Company catalog (1-800-345shy1178) Their latest catalog lists aerosol cans of Hammertone paint in eight colors (Eastwood shows si lver gray and light blue as the two closest to the original colshyors) They carry a wide variety of automotive restorers supplies many of which are applicable to aircraft restoration

Piper seeing the trend already in the post war period made panel space avail shyable for a radio which can be a boon to restorers As you saw on Chip Fisher s PA-12 its a pertty versiti le place to keep a couple of radios Paul has a small Bertea 360 comm radio along with a Terra transponder a must for negotiating the busy airspace around the Bay area

One final addition to the cockpit was made by him something that he recalled from his 35 years with IBM - the THINK sign he installed under the throttle He says it is always a good sign to have up to tell you to keep your mind on what you are doing

An original Scott hard rubber tailwheel is installed something Paul prefers Hes had a couple of pneumatic tailwheels go flat after a stone got in between the rim and the tire and worked a hole in the tube He really isnt concerned about the added bumpiness and noise while taxiing on pavement

The covering is Ceconite and the final finish is butyrate dope a favorite of Pauls with acrylic enamel used on the sheet metal He like the acrylic for its ease of use particshyularly for an amateur painter The results as Paul continues to work on and fl y his Super Cruiser are very pleasing to look at

Photos by Leslie Hilbert

As one ofthe increasing numbers of Sushyper Cruisers being restored the PA-12 will continue to be a favorite for those fortunate enough to own them Paul Merritt certainly thinks so - he and his friend Rosemary Kaltahoff are enjoying flying the Piper wherever they can Why not The practical design was meant to be flown and enjoyed for its low operating cost and utility with its big cabin It appealed to a wide range of pilots and FBOs for Piper had orders for 5000 examples starting right after VJ day in 1945 It wasn t until the following Febshyruary that the production line began to deliver airplanes and by the following March Piper was building 30 airplanes a day to keep up with pent-up demand

PA-1 2s were capable of remarkable feats including a remarkable around-theshyworld flight by Cliff Evans and George Truman each in their own Super Cruiser who made the 22500 mile trip in 4 months and one day Well see one of those Super Cruisers restored within the next year or so as Harry Mutter is in the process ofreshybuilding it as I write this article A versatile airplane the PA-12 has become the darshyling or the weekend pilot and bush pilot alike With just over 1531 of the 3758 built still registered theyll be around for a long time to enjoy

WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING----------------------------by Norm Petersen

Wayne Sutherlands Culver V

Pictured by the hangar in the bright sun is a 1946 Culver Model V N3099K SIN V-318 owned by Wayne Sutherland (EAA 197346 NC 12624) of Mackinaw IL Powered with a Continental C85-12FJ this particular Culver V features a BeechshyRoby controllable propeller with a uniquely mounted spinner to help in the speed department Normal cruise is in the 125 mph bracket which isn t too shabby for only 85 hp

Designed by Al Mooney in 1945 the Culver V featured a Simpli-Fly system that never really caught on with the WW IT pilots and Culver was one of the first to The Beech-Roby propeller is adjusted go under in the post war aviation bust in pitch by the large gear next to the cowlshyPresently there are 37 remaining on the ing which is rotated by the tiny gear on the FAA register of which 16 are the Supeshy top side which is turned by a small handshyrior-built Culver Model V such as this crank in the cabin The spinner is one Pictures taken by Allan Lurie (EAA supported by a flanged backplate bolted 19884) of Peoria IL on the front side of the propeller

Grant Metsgers Navy Stearman Resplendent in its white paint scheme is this beautiful

Steannan (right) N300LM SIN 75-2855 being readied for takeoff by its owner Grant Metsger (EAA 545456 AlC 29129) ofHighland Village Texas seated in the rear cockpit Grant who is an airline pilot by trade loves to play among the clouds with his pretty Steannan all done up in Navy colors The tall gentleman standing next to the Steannan is Grants father Don Metsger (EAA 129678 AlC 14638) of Sun City AZ who is the manager ofthe airshyport at Wickenburg AZ a veteran antique airplane buffand a strong EAA booster for many many years Although it doesnt necessarily show in the photo when Don starts talking about his pilot son the eyes sparkle and the suspenders get a bit tight- as they would for any proud father There is a world ofaviation experience represented by this father-son team as the immaculate Steannan clearly shows

Dale Ringlers 59 Champ on floats This photo taken at Lake Hood Alaska shows Dale Ringlers

1959 Champion 7GC (right) N4846E SIN 7GC-46 mounted on a pair of PK 1800 floats and ready to leave on a fishing trip with the door open Powered with a Lycoming 0-320 engine of 150 hp swinging a long seaplane propeller the 7GC is unusual in that it has dual vertical auxiliary tail fins plus a ventral fin under the tail Note the swing-up seaplane door often used on floatplanes for easy access to the cabin This particular model the first of the G series is quite rare with only 49 remaining on the FAA regshyister at present Note the Grimes Model B light on the top of the rudder with its white lens and the strobe light on the cabin roof Dale is from Eagle River AK

Stinson 108-3 from Brazil Back in December 1995 VINTAGE AIRPLANE we ran a picshy

ture of a Stinson 108-3 project being built up in Brazil by Moyses Gomes da Silva (EAA 489663) We are proud to report that Moyses made the first flight on November 5 1997 and reports the Stinson (PT-ZMG) (left) flew just fine Moyses reports the restoration took 2-12 months to complete The Stinson is powshyered with a Lycoming 0-435 of 190 hp swinging a long fixed pitch metal prop and capped off with a neat spinner Unusual are the Piper metal wheelpants complete with metal step on top inshystalled on the landing gear rather than Stinson wheelpants Perhaps this makes it a genuine late model Piper-Stinson 108-3 as sold by Piper after buying the line from Stinson Aircraft in 1949 Very Special congratulations to Moyses for bringing his Stinson 108-3 back to flying condition to once again grace the skies of Brazil

Charlie Harris Monocoupe 90AL This photo of a fabulous 1949 Monocoupe 90AL (left)

NC8762I SIN 869 in a fabulous hangar (note the tiled floor) was contributed by owner Charlie Harris (EAA 96978 AIC 2158) of Tulsa OK Charlie reports this was the last stick Monocoupe built in September 1949 and has 775 hours total time There are just five hours on a total rebuild including a brand new wing and a yellow over red paint scheme with the three finger stripes down the side The Monocoupe also feashytures a red leather interior and 36 gallons of fuel to feed the 160 hp Lycoming 0-320 engine This was the last Monocoupe to be restored by the late John Halterman who was also the ATC holder

20 MAY 1998

PreparingA Swift For Aerobaticsl

NOT FAA APPROVED

ANY INFORMATION HEREIN

DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE

RIGHT BUT I DOUBT IT

-JIM MONTAGUE

The information herein was learned the hard way over a period of 30 years of Swift ownership A long the way Iobshytain ed a Pilot License a Mechanics Licellse and all Inspection Authorization I have belonged to the SWift Association for all of its 25 plus year historyand enshyjoyed all but a few hours among hundreds of hours spent in these wonderful airshyplalles

If you dont yet have a Swift there are severa l things you can look for on a preshypurchase inspection wh ich wi ll he lp you later on We are only at this time going to consider stock or semi-stock Swifts of 145 hp Big engine airplanes are a chapter all their own If you intend to do aerobatics

I Don t buy a painted Swift-paint adds weight 20 to 60 pounds

2 Don t buy a Swift with an auxiliary fuel tank- it s 14 pounds of extra weight

3 If the Swift has tube radios don t pay anything for them they have to go

4 If it has a fully gyro panel ditto 5 Have a pre-purchase inspection done

by a mechanic who knows Swifts Reshymember these wonderful airplanes are old so be alert for corrosion and bad prevIOus repaIrs

6 In particular inspect the area of the lower spar of the center section

If the airplane has been belly-landed and most have be ale rt for cracks from the emergency gear extension bracket at the center of the airplane

7 If the airplane is a converted GC-LA make sure it was done according to SB 27 In particular ensure the corshyrect wing fittings are installed

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8 Check the engine mount per AD 64-05-06

THE SWIFT WASAPPROVED UNDER CAR 4A

ANYSWIFT WILL LOOP AND ROLL

Okay you bought a Swift but before you do aerobatics I recommend

I The empty weight should not exshyceed 1200 pounds preferably less

2 The ailerons should not be painted for flutter considerations

3 Do a thorough Annual inspection inshyspect all cable runs for frayed cables and rusty cables Inspect all structure paying particular attention to the horshyizontal stabilizer spar at the rivets of the first rib Later well talk about reshyinforcing this area Check any older metal airplane for corrosion

4 Lighten the airplane where its easy and practical Remove all gyros and plumbing and venturis use an elecshytric tum and bank if you fly serious IFR youve got the wrong plane Remove all tube type (heavy) radios

Retain one comm 760 and transponshyder and use a GPS for nav Use a 20 amp generator-a 35A generator weighs 16 pounds An alternator can require 2 or 3 hp to tum it

A quality battery can weigh 27 pounds a cheapie weighs 16 pounds Use Slick 6364 mags (10 pounds) or Bendix S6LNshy21 ( 115 pounds) The interior upholstery can be heavy The original seats can weigh 35 pounds The floor rug can weigh five pounds

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If you get to the air show stage the ELT can even be removed

Clean the interior vacuum out the belly

If the old D-2 wobble pump is still inshystalled remove it and install an electric pump (Two or three pounds lighter)

Remove landing lights rotating beashycons unused antennas

If you dont have the straight stack exhaust get it

A Sensenich M74DR-I prop weighs three pounds less than a McCauley DM739

Those are the bigger things To really get the weight down youve got to go a little extreme Examples

The early 0-300s used magnesium mount legs later aluminum-magnesium intake elbows and manifolds

You may be able to get by with a 12A generator

Check the BampC starter out its lighter and better but expensive The ELI landing gear is several pounds lighter than Adel

Check your gear motor some are too heavy

Aluminum screws can be used in non structural applications fairings windshield retainers etc

Removing the oil cooler is not usually recommended but its not required legally with a fixed pitch prop

The fuel tank filler is a steel tube it could be aluminum Strip the paint if its painted

Cleveland wheels amp brakes are great but heavier than Goodyear Aluminum hose ends on all the hoses save a few ounces McCreary 4-ply tires are recomshymended both for low overall weight and fast gear retraction

The little wires most Swifts have for gear down indicators are light and simple But if you properly wire in another gear down light you save a few ounces and some aerodynamic drag

The brass plugs on the engine can be exshychanged for aluminum

Eat less Fly with 112 full tanks

Note I havent mentioned anything in the tail section First of all the Swift flies better with an aft CG its faster and more responsive There are several things which could be lighter in this area but its a Catch-22 Most Swifts have between 95 pounds and 15 pounds of ballast in the tail There are various tail wheels approved on the airplane with their weight from four to nine pounds If you remove the ballast and install a non-steerable tail wheel you might lighten the airplane by 15 pounds but ruin its flight characteristics and make it hard to land The tail wheel shock strut is heavy too and could be made lighter Talking theory all this could be done and the battery moved aft The catch is the heavy battery cable reshyquired could negate some of the gain Also the existing approvals for battery relocation call for it to be installed beshyhind the baggage compartment If it were in the aft fuselage an external access door would be required for all but the young and athletic

The rudder skin is 032 thick which is ridiculous compared to a Cessna or Piper which typically use 016 and stiffening beads The Swift needs the thick skin to avoid oil canning and wrinshykles and as pointed out they need additional weight in the tail anyway

Little known facts The early fuselages are 75 pounds

lighter than the late ones In fact the real early ones with the light sk in (020 and

025) are probably lighter yet Thats why some GC-I As required 15 pounds ballast when converted

The early horizontal and vertical stabilizer spars are 050 instead of 063 but this is not a good place to save a few ounces

The early Swifts with the riveted on center section are structurally superior except a few serial numbers after 1000 which have 332 rivets in the row below the windshield-these should be 18 rivets

Modifications The stock wing tips should be used The slots have been STCd to be

closed but the method is crude and heavy There have been field approvals to do it a little more cleanly Do not reshymove the stall strips in conjunction with closed slots Short wing tips like the modified Bonanza tip dont do much for lift but stall nice (but beware the sink rate) and probably are more spin resisshytant (probably) The angle of incidence on the horizontal stabilizer is different (less) on the later airplanes This can be duplicated by copying the rear attach fitshyting from any of the 2300B or 2400B (sIn 3600 through 3760) series of Temco airplanes and comparing it to what youve got A converted GC-IA probashybly has a longer fitting Caution someone may have changed this previshy

ously check it before you cut any metal Treat any previous modifications with suspicion even ifSTCd STC holders continually warn against a combination of modi fications which may be incomshypatible A modified hatch may be unsuitable for aerobatics since it might not be possible to exit the airplane in flight A stock hatch cannot be opened at high speeds Can you get out the window with a parachute Sticks are a popular modification these days since they make landings and loops easier by changing the ratio of control movement to elevator displacement

Moving the battery to the back of the baggage compartment is usually a good move especially when a Merlyn Products access door is installed although I hate to cut a big hole like that in an airplane I dont know if need mention the old Corben tails and wing tips should never be used The Sensenich M74DR-I prop is STCd at a pitch of 62 inches This is too much pitch I understand Merlyn has a 145 STC which allows a more sensible 58 inches or thereabouts pitch The preshyferred engine is an 0-300A A C-145-2 is for all practical purposes identical if it has a D in the serial number (Deshynotes dampened crankshaft) The 0-300D can be used if an A crankshaft is inshystalled Continental has an Engineering Deviation on this The engine should be in good mechanical condition with no

low cylinders or weak mags or bad plugs The latest cylinders have larger 30 deshy

gree intake valves and the latest camshafts are considerably different All the 0-300 camshafts are pIn 530803 but the late ones have the number circling the shaft and the early ones have it longitushydinal Also the late ones are 530803AN or 530803AU or 530803AT etc Its inshyteresting that all these engines are rated at 145 hp Kenny Maxwell at the Maxwell prop shop once told me no enshygine varies so much in output as the 0-300 and what was a good prop on one airplane wouldnt turn up on another Downdraft cooling and fiberglass cowl are okay mods I just like a metal cowl

The Merlyn gross weight increase adds only a few ounces of weight and makes the wings stronger so it would be desirable for aerobatics 150 seats shyokay Shoulder harness-absolutely Bubble Canopy Personal preference I like em original but I must admit the canopies are nice Quieter too Get an inshytercom regardless It only weighs a few ounces

Adjust the aileron stops Remove the aileron locate the coarse threaded I 0 aileron stop bolt take it out first and move the plain check nut to be next to the bolt head reinstall Contact should be made at the wing before the secondary stops under the panel check the manual

Check the rudder travel It should be

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adjusted for maximum L-R movement Check the manual Tension rudder cables 70 pounds

The engine should run smoothly and have minimal mag drop With the Swift Association STC you are somewhat limshyited on prop selection and allowable static rpm The STC limits static rpm to 2130 The STC was gotten as a paper exercise by Piedmont and has some strange stuff in it In effect you have a 125 hp 0-300 The STC actually requires a placard Do not exceed 125 hp 2270 rpm at any time This really shows lazishyness on the part of whoever issued the STC Actually the 0-300 puts out 125 hp at 29 inches of manifold pressure and 2270 rpm so this is legal but not wise to run continuously If they wanted to reshystrict the Swift to 125 hp they should have published the following

125hp Power settings for 0-300 engines

125 hp= 2700 rpm x 25 MP 125 hp= 2500 rpm x 267 MP 125 hp= 2450 rpm x 272 MP 125 hp= 2300 rpm x 287 MP 125 hp= 2270 rpm x 29 MP

125 hp Is 86 percent power for a 145 hp engine Do not cruise cootinuously with MP (Wer one Inch higher than rpm

Note 75 power = 10875 hp 65 power- 9425 hp

A typical setting with a fixed pitch prop might be 2450 rpm and 24 inches MP This is 75 percent power or 10875 hp well below 86 percent As a matter of practicality at our local airport elevashytion 932 feet full throttle will yield less than 29 inches MP With full throttle we get 27 2 inches MP and 2270 rpm (which my Swift does typically) that is about 110 hp available on takeoff per the Continental 0-300 operators manual power chart with my prop

I mentioned the Swift was approved under CAR 4a The current FAR 23 has different categories Normal Utility and Aerobatic In 4a all airplanes are aeroshybatic limited by placards The Swift has only two required placards

(a)INTERNA TIONAL SPINS PROshyHIBITED

(b)DO NOT LOWER LANDING GEAR ABOVE 1 00 MPH

A letter was published by Temco in 1949 concerning aerobatics which is copied here

24 MAY 1998

TEXAS ENGINEERING AND MANshyUFACTURING CO INC

DALLAS TEXAS July 18 1949

FLIGHT CHARACTERISTICS OF SWIFT MODEL CG-1 B

The subject airplane is certified under the requirements of normal category airshyplanes as specified by U S Civil Air Regulations Part 04 Airplane Airworthishyness dated November 1 1943

The flight maneuvers listed below for the subject airplane are itemized to familshyiarize those not acquainted with the GC-l B Swift These maneuvers are essentially aerobatic-type and do not include normal cross-country type of maneuvers

SLOW ROLL Obtain approximately 140 mph airspeed before initiating maneuvers

SNAP ROLL Obtain 80-85 mph airspeed before initiatshying maneuvers

LOOP Obtain 155-175 mph airspeed before initishyating maneuvers Tight maneuver will result in a high speed stall and inversely a loose maneuver will result in a slow speed stall In either condition airplane will have tendency to fall off on either side but will not result in an inverted spin

CHANDELLE Obtain 155-175 mph airspeed before initishyating maneuver (see loops)

IMMELMANN Obtain 165-175 mph airspeed before initishyating maneuver (see loops)

STEEP CLIMBING TURNS Obtain 75-85 mph airspeed for short durashytion (not to exceed five minutes)

DIVE Do not exceed 185 mph (design speed 210 mph)

INVERTED FLIGHT Inverted flight maneuvers are prohibited except for very short duration Oil presshysure will drop off due to the particular type of engine oil system

STALLS Normal stalls and whip stalls

SPINS Airplane is placarded against intentional spins - not because of structural strength but due to spin characteristics A two (2) turn spin can be accomplished with a 1-112 turns to recover by using opposite ailerons and full forward stick Above this point speed of turns builds up and air-

plane has tendency to flatten out Six (6) turn spins will require approximately four (4) turns to recover by using opposite controls and intermittent throttle blast

L A Childs Chief Engineer

The statement on spins is self-explanashytory and also tells why the Swift is not often entered in competition where spins are important scoring maneuvers As a personal observation the Swift does not spin readily and resumes normal flight immediately if forward yoke is applied immediately Of course opposite rudder would be called for but that would be in a full blown fully developed spin A snap roll which is a horizontal spin requires about 14 times normal stall speed G loading to a stall and rudder in the direcshytion of the snap Repeated snap rolls are not recommended The airplane is now 50 years old and the tail structure will deshyvelop loose rivets and cracks and perhaps eventually fail

I do not feel the Swift needs to do spins and snap rolls to be a sport acro airplane

The Swift flown by competent pilots is an excellent airshow airplane The flight performance is more enjoyable for many because of its smoothness not snap-snap maneuvers Bob Hoover never snapped the P-51 either With the smaller engines aerobatics in the Swift is an enshyergy management process if done in an airshow environment Several very good pilots have done relatively low-G airshyshows some with engines as big as the 10-360 Continental and Lycoming Ironishycally the bigger (heavier) engines require lower G maneuvers Not too many peoshyple have seen Mark Holliday perform in the GC-l A but he at 1100 pounds empty weight has the most margin of all I beshylieve Mark was first to perform a gear down loop at an airshow with a Swift

I see where unlimited acrobatic airshyplanes now weigh 1170 pounds with 310 hp Were in a different world here

-Continued in next months issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE-

If youre Interested In Swifts you can contact the International Swift Association at

Charlie Nelson PO Box 644 Athens TN 37371

~42374~9547

Email swiftlychsaIocom

Or look at their Web Site at http wwwnapanetnet-arbeauswlft

February Mystery Plane

The February Mystery Plane was adshymittedly pretty tough and we only received one correct answer

The February Mystery Plane is a Crawford Special (surprise surprise) X450E was serial number 504 and toshymorrow is the 69th Anniversary of its registra tion on 21 February 1929 Powered by three Szekely R3 engines it

Aprtl Mystery Plane This month s Mystery Plane

won t be nearly as easy as the

two most recent airplanes but

many of you who love the postshy

WW II period will enjoy racking

your brains trying to remember

where youd seen it before To be

included in the August issue of

Vintage Airplane your answer

needs to be in to EAA HQ no later

than June 25 1998

was built by Crawford Motor amp Airshyplane Inc Seal Beach CA It appears to be a development ofthe Anzani powshyered Crawford Sport featured in Jo e Juptners T-Hangar Tales as the worlds littlest tri-motor William F Crawford and his company appear to have built a number oftypes in the late 1920 s and early 1930s

Yours faithfully Vic Smith NC 13710 Uxbridge Middlesex United Kingdom

We did have one more answer to the January Mystery- thanks Frank Abar or Livonia MI

Lennart Johnsson of Eldsberga Sweshyden graciously wrote to correct part of his answer to the Schmuck airplane

1 must reluctantly admit that I am a careless fellow I my letter to you 5 Janshyuary quoted in the Mystery Plane section ofthe March issue of VINTA GE AIRPLANE I stated the reg no ofthe

by HC Frautschy

Schmuck Sportster parasol was 510 Obshyviously it wasnt 510 was the Schmuck biplane says John Underwood and in him we trust IfSchmuck Sportster was the same thing as West Coast WCK-2 as stated in this March issue its regisshytration no must have been X10536 which certain ly is more in harmony with the modern look othe aircraft

First registered in 1930 it had a Kinner engine and nothing else

Thanks for the correction Lennart

Send your Mystery Plane corresponshydence to

Vintage Mystery Plane EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Crawford Special

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by EE Buck Hilbert EM 21 Ale 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Dear Buck The letter and your reply about faulty

mag switches in March Vintage Airshyplane prompts me to pass on another possible problem which I came across some years ago I took over our groups airplane from an instructor and a stushydent possibly having his first lesson The keys were lying on top of the inshystrument panel as usual Before doing my walkround I climbed in to check the fuel state and just happened to spot that the mags were still on

The instructor having stopped the enshygine by pulling the mixture to lean had climbed out to arrange the refueling and asked the student to Take the keys out As the engine wasnt running he had just pulled on the keys and the switch was sufficiently worn for them to come out without any force being needed

As you keep saying always treat the prop as HOT

Back to you Vic Smith AlC 13710 Uxbridge Middlesex United Kingdom

Yow Thats a new one for me but it certainly could happen give the age of many ofthe mag switches in our favorite old airplanes 1 guess we should also be carejitl ofhow literal someone might take our request

Dear Buck Can you take one more thing about

the forward sloping windshields After writing to you in January about

26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel

these windshields I decided to to check it out with the man I consider to be the source Bill Cook joined Boeing in 1936 as an engineer with an MS degree from MIT and was the Chief of the Technical staff in the Transport Division of Boeing when he retired in 1974 He was in charge of their high speed wind tunnel during and after WW II and was Assisshytant Proj ect Engineer on the XB-47 Aerodynamics Unit

I am enclosing a copy of his rep ly about the windshield on the first 247s

The picture of the Kinner Navy Envoy in the March issue of V A stirs memories I believe it was Megow that sold a neat model kit of this beautiful airplane

Dale Crane AlC 25513 Basin WY

Dear Mr Crane Thank you very much for your kind

words about my book The Road to the 707 The readership is quite selective and [ am always interested in the reader s reactions

Concerning your question about the windshield on the 247 J asked a good friend Clayton Scott 92 years old and still flying about his experiences when heflew 247sfor United he could not reshy

member whether or not he flew the back slanted type installed on the first 30 He had no comments on the windshield J had thought that the back slant was to avoid reflections oflights on the ground but he did not confirm this Another friend Dick Rouzie designed the flight controls on the 247 He thought that a Boeing pilot had asked for this design so he could look through the windshield at right angles when looking at the ground on landing The early laminated safety glass on the Model A Fords was so wary that drivers complained Acrylic (Plexishyglasreg) was not available until the war from Rohm amp Hass a German concern The early plastic windshields for airshyplanes were made ofcelluloid and these would color yellow in a year in the sun

Dick Rouzie said that the 247 windshyshield was designed by Boris Korry who was one ofseveral Russian engineers who escaped to the US during the [1918 revolution Seattle was where they got offthe boat The engineering department then probably had less than 50 engineers

Bill Cook Bellevue WA

Dear Buck Back in the good old days the 30s

most small airplanes like Cubs and

Aeroncas and others were sold and delivered without an airshyspeed indicator These did not become required equipment until the late 30s or maybe 1940 Of course the owner could always have one installed ifhe could afford it

Pilots were taught to judge their speed by the attitude of the plane as well as by the sound of the wind in the wires the feel of the pressure on the controls and by that feeling in the seat of the pants as a stall approached I always thought this was imshyportant for a pilot to learn and back when I did a lot of elementary instruction I always included at least one lesson with the pitot tube covered

During the War whi le I was assigned to fly Grumman Wildshycats in the Pacific Fleet a new pilot assigned to the Squadron had not been taught well One time he was attempting to take off on a 5000 runway he had neglected to remove the pitot cover and as he accelerated down the runway he yelled to himshyselfAIRSPEED AIRSPEED NO AIRSPEED and he held the plane on the ground at fu ll throttle till he ran off the end of the runway through the fence through a couple of chicken coops and a barn He must have been do ing at least 250 kts and could have easily zoomed up to 5000 if only he had alshylowed the ship to lift off (Being a ship bui lt by the Grumman Iron Works he was not injured)

Among my administrative duties was that of Squadron Safety Officer wherein it was my job to write a report of the accident and to make recommendations that would prevent such an accident from recurring My recommendation was that in Primary training navy Pilots should be given an hour of dual instruction with the pitot tube covered so he could learn that a plane can actually fly without an airspeed indicator

This report went all the way through the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics and to the desk of non other than Admiral Ernest 1 King Chief of Naval Operations He didnt like my report one bit and I received a severe reprimand for being so reckless and irresponsible as to make such a hazardous recommendation This reprimand went into my personal life

When I had been a primary flight instructor prior to my fleet duty many of my students were assigned to me for extra time after they had failed a check ride [ found that many of these exshytra time students had had AIRSPEED AIRSPEED WATCH YOUR AIRSPEED yelled at them so firmly and often that it was their whole problem The kept their heads down in the cockpit chasing the ASI needle up and down that they couldn t do anything right As soon as I saw this common problem the first thing I did was to land at the nearest outlying field get the pitot cover out of the baggage compartment and cover the pitot tube They we would take off and demonstrate how to judge the speed without an ASI

This always solved the problem (In those days we were flyshying StearnlaJls and N3Ns)

I think that todays primary students would benefit if the FAA required at least one lesson without an ASI before solo

Over to you Buck HaJ1k Palmer St Petersburg FL

Partial panel work is always a great idea Hank - these days we have those little round rubber or plastic covers we can stick right over the instrument we want them to forget Teaching them why a plane flies and how it sounds andfeels is as valid today in a 72 as it was in a Fleet or a Champ

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Sun n Fun has kicked off the beginshyning of the fly-in season Now all of the local Chapter activities will

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It was my pleasure to serve as presishydent of this Chapter in the late 1960s At that time it was a small group with maybe 25 members For the most part we were focused on homebuilt aircraft At that time I was building a Pitts SIC intending to become the world aerobatic champion That never came to pass because Dick Austin a fellow member caused me to catch MONOCOUPE fever I have been a vintage airplane nut ever since

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At our last AlC board meeting held last month Alan R Shackleton was appointed by the Board of Directors to be an AnshytiqueClassic Advisor Alan is from Sugar Grove IL and is the current president of the Fox Valley Sport Aviation Associashytion as well as EAA Chapter 579 in Aurora IL He has also served as their NewsLetter Editor He is the CUlTent Presshyident of the EAA Chapter Advisory Council and an EAA Representive to the Illinois Aviation Forum and Hall of Fame Alan restored a Staggerwing B17L SIN 3 the 1983 Oshkosh Reserve Grand Champion He has owned and flown a 1946 Luscombe 8A since 1985 His curshyrent project is a 1949 Stinson 108-3 He has a private pilot license with approxishymately 600 hrs and all but 100 of them have been in tailwheel airplanes Noted by one of the directors was the fact that not only are we getting Alan on board but we will have the support of his great wife Donna We look forward to having their positive input in the future

I don t know how the flying weather has been where you are located but here in the Carolinas it has been rough air since the first of the year 1 mean no fun at all The South and Southeast have had their share of tornados I have a buildshying in Madison NC located next to my home place It is 40 by 60 and I use it as a work shop for different projects On the national news you may have seen the torshynado that hit Stonevil le NC It got its head of steam up at my shop where it reshymoved most of the shingles from the roof and sucked the front concrete block wall almost off the foundation causing a bow in the wall That is one repair project that I have not figured out how to fix as of yet 1fared much better than a lot of other peoshyple did in town Our thoughts and concerns go out to all of those who have had losses from these storms this year

I to ld you last month 1 would share some of the information that Ken Woodard gave me concerning the history of my recently acquired 8E N2628K Heres part of what he wrote

The previous owner before Ken was Jim Beck If you look in John Swick s book titled The Luscombe Story on page 196 you will find Jim s name listed as a Luscombe dealer in Zionsville Indiana in 1948 where Jim ran his small airport and was an AampP at Beck Airport Over a peshyriod of years he owned a number of different airplanes including the Parks P-2 biplane later owned by Richard Bach aushythor of lonathan Livingston Seagull and numerous books about people airplanes and flying N2628K also was one Jim owned for a few years up to about 1969 when he was diagnosed with cancer He sold 2628K in 69 or 70 to the man I bought it from in 1972 As it turned out 1 built a house in the same town where Jim was living and when he found out I owned 2628K he looked me up and told me about the following disasters that ocshycurred to that old airplane while he owned it Despite the accident stories Ill soon reshylate to you Jim and the other people who flew it had many enjoyable hours in the airplane as I did also when I owned it

Ill quote more from Kens note next month

To all of those people who have been so great to support the 10nl membership drive thank you very much the Board of Directors and I ask that you keep up the great job There are some members we have not heard from and it would be great if each member could recruit at least one new member so they too could enjoy your great magazine Vintage Airshyplane and have the pride of sporting the AC logo Next month I will list all of the chairmen of the different Antique Classic activities taking place during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh so you will know who to contact should you have a question in advance of the Convention Again I would like to caution everyone to be very safety minded while operating your aircraft - we need all of you around for a long time Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviation Reshymember we are better together Join us and have it all

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APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















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Anton Bileks Spirit
















nonexistent budget
















by HG Frautschy





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5




6 MAY 1998



by Hank Palmer
















EYESPUCE t

HEM AROUND --

EYESPUCE

NOTES




FIGURE 8 KNOTS ~

t ROPE





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7


8 MAY 1998


photos by JACK COX


bull


- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



VINTAGE

AeroMail DANISH CUB



=


EshyCTl

bull gtlt Q

J EshyCTl


bull ~

~

ltCTl

l



They ~ for

$1425 and



bull





Americas Safe Plane







4 MAY 1998










Anton Bileks Spirit
















nonexistent budget
















by HG Frautschy





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5




6 MAY 1998



by Hank Palmer
















EYESPUCE t

HEM AROUND --

EYESPUCE

NOTES




FIGURE 8 KNOTS ~

t ROPE





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7


8 MAY 1998


photos by JACK COX


bull


- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



Anton Bileks Spirit
















nonexistent budget
















by HG Frautschy





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5




6 MAY 1998



by Hank Palmer
















EYESPUCE t

HEM AROUND --

EYESPUCE

NOTES




FIGURE 8 KNOTS ~

t ROPE





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7


8 MAY 1998


photos by JACK COX


bull


- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252






6 MAY 1998



by Hank Palmer
















EYESPUCE t

HEM AROUND --

EYESPUCE

NOTES




FIGURE 8 KNOTS ~

t ROPE





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7


8 MAY 1998


photos by JACK COX


bull


- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



by Hank Palmer
















EYESPUCE t

HEM AROUND --

EYESPUCE

NOTES




FIGURE 8 KNOTS ~

t ROPE





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7


8 MAY 1998


photos by JACK COX


bull


- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252




8 MAY 1998


photos by JACK COX


bull


- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



- - ----






-shyshy

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9




10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252






10 MAY 1998

lI













VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252










VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11


by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252




by NORM PETERSEN











12 MAY 1998









14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252







14 MAY 1998


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252














VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



Work In Progress

16 MAY 1998

by HG FRAUTSCHY












j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252








j11

~




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17





HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



HG Frautschy






18 MAY 1998






















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252















20 MAY 1998


NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252




NOT FAA APPROVED


DOES NOT

CONSTITUTE

APPROVED DATA

THIS DOCUMENT

EXPRESSES MY

OWN OPINIONS AND

WHILE I FEEL THEY

ARE ACCURATE

OTHERS MAY DISAGREE

AND THEY MAY BE


-JIM MONTAGUE






















22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252













22 MAY 1998















































24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



























24 MAY 1998

























~42374~9547
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252
















than June 25 1998






by HC Frautschy






Crawford Special

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25










26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252












26 MAY 1998

PaSSitto Buel


























ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252
















ULTRALIGHTS
































28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252


























28 MAY 1998





























































US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252











US and Canada



83 wHiI


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



VINTAGE TRADER





MISCELLANEOUS











30 MAY 1998

























Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252




Winter Haven FL

Both are ATPs





AUAis

~ BflM approved

To become an

EAA Antique amp

Classic Division

Membercall










outstanding




800-727-3825






No age penalty











































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252









































a friend















NEW MEMBER CAMPAIGN

CALL 1-800-826-9252



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