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October 1994 Vol 22 No 10

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CONTENTS 1 Straight amp Level

Espie Butch Joyce

2 AlC News Compiled by H G Frautschy

3 Aeromail

4 AD Notes and You Bill Claxon Page 6

6 Aircraft Antennas for the Pilot shyPart WBill Butters

9 Something Old Something Newmiddot EAA OSHKOSH 94 H G Frautschy

20 Like Father HG Frautschy Page 9

25 Mystery Airplane George H ardie

25 Pass it to Buckl EE Buck Hilbert

28 Welcome New Members

29 AlC Calendar

30 Vintage Trader Page 20

FRONT COVER The winner of the Grand Champion Antique Lindbergh trophy at EAA OSHKOSH 94 this is Tom D Baker Jr and his 1941 BL-65 Taylorcraft EAA photo by Jim Koepnick Shot with a Canon EOS-1 equipped with an 80-200mm I f2 8 lens 1 250 at f81 on Kodak Ektachrome Lumiere 100 film Cessna 210 photo plane piloted by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER The only Curtiss Robin on Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage wa s awarded the first-ever G rand Champion Seaplane Lindy The Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 AC 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota EAA photo by Norm Petersen Shot with a Canon Elan camera equipped with an 80middot21Omm f4-5 6 lens 1 250 at f5 6 on Kodak Ektachrome Lumiere 100 film Piper Cub photo plane flown by Mike Weinfurter

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STRAIGHT ampLEVEL by Espie Butch Joyce

Each year during the last weekend of September the North Carolina Deshypartment of Transportation Division of Aviation in cooperation with the FAA hosts a North Carolina coastal air tour In the past Id never flown on this tour With the Fall weather here in the Carolinas having been so nice I decided we would do it this year

We loaded up the Baron and deshyparted the afternoon of September 23 for Manteo NC After landing at Dare County Airport we registered with the group and drove over to our hotel at Nags Head located on the outer banks of North Carolina Nags Head at one time was a pirates hangshyout Blackbeard and his crew among others harbored there on the inlet side The town was called Nags Head because they would hang a lantern around the head of an old nag and walk it up and down the sand dunes along the beach Ships would see this light bobbing up and down and thinkshying it was another ship they would come over to follow in trail only to run aground The local pirates would carry off the ships goods once it broke up For a while it was a lucrative way for the pirates to make a living

Just north of Nags Head is the town of Kill Devil Hills of Wright brothers fame The imposing memorial there is well worth the visit There is a hard runway within walking distance opershyated by the National Park Service

On Friday night we went over to Fort Island where Sir Walter Raleigh landed on the shores of America with the first colonial settlers Sir Walter

went back to England and when he reshyturned everyone was gone For many years a play The Lost Colony has been staged during the summer months to dramatize what might have happened to the colony Years earshylier my dad told me that he knew what had happened to them - the mosquitoes carried them off

We departed Saturday morning flyshying in trail down the beach side of the outer banks

The State and FAA had cleared the restricted areas and MOAs in the area for us Nearly 100 airplanes flew in trail down the coast We all landed at Beaufort North Carolina where we were on our own to track down lunch Beaufort is an old whaling village datshying back to the 1740s Lunch on the water there was great and a walking tour of the historical area was fun

We then departed Beaufort for Wilmington North Carolina for a stay overnight We all had dinner on the fantail of the battleship USS North Carolina with a speaker program after the meal

We returned home to Shilo airport on Sunday satisfied with a great weekshyend If youre in the local area next year you may want to check with the North Carolina Department of Transshyportation to find out when the coastal air tour will take place

On the business side your Board of Directors will be meeting in Oshkosh the first weekend of Novemshyber Should you have any items that you feel we need to address please let me know so we can add it to the agenda We will be discussing this

past Convention to help us determine what things can be done to make EAA Oshkosh 95 even more enjoyshyable for our membership Any items that need correcting from a grounds or physical plant (buildings etc) standpoint need to be taken care of early because of the long winter seashyson in Oshkosh

Another item of interest to the membership up for discussion at the Board meeting will be our dues strucshyture Your dues at this time are $2000 per year In 1993 it cost the AnshytiqueClassic Division almost $2500 to service each member We have been able to offset this extra expense because of the advertising income from VINTAGE AIRPLANE and the merchandise sales during the year most of which occurs at Oshkosh at each years Convention We are now starting to lose ground because of printing expense postage and other items Weve been advised that we should expect as much as a 6 percent increase in the cost of paper right away with another increase later next year To top that off the US Postal Service is revising the non-profit postage rates this year eventually eliminating the lower rates for nonshyprofit associations

Should anyone have any good ideas along this line I would like to hear from you

For now you can help your Divishysion by asking a friend to join the AnshytiqueClassic Division Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of avishyation Remember we are better toshygether Join us and have it all

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 1

compiled by HG Frautschy

NEW ARTWORK FOR VINTAGE AIRPLANE

You may notice as you peruse the pages of this month s VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE that there is some new artwork gracing the pages of Mystery Plane Welshycome New Members and the Fly-In Calshyendar Long time EAA and member Jim Newman who has volunteered his sershyvices in the past for EAA has graciously consented to work up some drawings for us when we could use his deft pen and ink touch His first efforts were directed towards sprucing up the heads of a few of our columns and next month youll see the fruits of his technical illustration labors Many readers may recall the inshytricate drawing of the Laird Super Solushytion for EAAs book on the creation of the Solution replica - it too was the creshyation of this talented man Jim s vocashytion is as an artist and he excels at techshynical illustration a form of industrial art Jim has been working at for most of his long career If you think your company could use someone as talented as Jim for your project you can contact him in Hoshybart IN at 219942-2571 His volunteer efforts for the Division are appreciated

HEllO COURIER TYPE CERTIFICATE SOLD

Helio Enterprises Inc of 17644 SE 293rd Place Kent W A 98042 has purshychased the type certificate drawings enshygineering data and production tooling for the complete line of Helio aircraft Helio is currently putting a plan together to support the approximately 250 Courishyers still flying They also plan on investishy

gating the possibility of putting the airshyplane back into production You can contact them at 206639-1446 or fax at 206639-0332

CESSNA 170 STC

Barnstormer Aviation who has alshyready obtained STC approval for altershynator installations in the Aircoupe and Cessna 12011401140A has announced the availability of an STC for installation of a 60 amp alternator on the Cessna 170170A170B For more information contact Fred Lagno at Barnstormers Aviation 911 Sportsman Neck Rd Queenstown MD 21658 or call 410827shy7896

KEEP LORAN GOING

The US Coast Guard is considering the termination of the Loran C system which would leave a large number of users holding the bag with useless equipshyment Aviation marine and and many other users find th e Loran C system to be perfectly adequate for their needs The Wild Goose Association collected over 4500 signatures on a petition supshyporting the Loran C system at EAA OSHKOSH 94 EAA while certainly recognizing that GPS will be the navigashytion system of the future supports the continued maintenance of the Loran C system You can address your comments about Loran C to Mr Frank Kruesi Asshysistant Secretary for Transportation polshyicy US Department of Transportation 400 7th Street SW Washington DC 20590

EAA OSHKOSH 94 VIDEO

It was a great one thats for sure and you can relive the action of the 1994 EAA Fly-In and Convention with a copy of Destination Oshkosh the outstanding producshytion by the EAA Video staff that chronicles the entire spectrum of events during the Convention Included is footage of the AntiqueClassic area and aircraft the Apollo astronauts reunion Concorde and many other fascinating parts of the Convention Order your copy today by calling EAAs toll-free order number 1shy800843-3612 The 60 minute show is available for $1995 plus $300 shipping and handling

2 OCTOBER 1994

NASM NEEDS HELP TO DISPLAY

BETTY SKELTONS PITTS

Curators and volunteers at the Smithshysonian s National Air and Space Museum are working to prepare Betty Skeltons Pitts Special for display The Pitts dubbed Little Stinker was the airplane used by Betty to win the National Aeroshybatic Championships in 1948 49 and 1950 It is the second Pitts Special built by Curtiss Pitts in 1946 and sold originally to Jess Bristow who had Curtiss friend Phil Quigley fly the biplane in airshows during 1947 When bought by Betty in 1948 she immediately started to use it for her own airshow and competition work and in doing so she set the world of aeroshybatics on its ear The small biplane would dominate the world aerobatic scene for many years to follow

When first built by Curtiss the second Pitts had a Continental C-85-8F5 engine Later she had a Continental C-90-8FJ fuel injected engine installed (the same engine as in an Aeronca L-16) swinging a McCauley IB90CM7148 prop When donated to the NASM both the engine and prop were missing If you can supply either a C90-8F or 8FJ (the NASM has the correct fuel injection system so the engine does not have to come with one) andor a 1B90 McCauley prop please contact either Rick Leyes Aero Propulshysion curator or Dorothy Cochrane the NASMs General Aviation curator at 202357-2515 Neither the engine or the prop needs to be in airworthy condition although Id imagine they would need the prop to be relatively undamaged You can write to them at National Air and Space Museum MRC 312 Room 3308 Smithsonian Institution Washington DC 20560

MAIL

DART NOTE

Dear Editor

The article in the July issue of SPORT A VIA nON about Allen Johnsons Dart was most interesting to me While I was a student at Parks Air College (now part of St Louis University) in 1936-37 and 38 I was given the job of forming new cylinder head baffles for Monocoupe The new ones directed the airflow down toward the rear spark plugs where the thermocouples were located on Lambert engines No doubt this was one of Al Mooneys ideas Also while a student a group of us saw the twin Monocoach at the Monocoupe factory At that time we didnt know who Al Mooney was

After graduating from Parks in 1938 Oliver Parks got me a job with Dart Mfg Co in Columbus Ohio They wanted someone who could do sheet metal work There were 12 to 15 of us in the whole factory Al and Art Mooney Bill McMashyhon Charlie Jamieson Karl Repple Bob Hale myself and a few others Charlie Karl Bob and I were all Parks graduates Believe me each Dart was handmade One particular one gave us a real probshylem the bolt holes in the fuselage for the wing spar didn t line up with the holes in the big aluminum boss in the spar After

agonizing for awhile Al Mooney said to put undrilled bosses in the wing and line drill them Of course that worked

My first job was to make the wing root fairings which are about five feet long and full of compound curves Thats when I started to learn a little about movshying sheet metal around I never did get one as good as I wanted

The D windows on Allens Dart were not original but they are a nice adshydition He surely did a beautiful job restoring this historic airplane

One open cockpit Dart was suspended from the ceiling of Foster Lanes part of the hangar It had a lop-eared jackass painted on the tail with a halo around its head Wonder what became of it

Al Mooney was a wonderful guy but had a short fuse at times One time Speed Wycoff our part-time salesman and test pilot said the public would like to see certain changes in the Dart Al said To hell with the public We build good airshyplanes The public can take it or leave it

We put a 165 Warner in one special built clipped-wing Dart It also had a peg leg landing gear We built the special wings in one week It still wasnt as fast as the clipped-wing Monocoupe we found out one day during the race at Columbus We also built a pair of wings for the Dart

that had the retractable landing gear like the Bellanca I don t think they were ever used someone correct me if Im wrong I left the company about that time in 1940 but not before we built and tested the new Culver Cadet I made the first nose cowl for the Cadet by pounding two pieces of 040 2S0 aluminum into a female form then welded the two halves together and then I pounded some more I also made gear leg fairings that looked good and almost enclosed the gear when retracted Didnt help the speed a bit so we didnt use them

The Cadet had some bad spins at aft CG On one test flight the pilot had to deploy the spin chute to stop the spin It stopped the spin ok but tore off part of the plane and came floating down over a prison Caused quite a little excitement On another flight or maybe the same one the vertical fin spar broke right at the base but stayed in place The pilot landed safely and shut it down way out on the field We towed it in so the public wouldn t see what happened

The reason I quit Culver in 1940 was to increase my income I was being paid $7500 per month I went to work in Tuscaloosa Alabama helping maintain a fleet of Stearmans and CPT planes In the meantime Culver got the contract for the PQ8s and moved to Wichita In early 1941 they called me and offered me a fabulous salary of $20000 per month to come to Wichita as foreman of the sheet metal department I made the move There were about 30 sheet metal workers in that department I soon found out what my job was The company had a large number of PQ8s completed but the military wouldnt buy them because no two metal parts would interchange Fishynally got it all straightened out After that we built thousands of planes At one time we were completing seven planes a day

I feel that I was fortunate to have been able to work with Al and Art Mooney and Bill McMahon

Allen take good care of that Dart

Sincerely

Bill Riedesel EAA 240009 Mentone AL 35984

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3

ADS

YOU Airworthiness Directives these words tend to send a chill up the spine of some airplane owners and indeed some cringe at the thought ADs can be costly It is my opinion that the manufacturer should pick up the tab on the ADs of the newer airplanes They have design flaws but the companies seem to be immune to

4 OCTOBER 1994

by Bill Claxon

the cost of resolving their mistakes By and large the owner must pick up the tab for these bills and some of them can run into thousands of dollars The older airshyplanes with hundreds even thousands of hours and decades of existence and use are another story

Even if the manufacturer were to be

held liable many are no longer in exisshytence It is sad to see so many of the old companies go by the wayside but the realshyities of economics sometimes dictate their demise Normally most of these older aircraft have had most if not all of their outstanding ADs complied with but some do slip through the cracks and occasionshyally there are some ADs coming down the pike as age catches up with them

It is interesting to note that on many of these older airplanes most of the ADs were small and inexpensive compared to the notes issued on the modern airplanes I have wondered about this and found a part of the answer High Performance Some of this is a result of the pursuit of ever higher performance envelopes To accomplish this the manufacturers have had to make compromises One of these is a reduction in weight which has resulted in a reduction in strength in some areas As pilots push the airplane ever closer and closer to the edge of the operating enshyvelope (and sometimes beyond) we are stressing the airplane But these operatshying envelopes are the desires of the potenshytial customer so the manufacturer tries to oblige AD notes are one of the results from these fulfilled desires and are being paid for in part by increased and expenshysive ADs A clear example is the conshystant-speed propellers used on many modshyern general aviation aircraft If you look at the older Hamilton Standard props on the more experienced aircraft you will be hard pressed to find AD notes But look at the modern props and you will see an abundance of expensive AD notes Why The manufacturers are calling for lighter weight props to help enhance the performance of their new aircraft These lighter props are blessed with lower TBOs and more bulletins Just a part of the cost of high performance

Most of these newer aircraft have a fairly good set of maintenance records when compared to some of our antiques and classics This a function in part of time in service and methods of mainteshynance record keeping Many of these airshyplanes go back decades and some of the records have been lost or destroyed inshycluding the records of AD compliance Are the ADs really complied with When How What do the maintenance records say Do they say it all Lets take a look

Part 393 of AFR states No person will operate a product to which an Airworthiness directive applies except in accordance with the requirements of that airworthiness directive

Subpart B - Airworthiness Directives

3911 Applicability This subpart identifies those products in which the Administrator has found an unshy

AD NOTES COMPLIANCE RECORD

Page _1_ of _1_ Date 23 Mar 86

Registration No N94017

AlC Certification Date 9-46

MakelModel ErcQupe 415C

Engine Model Cont C-75-12 SIN 1579-6-12

AD Rev Applicable Date amp 0 l

Date S8amp Hours Method of Compliance ltD-3middot Subject Comp ltD

59-25-05 X Rudder Rib 105 270ctV3 Inepection 856

69-02-03 X Rudder Belcrank IOMar69 Modified X 63 903 Belcrank

86-22-08 X Fuel Line 12Nov86 Imtaled X Nipple24A 1189 AN911-02 Nipple

D ltD 0 c l

lt0

X

Tach 1104 TT 1236

SIN 1430

Prop Model ___ SN ______

Next Authorized Compo amp Signature HrsDate ampNo

956 jim Medtmuc AampP $ampI

NIA jim Medtmuc AampP $ampI

NIA jim Medtmuc AampP $ampI

safe condition as described in amp391 and as appropriate prescribes inspections and limitations if any under which those prodshyucts may continue to be operated

135439 Maintenance recording reshyquirements - Paragraph 2 (v) The current status of applicable airworthishyness directives including the date and methods and if the airworthiness directives involves recurring action the time and date when the next action is required

Most maintenance records are not pershymanent by regulation Those that are not are items such as inspections These records may be discarded when supershyseded or after a given period of time ADs are not in this category These regushylations are saying that ADs are mandatory and that the compliance data is a mandashytory part of permanent records of the airshyplane usually the log books

Some ADs apply only to the engine propeller accessory or appliance In the years of operation and maintenance these items may have been changed out for new or used components The replacement may not have had the AD complied with yet the airplane maintenance records will show the AD as complied Years ago the logs would state All ADs CW at the periodic (annual) inspection but not tell the date or method of compliance This has been carried forward and inadvershytently the maintenance records are in ershyror Occasionally you will find an AD logged as complied with when it was not I know of instances where the owner or maintenance personnel has undone compliance by changing out parts These discrepancies show up often when the airshyplane has been out of service for a number of years and cannibalized for parts When those parts have been used on another airshyplane their maintenance history may not

go with them particularly if the part does not have its own serial number (composhynents such as carburetors and magnetos have their own serial number) There are also instances where the owners have borrowed parts to comply with an AD and then removed the part after the anshynual Ercoupes have AD 59-25-05 that calls for an inspection or reinforcement of the rudder ribs On one airplane I saw the logs show the rudders were reinforced and signed off at an annual However an inspection revealed that only one rudder was reinforced There are several reasons that ADs are not always complied with andor the maintenance records are in ershyror In this case it appears the ADd rudshyder had been replaced with one that had never been reinforced

The FAA is cracking down on AD comshypliance This means that the AIs and repshyutable shops are spending more time and more of your money researching to insure all ADs are complied I know of instances where shops repeat a 5 year inspection (Piper strut punch test) each year to proshytect themselves - this over compliance only cost you money Some of the research can be done by you as the owneroperator as we discussed in last months article This can save you a lot of time and money at the time of your next annual and may even prevent a violation Last month we discussed the check of the airplane to be sure that all the items installed are in comshypliance with the specs or other data This would also be a good time to check out AD compliance You can check the comshypliance of the ADs as well as the method of compliance You can also do a lot of the work to get your airplane in complishyance under the supervision of an AampP but you cannot sign off the ADs

Use your list of the make model and serial number of the airplane engine acshycessories and appliances Then obtain a

list of all ADs for all of the items on the list They are available at most FBOs authorized inspectors or other sources Get a copy if possible of all the applicashyble ADs for your airplane This will tell you what is required serial numbers afshyfected and all information needed for compliance

The FAA has suggested a format but does not mandate this however it is a comprehensive format and works well An example of such a record is at the top of this page

Look at the particular part that the AD pertains to and determine if the AD has been complied with and the method of compliance Note this in your complishyance record If the AD is a periodic inshyspection AD note the total time tach time and time that the next inspection is due Also note the Service Bulletin that this AD pertains to if applicable Someshytimes a service bulletin will precede an AD and the AD is complied with during the compliance with a service bulletin You can fill out the chart except the aushythorized signature and number

AD compliance or inspections do not always coincide with the annual or have the recurring inspection come due beshytween annuals You as the owneroperashytor and pilot-in-command are responsishyble to ascertain that the aircraft is in airworthy condition prior to flight An airplane that does not have all ADs comshyplied with is not an airworthy airplane

If you have a good rapport with the mechanic or AI you may be allowed to do a large amount of this research helping cut the costs of your maintenance and even improve the airplane Get into comshypliance and enjoy safe and happy flying

Next month well discuss carbureshytor ice and ways to prevent its ocshycurrence

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

Aircraft Antennas for the Pilot PART II

by Bill Butters Technical Coordinator Advanced Aircraft Electronics Inc

Antenna Types

Let s take a look at the types of anshytennas that you might select for installashytion in an airframe There are two basic types that are practical so well highlight these The first type is called the quarshyter-wave ground plane and the second is the half-wave dipole Each has features which lend themselves to certain types of installations

becomes progressively less All the radio energy has to go somewhere so when usshying the smaller ground plane the energy is reflected back to the radio (remember impedance matching) In receive it reshyflects back into free space and is lost

In a composite fabric or wood airshycraft it becomes apparent that the stanshydard quarter wave antenna won t work well because there isnt much metal to mount the antenna We solve this probshy

and Wave

FIGURE 1

Aircraft skin o shy -shy__~O--shy

I Imaginary Antenna

Ground Plane Antenna

This is the traditional antenna that mounts outside on our aluminum airshyframes It requires a metal base to mount on and to work against The ilshylustration (Figure 1) shows that as the RF energy interacts with the antenna elshyement small amounts of skin currents flow in the ground plane What is often ignored is that not just the local area unshyder the ante nna works as th e ground plane - the total ai rfram e responds to these ground plane currents

If the gro und plane is made progresshysive ly sma lle r the radiation capability

6 OCTOBER 1994

lem with th e in stallation of a ground plane which is about one antenna length in radius

Sometimes wh e n we try to use an add-on ground plane we arent satisfied with the results This could be because the ground plane is too small to fully alshylow the phantom or mirror image anshyte nna currents to deve lop Sometimes the electrical connection between the rashydio and the ground plane is poor and is restricting th e currents Even in all me tal airframes corrosion at the anshytenna mount can cause similar problems Simply put this style of antenna is sensishytive to ground plane mounting

Aircraft skin Inside the Airframe

FIGURE 2

Antenna

Dipole Antenna

The drawing (Figure 2) shows the same radiation but notice that there isn t a ground plane with its phantom quarshyter-wave image The antenn a itself is complete and operates as a stand alone system not requiring the additional metal This feat ure makes the dipole an ideal candidate for any structure without a metal skin

Why not build our own antenna It seems like a simple matter to route our coax feed to some conve nie nt spot and connect to two le ngths of meta l that have been cut to the quarter-wave length Some people do this but recall the discussion about SWR and impedshyance match The impedance of such an antenna does not match the 50 ohm rashydio system When the coax connection is made at the ante nn a the impedance mismatch is large and the resultant SWR value goes up while ante nna efficie ncy goes down To overcome the poor pershyform ance the small rings of ferrite are install ed around the coax and the anshytenna seems to work better (Figure 3)

But there is a better way to use a dishypole The two elements can be designed

in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

FIGURE 3 II

I Reflected Signal

Signal Out I

Patterns

Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

FIGURE 4

tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

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JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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You may notice as you peruse the pages of this month s VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE that there is some new artwork gracing the pages of Mystery Plane Welshycome New Members and the Fly-In Calshyendar Long time EAA and member Jim Newman who has volunteered his sershyvices in the past for EAA has graciously consented to work up some drawings for us when we could use his deft pen and ink touch His first efforts were directed towards sprucing up the heads of a few of our columns and next month youll see the fruits of his technical illustration labors Many readers may recall the inshytricate drawing of the Laird Super Solushytion for EAAs book on the creation of the Solution replica - it too was the creshyation of this talented man Jim s vocashytion is as an artist and he excels at techshynical illustration a form of industrial art Jim has been working at for most of his long career If you think your company could use someone as talented as Jim for your project you can contact him in Hoshybart IN at 219942-2571 His volunteer efforts for the Division are appreciated

HEllO COURIER TYPE CERTIFICATE SOLD

Helio Enterprises Inc of 17644 SE 293rd Place Kent W A 98042 has purshychased the type certificate drawings enshygineering data and production tooling for the complete line of Helio aircraft Helio is currently putting a plan together to support the approximately 250 Courishyers still flying They also plan on investishy

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Barnstormer Aviation who has alshyready obtained STC approval for altershynator installations in the Aircoupe and Cessna 12011401140A has announced the availability of an STC for installation of a 60 amp alternator on the Cessna 170170A170B For more information contact Fred Lagno at Barnstormers Aviation 911 Sportsman Neck Rd Queenstown MD 21658 or call 410827shy7896

KEEP LORAN GOING

The US Coast Guard is considering the termination of the Loran C system which would leave a large number of users holding the bag with useless equipshyment Aviation marine and and many other users find th e Loran C system to be perfectly adequate for their needs The Wild Goose Association collected over 4500 signatures on a petition supshyporting the Loran C system at EAA OSHKOSH 94 EAA while certainly recognizing that GPS will be the navigashytion system of the future supports the continued maintenance of the Loran C system You can address your comments about Loran C to Mr Frank Kruesi Asshysistant Secretary for Transportation polshyicy US Department of Transportation 400 7th Street SW Washington DC 20590

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BETTY SKELTONS PITTS

Curators and volunteers at the Smithshysonian s National Air and Space Museum are working to prepare Betty Skeltons Pitts Special for display The Pitts dubbed Little Stinker was the airplane used by Betty to win the National Aeroshybatic Championships in 1948 49 and 1950 It is the second Pitts Special built by Curtiss Pitts in 1946 and sold originally to Jess Bristow who had Curtiss friend Phil Quigley fly the biplane in airshows during 1947 When bought by Betty in 1948 she immediately started to use it for her own airshow and competition work and in doing so she set the world of aeroshybatics on its ear The small biplane would dominate the world aerobatic scene for many years to follow

When first built by Curtiss the second Pitts had a Continental C-85-8F5 engine Later she had a Continental C-90-8FJ fuel injected engine installed (the same engine as in an Aeronca L-16) swinging a McCauley IB90CM7148 prop When donated to the NASM both the engine and prop were missing If you can supply either a C90-8F or 8FJ (the NASM has the correct fuel injection system so the engine does not have to come with one) andor a 1B90 McCauley prop please contact either Rick Leyes Aero Propulshysion curator or Dorothy Cochrane the NASMs General Aviation curator at 202357-2515 Neither the engine or the prop needs to be in airworthy condition although Id imagine they would need the prop to be relatively undamaged You can write to them at National Air and Space Museum MRC 312 Room 3308 Smithsonian Institution Washington DC 20560

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DART NOTE

Dear Editor

The article in the July issue of SPORT A VIA nON about Allen Johnsons Dart was most interesting to me While I was a student at Parks Air College (now part of St Louis University) in 1936-37 and 38 I was given the job of forming new cylinder head baffles for Monocoupe The new ones directed the airflow down toward the rear spark plugs where the thermocouples were located on Lambert engines No doubt this was one of Al Mooneys ideas Also while a student a group of us saw the twin Monocoach at the Monocoupe factory At that time we didnt know who Al Mooney was

After graduating from Parks in 1938 Oliver Parks got me a job with Dart Mfg Co in Columbus Ohio They wanted someone who could do sheet metal work There were 12 to 15 of us in the whole factory Al and Art Mooney Bill McMashyhon Charlie Jamieson Karl Repple Bob Hale myself and a few others Charlie Karl Bob and I were all Parks graduates Believe me each Dart was handmade One particular one gave us a real probshylem the bolt holes in the fuselage for the wing spar didn t line up with the holes in the big aluminum boss in the spar After

agonizing for awhile Al Mooney said to put undrilled bosses in the wing and line drill them Of course that worked

My first job was to make the wing root fairings which are about five feet long and full of compound curves Thats when I started to learn a little about movshying sheet metal around I never did get one as good as I wanted

The D windows on Allens Dart were not original but they are a nice adshydition He surely did a beautiful job restoring this historic airplane

One open cockpit Dart was suspended from the ceiling of Foster Lanes part of the hangar It had a lop-eared jackass painted on the tail with a halo around its head Wonder what became of it

Al Mooney was a wonderful guy but had a short fuse at times One time Speed Wycoff our part-time salesman and test pilot said the public would like to see certain changes in the Dart Al said To hell with the public We build good airshyplanes The public can take it or leave it

We put a 165 Warner in one special built clipped-wing Dart It also had a peg leg landing gear We built the special wings in one week It still wasnt as fast as the clipped-wing Monocoupe we found out one day during the race at Columbus We also built a pair of wings for the Dart

that had the retractable landing gear like the Bellanca I don t think they were ever used someone correct me if Im wrong I left the company about that time in 1940 but not before we built and tested the new Culver Cadet I made the first nose cowl for the Cadet by pounding two pieces of 040 2S0 aluminum into a female form then welded the two halves together and then I pounded some more I also made gear leg fairings that looked good and almost enclosed the gear when retracted Didnt help the speed a bit so we didnt use them

The Cadet had some bad spins at aft CG On one test flight the pilot had to deploy the spin chute to stop the spin It stopped the spin ok but tore off part of the plane and came floating down over a prison Caused quite a little excitement On another flight or maybe the same one the vertical fin spar broke right at the base but stayed in place The pilot landed safely and shut it down way out on the field We towed it in so the public wouldn t see what happened

The reason I quit Culver in 1940 was to increase my income I was being paid $7500 per month I went to work in Tuscaloosa Alabama helping maintain a fleet of Stearmans and CPT planes In the meantime Culver got the contract for the PQ8s and moved to Wichita In early 1941 they called me and offered me a fabulous salary of $20000 per month to come to Wichita as foreman of the sheet metal department I made the move There were about 30 sheet metal workers in that department I soon found out what my job was The company had a large number of PQ8s completed but the military wouldnt buy them because no two metal parts would interchange Fishynally got it all straightened out After that we built thousands of planes At one time we were completing seven planes a day

I feel that I was fortunate to have been able to work with Al and Art Mooney and Bill McMahon

Allen take good care of that Dart

Sincerely

Bill Riedesel EAA 240009 Mentone AL 35984

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ADS

YOU Airworthiness Directives these words tend to send a chill up the spine of some airplane owners and indeed some cringe at the thought ADs can be costly It is my opinion that the manufacturer should pick up the tab on the ADs of the newer airplanes They have design flaws but the companies seem to be immune to

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by Bill Claxon

the cost of resolving their mistakes By and large the owner must pick up the tab for these bills and some of them can run into thousands of dollars The older airshyplanes with hundreds even thousands of hours and decades of existence and use are another story

Even if the manufacturer were to be

held liable many are no longer in exisshytence It is sad to see so many of the old companies go by the wayside but the realshyities of economics sometimes dictate their demise Normally most of these older aircraft have had most if not all of their outstanding ADs complied with but some do slip through the cracks and occasionshyally there are some ADs coming down the pike as age catches up with them

It is interesting to note that on many of these older airplanes most of the ADs were small and inexpensive compared to the notes issued on the modern airplanes I have wondered about this and found a part of the answer High Performance Some of this is a result of the pursuit of ever higher performance envelopes To accomplish this the manufacturers have had to make compromises One of these is a reduction in weight which has resulted in a reduction in strength in some areas As pilots push the airplane ever closer and closer to the edge of the operating enshyvelope (and sometimes beyond) we are stressing the airplane But these operatshying envelopes are the desires of the potenshytial customer so the manufacturer tries to oblige AD notes are one of the results from these fulfilled desires and are being paid for in part by increased and expenshysive ADs A clear example is the conshystant-speed propellers used on many modshyern general aviation aircraft If you look at the older Hamilton Standard props on the more experienced aircraft you will be hard pressed to find AD notes But look at the modern props and you will see an abundance of expensive AD notes Why The manufacturers are calling for lighter weight props to help enhance the performance of their new aircraft These lighter props are blessed with lower TBOs and more bulletins Just a part of the cost of high performance

Most of these newer aircraft have a fairly good set of maintenance records when compared to some of our antiques and classics This a function in part of time in service and methods of mainteshynance record keeping Many of these airshyplanes go back decades and some of the records have been lost or destroyed inshycluding the records of AD compliance Are the ADs really complied with When How What do the maintenance records say Do they say it all Lets take a look

Part 393 of AFR states No person will operate a product to which an Airworthiness directive applies except in accordance with the requirements of that airworthiness directive

Subpart B - Airworthiness Directives

3911 Applicability This subpart identifies those products in which the Administrator has found an unshy

AD NOTES COMPLIANCE RECORD

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safe condition as described in amp391 and as appropriate prescribes inspections and limitations if any under which those prodshyucts may continue to be operated

135439 Maintenance recording reshyquirements - Paragraph 2 (v) The current status of applicable airworthishyness directives including the date and methods and if the airworthiness directives involves recurring action the time and date when the next action is required

Most maintenance records are not pershymanent by regulation Those that are not are items such as inspections These records may be discarded when supershyseded or after a given period of time ADs are not in this category These regushylations are saying that ADs are mandatory and that the compliance data is a mandashytory part of permanent records of the airshyplane usually the log books

Some ADs apply only to the engine propeller accessory or appliance In the years of operation and maintenance these items may have been changed out for new or used components The replacement may not have had the AD complied with yet the airplane maintenance records will show the AD as complied Years ago the logs would state All ADs CW at the periodic (annual) inspection but not tell the date or method of compliance This has been carried forward and inadvershytently the maintenance records are in ershyror Occasionally you will find an AD logged as complied with when it was not I know of instances where the owner or maintenance personnel has undone compliance by changing out parts These discrepancies show up often when the airshyplane has been out of service for a number of years and cannibalized for parts When those parts have been used on another airshyplane their maintenance history may not

go with them particularly if the part does not have its own serial number (composhynents such as carburetors and magnetos have their own serial number) There are also instances where the owners have borrowed parts to comply with an AD and then removed the part after the anshynual Ercoupes have AD 59-25-05 that calls for an inspection or reinforcement of the rudder ribs On one airplane I saw the logs show the rudders were reinforced and signed off at an annual However an inspection revealed that only one rudder was reinforced There are several reasons that ADs are not always complied with andor the maintenance records are in ershyror In this case it appears the ADd rudshyder had been replaced with one that had never been reinforced

The FAA is cracking down on AD comshypliance This means that the AIs and repshyutable shops are spending more time and more of your money researching to insure all ADs are complied I know of instances where shops repeat a 5 year inspection (Piper strut punch test) each year to proshytect themselves - this over compliance only cost you money Some of the research can be done by you as the owneroperator as we discussed in last months article This can save you a lot of time and money at the time of your next annual and may even prevent a violation Last month we discussed the check of the airplane to be sure that all the items installed are in comshypliance with the specs or other data This would also be a good time to check out AD compliance You can check the comshypliance of the ADs as well as the method of compliance You can also do a lot of the work to get your airplane in complishyance under the supervision of an AampP but you cannot sign off the ADs

Use your list of the make model and serial number of the airplane engine acshycessories and appliances Then obtain a

list of all ADs for all of the items on the list They are available at most FBOs authorized inspectors or other sources Get a copy if possible of all the applicashyble ADs for your airplane This will tell you what is required serial numbers afshyfected and all information needed for compliance

The FAA has suggested a format but does not mandate this however it is a comprehensive format and works well An example of such a record is at the top of this page

Look at the particular part that the AD pertains to and determine if the AD has been complied with and the method of compliance Note this in your complishyance record If the AD is a periodic inshyspection AD note the total time tach time and time that the next inspection is due Also note the Service Bulletin that this AD pertains to if applicable Someshytimes a service bulletin will precede an AD and the AD is complied with during the compliance with a service bulletin You can fill out the chart except the aushythorized signature and number

AD compliance or inspections do not always coincide with the annual or have the recurring inspection come due beshytween annuals You as the owneroperashytor and pilot-in-command are responsishyble to ascertain that the aircraft is in airworthy condition prior to flight An airplane that does not have all ADs comshyplied with is not an airworthy airplane

If you have a good rapport with the mechanic or AI you may be allowed to do a large amount of this research helping cut the costs of your maintenance and even improve the airplane Get into comshypliance and enjoy safe and happy flying

Next month well discuss carbureshytor ice and ways to prevent its ocshycurrence

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Aircraft Antennas for the Pilot PART II

by Bill Butters Technical Coordinator Advanced Aircraft Electronics Inc

Antenna Types

Let s take a look at the types of anshytennas that you might select for installashytion in an airframe There are two basic types that are practical so well highlight these The first type is called the quarshyter-wave ground plane and the second is the half-wave dipole Each has features which lend themselves to certain types of installations

becomes progressively less All the radio energy has to go somewhere so when usshying the smaller ground plane the energy is reflected back to the radio (remember impedance matching) In receive it reshyflects back into free space and is lost

In a composite fabric or wood airshycraft it becomes apparent that the stanshydard quarter wave antenna won t work well because there isnt much metal to mount the antenna We solve this probshy

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This is the traditional antenna that mounts outside on our aluminum airshyframes It requires a metal base to mount on and to work against The ilshylustration (Figure 1) shows that as the RF energy interacts with the antenna elshyement small amounts of skin currents flow in the ground plane What is often ignored is that not just the local area unshyder the ante nna works as th e ground plane - the total ai rfram e responds to these ground plane currents

If the gro und plane is made progresshysive ly sma lle r the radiation capability

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lem with th e in stallation of a ground plane which is about one antenna length in radius

Sometimes wh e n we try to use an add-on ground plane we arent satisfied with the results This could be because the ground plane is too small to fully alshylow the phantom or mirror image anshyte nna currents to deve lop Sometimes the electrical connection between the rashydio and the ground plane is poor and is restricting th e currents Even in all me tal airframes corrosion at the anshytenna mount can cause similar problems Simply put this style of antenna is sensishytive to ground plane mounting

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The drawing (Figure 2) shows the same radiation but notice that there isn t a ground plane with its phantom quarshyter-wave image The antenn a itself is complete and operates as a stand alone system not requiring the additional metal This feat ure makes the dipole an ideal candidate for any structure without a metal skin

Why not build our own antenna It seems like a simple matter to route our coax feed to some conve nie nt spot and connect to two le ngths of meta l that have been cut to the quarter-wave length Some people do this but recall the discussion about SWR and impedshyance match The impedance of such an antenna does not match the 50 ohm rashydio system When the coax connection is made at the ante nn a the impedance mismatch is large and the resultant SWR value goes up while ante nna efficie ncy goes down To overcome the poor pershyform ance the small rings of ferrite are install ed around the coax and the anshytenna seems to work better (Figure 3)

But there is a better way to use a dishypole The two elements can be designed

in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

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Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

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tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Left) The Silver Age Runner-up is this pretty Bird Model C biplane owned and flown by John Woodford of MadishysonWI

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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Classicsshy(Above left) Young John Leupp of South Bend IN came to Oshkosh in his dads Cessna 140 He spent a little time perched up on the fuselage to watch the afternoon airshow

(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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- by Norm Petersen

AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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Gary Underland (left) chief mechanic f o r R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota enshyjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the EAA Seaplane Base

the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada and his richly deserved Best Fabric Seaplane award

able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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The article in the July issue of SPORT A VIA nON about Allen Johnsons Dart was most interesting to me While I was a student at Parks Air College (now part of St Louis University) in 1936-37 and 38 I was given the job of forming new cylinder head baffles for Monocoupe The new ones directed the airflow down toward the rear spark plugs where the thermocouples were located on Lambert engines No doubt this was one of Al Mooneys ideas Also while a student a group of us saw the twin Monocoach at the Monocoupe factory At that time we didnt know who Al Mooney was

After graduating from Parks in 1938 Oliver Parks got me a job with Dart Mfg Co in Columbus Ohio They wanted someone who could do sheet metal work There were 12 to 15 of us in the whole factory Al and Art Mooney Bill McMashyhon Charlie Jamieson Karl Repple Bob Hale myself and a few others Charlie Karl Bob and I were all Parks graduates Believe me each Dart was handmade One particular one gave us a real probshylem the bolt holes in the fuselage for the wing spar didn t line up with the holes in the big aluminum boss in the spar After

agonizing for awhile Al Mooney said to put undrilled bosses in the wing and line drill them Of course that worked

My first job was to make the wing root fairings which are about five feet long and full of compound curves Thats when I started to learn a little about movshying sheet metal around I never did get one as good as I wanted

The D windows on Allens Dart were not original but they are a nice adshydition He surely did a beautiful job restoring this historic airplane

One open cockpit Dart was suspended from the ceiling of Foster Lanes part of the hangar It had a lop-eared jackass painted on the tail with a halo around its head Wonder what became of it

Al Mooney was a wonderful guy but had a short fuse at times One time Speed Wycoff our part-time salesman and test pilot said the public would like to see certain changes in the Dart Al said To hell with the public We build good airshyplanes The public can take it or leave it

We put a 165 Warner in one special built clipped-wing Dart It also had a peg leg landing gear We built the special wings in one week It still wasnt as fast as the clipped-wing Monocoupe we found out one day during the race at Columbus We also built a pair of wings for the Dart

that had the retractable landing gear like the Bellanca I don t think they were ever used someone correct me if Im wrong I left the company about that time in 1940 but not before we built and tested the new Culver Cadet I made the first nose cowl for the Cadet by pounding two pieces of 040 2S0 aluminum into a female form then welded the two halves together and then I pounded some more I also made gear leg fairings that looked good and almost enclosed the gear when retracted Didnt help the speed a bit so we didnt use them

The Cadet had some bad spins at aft CG On one test flight the pilot had to deploy the spin chute to stop the spin It stopped the spin ok but tore off part of the plane and came floating down over a prison Caused quite a little excitement On another flight or maybe the same one the vertical fin spar broke right at the base but stayed in place The pilot landed safely and shut it down way out on the field We towed it in so the public wouldn t see what happened

The reason I quit Culver in 1940 was to increase my income I was being paid $7500 per month I went to work in Tuscaloosa Alabama helping maintain a fleet of Stearmans and CPT planes In the meantime Culver got the contract for the PQ8s and moved to Wichita In early 1941 they called me and offered me a fabulous salary of $20000 per month to come to Wichita as foreman of the sheet metal department I made the move There were about 30 sheet metal workers in that department I soon found out what my job was The company had a large number of PQ8s completed but the military wouldnt buy them because no two metal parts would interchange Fishynally got it all straightened out After that we built thousands of planes At one time we were completing seven planes a day

I feel that I was fortunate to have been able to work with Al and Art Mooney and Bill McMahon

Allen take good care of that Dart

Sincerely

Bill Riedesel EAA 240009 Mentone AL 35984

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ADS

YOU Airworthiness Directives these words tend to send a chill up the spine of some airplane owners and indeed some cringe at the thought ADs can be costly It is my opinion that the manufacturer should pick up the tab on the ADs of the newer airplanes They have design flaws but the companies seem to be immune to

4 OCTOBER 1994

by Bill Claxon

the cost of resolving their mistakes By and large the owner must pick up the tab for these bills and some of them can run into thousands of dollars The older airshyplanes with hundreds even thousands of hours and decades of existence and use are another story

Even if the manufacturer were to be

held liable many are no longer in exisshytence It is sad to see so many of the old companies go by the wayside but the realshyities of economics sometimes dictate their demise Normally most of these older aircraft have had most if not all of their outstanding ADs complied with but some do slip through the cracks and occasionshyally there are some ADs coming down the pike as age catches up with them

It is interesting to note that on many of these older airplanes most of the ADs were small and inexpensive compared to the notes issued on the modern airplanes I have wondered about this and found a part of the answer High Performance Some of this is a result of the pursuit of ever higher performance envelopes To accomplish this the manufacturers have had to make compromises One of these is a reduction in weight which has resulted in a reduction in strength in some areas As pilots push the airplane ever closer and closer to the edge of the operating enshyvelope (and sometimes beyond) we are stressing the airplane But these operatshying envelopes are the desires of the potenshytial customer so the manufacturer tries to oblige AD notes are one of the results from these fulfilled desires and are being paid for in part by increased and expenshysive ADs A clear example is the conshystant-speed propellers used on many modshyern general aviation aircraft If you look at the older Hamilton Standard props on the more experienced aircraft you will be hard pressed to find AD notes But look at the modern props and you will see an abundance of expensive AD notes Why The manufacturers are calling for lighter weight props to help enhance the performance of their new aircraft These lighter props are blessed with lower TBOs and more bulletins Just a part of the cost of high performance

Most of these newer aircraft have a fairly good set of maintenance records when compared to some of our antiques and classics This a function in part of time in service and methods of mainteshynance record keeping Many of these airshyplanes go back decades and some of the records have been lost or destroyed inshycluding the records of AD compliance Are the ADs really complied with When How What do the maintenance records say Do they say it all Lets take a look

Part 393 of AFR states No person will operate a product to which an Airworthiness directive applies except in accordance with the requirements of that airworthiness directive

Subpart B - Airworthiness Directives

3911 Applicability This subpart identifies those products in which the Administrator has found an unshy

AD NOTES COMPLIANCE RECORD

Page _1_ of _1_ Date 23 Mar 86

Registration No N94017

AlC Certification Date 9-46

MakelModel ErcQupe 415C

Engine Model Cont C-75-12 SIN 1579-6-12

AD Rev Applicable Date amp 0 l

Date S8amp Hours Method of Compliance ltD-3middot Subject Comp ltD

59-25-05 X Rudder Rib 105 270ctV3 Inepection 856

69-02-03 X Rudder Belcrank IOMar69 Modified X 63 903 Belcrank

86-22-08 X Fuel Line 12Nov86 Imtaled X Nipple24A 1189 AN911-02 Nipple

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SIN 1430

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NIA jim Medtmuc AampP $ampI

NIA jim Medtmuc AampP $ampI

safe condition as described in amp391 and as appropriate prescribes inspections and limitations if any under which those prodshyucts may continue to be operated

135439 Maintenance recording reshyquirements - Paragraph 2 (v) The current status of applicable airworthishyness directives including the date and methods and if the airworthiness directives involves recurring action the time and date when the next action is required

Most maintenance records are not pershymanent by regulation Those that are not are items such as inspections These records may be discarded when supershyseded or after a given period of time ADs are not in this category These regushylations are saying that ADs are mandatory and that the compliance data is a mandashytory part of permanent records of the airshyplane usually the log books

Some ADs apply only to the engine propeller accessory or appliance In the years of operation and maintenance these items may have been changed out for new or used components The replacement may not have had the AD complied with yet the airplane maintenance records will show the AD as complied Years ago the logs would state All ADs CW at the periodic (annual) inspection but not tell the date or method of compliance This has been carried forward and inadvershytently the maintenance records are in ershyror Occasionally you will find an AD logged as complied with when it was not I know of instances where the owner or maintenance personnel has undone compliance by changing out parts These discrepancies show up often when the airshyplane has been out of service for a number of years and cannibalized for parts When those parts have been used on another airshyplane their maintenance history may not

go with them particularly if the part does not have its own serial number (composhynents such as carburetors and magnetos have their own serial number) There are also instances where the owners have borrowed parts to comply with an AD and then removed the part after the anshynual Ercoupes have AD 59-25-05 that calls for an inspection or reinforcement of the rudder ribs On one airplane I saw the logs show the rudders were reinforced and signed off at an annual However an inspection revealed that only one rudder was reinforced There are several reasons that ADs are not always complied with andor the maintenance records are in ershyror In this case it appears the ADd rudshyder had been replaced with one that had never been reinforced

The FAA is cracking down on AD comshypliance This means that the AIs and repshyutable shops are spending more time and more of your money researching to insure all ADs are complied I know of instances where shops repeat a 5 year inspection (Piper strut punch test) each year to proshytect themselves - this over compliance only cost you money Some of the research can be done by you as the owneroperator as we discussed in last months article This can save you a lot of time and money at the time of your next annual and may even prevent a violation Last month we discussed the check of the airplane to be sure that all the items installed are in comshypliance with the specs or other data This would also be a good time to check out AD compliance You can check the comshypliance of the ADs as well as the method of compliance You can also do a lot of the work to get your airplane in complishyance under the supervision of an AampP but you cannot sign off the ADs

Use your list of the make model and serial number of the airplane engine acshycessories and appliances Then obtain a

list of all ADs for all of the items on the list They are available at most FBOs authorized inspectors or other sources Get a copy if possible of all the applicashyble ADs for your airplane This will tell you what is required serial numbers afshyfected and all information needed for compliance

The FAA has suggested a format but does not mandate this however it is a comprehensive format and works well An example of such a record is at the top of this page

Look at the particular part that the AD pertains to and determine if the AD has been complied with and the method of compliance Note this in your complishyance record If the AD is a periodic inshyspection AD note the total time tach time and time that the next inspection is due Also note the Service Bulletin that this AD pertains to if applicable Someshytimes a service bulletin will precede an AD and the AD is complied with during the compliance with a service bulletin You can fill out the chart except the aushythorized signature and number

AD compliance or inspections do not always coincide with the annual or have the recurring inspection come due beshytween annuals You as the owneroperashytor and pilot-in-command are responsishyble to ascertain that the aircraft is in airworthy condition prior to flight An airplane that does not have all ADs comshyplied with is not an airworthy airplane

If you have a good rapport with the mechanic or AI you may be allowed to do a large amount of this research helping cut the costs of your maintenance and even improve the airplane Get into comshypliance and enjoy safe and happy flying

Next month well discuss carbureshytor ice and ways to prevent its ocshycurrence

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

Aircraft Antennas for the Pilot PART II

by Bill Butters Technical Coordinator Advanced Aircraft Electronics Inc

Antenna Types

Let s take a look at the types of anshytennas that you might select for installashytion in an airframe There are two basic types that are practical so well highlight these The first type is called the quarshyter-wave ground plane and the second is the half-wave dipole Each has features which lend themselves to certain types of installations

becomes progressively less All the radio energy has to go somewhere so when usshying the smaller ground plane the energy is reflected back to the radio (remember impedance matching) In receive it reshyflects back into free space and is lost

In a composite fabric or wood airshycraft it becomes apparent that the stanshydard quarter wave antenna won t work well because there isnt much metal to mount the antenna We solve this probshy

and Wave

FIGURE 1

Aircraft skin o shy -shy__~O--shy

I Imaginary Antenna

Ground Plane Antenna

This is the traditional antenna that mounts outside on our aluminum airshyframes It requires a metal base to mount on and to work against The ilshylustration (Figure 1) shows that as the RF energy interacts with the antenna elshyement small amounts of skin currents flow in the ground plane What is often ignored is that not just the local area unshyder the ante nna works as th e ground plane - the total ai rfram e responds to these ground plane currents

If the gro und plane is made progresshysive ly sma lle r the radiation capability

6 OCTOBER 1994

lem with th e in stallation of a ground plane which is about one antenna length in radius

Sometimes wh e n we try to use an add-on ground plane we arent satisfied with the results This could be because the ground plane is too small to fully alshylow the phantom or mirror image anshyte nna currents to deve lop Sometimes the electrical connection between the rashydio and the ground plane is poor and is restricting th e currents Even in all me tal airframes corrosion at the anshytenna mount can cause similar problems Simply put this style of antenna is sensishytive to ground plane mounting

Aircraft skin Inside the Airframe

FIGURE 2

Antenna

Dipole Antenna

The drawing (Figure 2) shows the same radiation but notice that there isn t a ground plane with its phantom quarshyter-wave image The antenn a itself is complete and operates as a stand alone system not requiring the additional metal This feat ure makes the dipole an ideal candidate for any structure without a metal skin

Why not build our own antenna It seems like a simple matter to route our coax feed to some conve nie nt spot and connect to two le ngths of meta l that have been cut to the quarter-wave length Some people do this but recall the discussion about SWR and impedshyance match The impedance of such an antenna does not match the 50 ohm rashydio system When the coax connection is made at the ante nn a the impedance mismatch is large and the resultant SWR value goes up while ante nna efficie ncy goes down To overcome the poor pershyform ance the small rings of ferrite are install ed around the coax and the anshytenna seems to work better (Figure 3)

But there is a better way to use a dishypole The two elements can be designed

in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

FIGURE 3 II

I Reflected Signal

Signal Out I

Patterns

Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

FIGURE 4

tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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YOU Airworthiness Directives these words tend to send a chill up the spine of some airplane owners and indeed some cringe at the thought ADs can be costly It is my opinion that the manufacturer should pick up the tab on the ADs of the newer airplanes They have design flaws but the companies seem to be immune to

4 OCTOBER 1994

by Bill Claxon

the cost of resolving their mistakes By and large the owner must pick up the tab for these bills and some of them can run into thousands of dollars The older airshyplanes with hundreds even thousands of hours and decades of existence and use are another story

Even if the manufacturer were to be

held liable many are no longer in exisshytence It is sad to see so many of the old companies go by the wayside but the realshyities of economics sometimes dictate their demise Normally most of these older aircraft have had most if not all of their outstanding ADs complied with but some do slip through the cracks and occasionshyally there are some ADs coming down the pike as age catches up with them

It is interesting to note that on many of these older airplanes most of the ADs were small and inexpensive compared to the notes issued on the modern airplanes I have wondered about this and found a part of the answer High Performance Some of this is a result of the pursuit of ever higher performance envelopes To accomplish this the manufacturers have had to make compromises One of these is a reduction in weight which has resulted in a reduction in strength in some areas As pilots push the airplane ever closer and closer to the edge of the operating enshyvelope (and sometimes beyond) we are stressing the airplane But these operatshying envelopes are the desires of the potenshytial customer so the manufacturer tries to oblige AD notes are one of the results from these fulfilled desires and are being paid for in part by increased and expenshysive ADs A clear example is the conshystant-speed propellers used on many modshyern general aviation aircraft If you look at the older Hamilton Standard props on the more experienced aircraft you will be hard pressed to find AD notes But look at the modern props and you will see an abundance of expensive AD notes Why The manufacturers are calling for lighter weight props to help enhance the performance of their new aircraft These lighter props are blessed with lower TBOs and more bulletins Just a part of the cost of high performance

Most of these newer aircraft have a fairly good set of maintenance records when compared to some of our antiques and classics This a function in part of time in service and methods of mainteshynance record keeping Many of these airshyplanes go back decades and some of the records have been lost or destroyed inshycluding the records of AD compliance Are the ADs really complied with When How What do the maintenance records say Do they say it all Lets take a look

Part 393 of AFR states No person will operate a product to which an Airworthiness directive applies except in accordance with the requirements of that airworthiness directive

Subpart B - Airworthiness Directives

3911 Applicability This subpart identifies those products in which the Administrator has found an unshy

AD NOTES COMPLIANCE RECORD

Page _1_ of _1_ Date 23 Mar 86

Registration No N94017

AlC Certification Date 9-46

MakelModel ErcQupe 415C

Engine Model Cont C-75-12 SIN 1579-6-12

AD Rev Applicable Date amp 0 l

Date S8amp Hours Method of Compliance ltD-3middot Subject Comp ltD

59-25-05 X Rudder Rib 105 270ctV3 Inepection 856

69-02-03 X Rudder Belcrank IOMar69 Modified X 63 903 Belcrank

86-22-08 X Fuel Line 12Nov86 Imtaled X Nipple24A 1189 AN911-02 Nipple

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safe condition as described in amp391 and as appropriate prescribes inspections and limitations if any under which those prodshyucts may continue to be operated

135439 Maintenance recording reshyquirements - Paragraph 2 (v) The current status of applicable airworthishyness directives including the date and methods and if the airworthiness directives involves recurring action the time and date when the next action is required

Most maintenance records are not pershymanent by regulation Those that are not are items such as inspections These records may be discarded when supershyseded or after a given period of time ADs are not in this category These regushylations are saying that ADs are mandatory and that the compliance data is a mandashytory part of permanent records of the airshyplane usually the log books

Some ADs apply only to the engine propeller accessory or appliance In the years of operation and maintenance these items may have been changed out for new or used components The replacement may not have had the AD complied with yet the airplane maintenance records will show the AD as complied Years ago the logs would state All ADs CW at the periodic (annual) inspection but not tell the date or method of compliance This has been carried forward and inadvershytently the maintenance records are in ershyror Occasionally you will find an AD logged as complied with when it was not I know of instances where the owner or maintenance personnel has undone compliance by changing out parts These discrepancies show up often when the airshyplane has been out of service for a number of years and cannibalized for parts When those parts have been used on another airshyplane their maintenance history may not

go with them particularly if the part does not have its own serial number (composhynents such as carburetors and magnetos have their own serial number) There are also instances where the owners have borrowed parts to comply with an AD and then removed the part after the anshynual Ercoupes have AD 59-25-05 that calls for an inspection or reinforcement of the rudder ribs On one airplane I saw the logs show the rudders were reinforced and signed off at an annual However an inspection revealed that only one rudder was reinforced There are several reasons that ADs are not always complied with andor the maintenance records are in ershyror In this case it appears the ADd rudshyder had been replaced with one that had never been reinforced

The FAA is cracking down on AD comshypliance This means that the AIs and repshyutable shops are spending more time and more of your money researching to insure all ADs are complied I know of instances where shops repeat a 5 year inspection (Piper strut punch test) each year to proshytect themselves - this over compliance only cost you money Some of the research can be done by you as the owneroperator as we discussed in last months article This can save you a lot of time and money at the time of your next annual and may even prevent a violation Last month we discussed the check of the airplane to be sure that all the items installed are in comshypliance with the specs or other data This would also be a good time to check out AD compliance You can check the comshypliance of the ADs as well as the method of compliance You can also do a lot of the work to get your airplane in complishyance under the supervision of an AampP but you cannot sign off the ADs

Use your list of the make model and serial number of the airplane engine acshycessories and appliances Then obtain a

list of all ADs for all of the items on the list They are available at most FBOs authorized inspectors or other sources Get a copy if possible of all the applicashyble ADs for your airplane This will tell you what is required serial numbers afshyfected and all information needed for compliance

The FAA has suggested a format but does not mandate this however it is a comprehensive format and works well An example of such a record is at the top of this page

Look at the particular part that the AD pertains to and determine if the AD has been complied with and the method of compliance Note this in your complishyance record If the AD is a periodic inshyspection AD note the total time tach time and time that the next inspection is due Also note the Service Bulletin that this AD pertains to if applicable Someshytimes a service bulletin will precede an AD and the AD is complied with during the compliance with a service bulletin You can fill out the chart except the aushythorized signature and number

AD compliance or inspections do not always coincide with the annual or have the recurring inspection come due beshytween annuals You as the owneroperashytor and pilot-in-command are responsishyble to ascertain that the aircraft is in airworthy condition prior to flight An airplane that does not have all ADs comshyplied with is not an airworthy airplane

If you have a good rapport with the mechanic or AI you may be allowed to do a large amount of this research helping cut the costs of your maintenance and even improve the airplane Get into comshypliance and enjoy safe and happy flying

Next month well discuss carbureshytor ice and ways to prevent its ocshycurrence

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Aircraft Antennas for the Pilot PART II

by Bill Butters Technical Coordinator Advanced Aircraft Electronics Inc

Antenna Types

Let s take a look at the types of anshytennas that you might select for installashytion in an airframe There are two basic types that are practical so well highlight these The first type is called the quarshyter-wave ground plane and the second is the half-wave dipole Each has features which lend themselves to certain types of installations

becomes progressively less All the radio energy has to go somewhere so when usshying the smaller ground plane the energy is reflected back to the radio (remember impedance matching) In receive it reshyflects back into free space and is lost

In a composite fabric or wood airshycraft it becomes apparent that the stanshydard quarter wave antenna won t work well because there isnt much metal to mount the antenna We solve this probshy

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This is the traditional antenna that mounts outside on our aluminum airshyframes It requires a metal base to mount on and to work against The ilshylustration (Figure 1) shows that as the RF energy interacts with the antenna elshyement small amounts of skin currents flow in the ground plane What is often ignored is that not just the local area unshyder the ante nna works as th e ground plane - the total ai rfram e responds to these ground plane currents

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lem with th e in stallation of a ground plane which is about one antenna length in radius

Sometimes wh e n we try to use an add-on ground plane we arent satisfied with the results This could be because the ground plane is too small to fully alshylow the phantom or mirror image anshyte nna currents to deve lop Sometimes the electrical connection between the rashydio and the ground plane is poor and is restricting th e currents Even in all me tal airframes corrosion at the anshytenna mount can cause similar problems Simply put this style of antenna is sensishytive to ground plane mounting

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The drawing (Figure 2) shows the same radiation but notice that there isn t a ground plane with its phantom quarshyter-wave image The antenn a itself is complete and operates as a stand alone system not requiring the additional metal This feat ure makes the dipole an ideal candidate for any structure without a metal skin

Why not build our own antenna It seems like a simple matter to route our coax feed to some conve nie nt spot and connect to two le ngths of meta l that have been cut to the quarter-wave length Some people do this but recall the discussion about SWR and impedshyance match The impedance of such an antenna does not match the 50 ohm rashydio system When the coax connection is made at the ante nn a the impedance mismatch is large and the resultant SWR value goes up while ante nna efficie ncy goes down To overcome the poor pershyform ance the small rings of ferrite are install ed around the coax and the anshytenna seems to work better (Figure 3)

But there is a better way to use a dishypole The two elements can be designed

in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

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Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

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tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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- by Norm Petersen

AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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135439 Maintenance recording reshyquirements - Paragraph 2 (v) The current status of applicable airworthishyness directives including the date and methods and if the airworthiness directives involves recurring action the time and date when the next action is required

Most maintenance records are not pershymanent by regulation Those that are not are items such as inspections These records may be discarded when supershyseded or after a given period of time ADs are not in this category These regushylations are saying that ADs are mandatory and that the compliance data is a mandashytory part of permanent records of the airshyplane usually the log books

Some ADs apply only to the engine propeller accessory or appliance In the years of operation and maintenance these items may have been changed out for new or used components The replacement may not have had the AD complied with yet the airplane maintenance records will show the AD as complied Years ago the logs would state All ADs CW at the periodic (annual) inspection but not tell the date or method of compliance This has been carried forward and inadvershytently the maintenance records are in ershyror Occasionally you will find an AD logged as complied with when it was not I know of instances where the owner or maintenance personnel has undone compliance by changing out parts These discrepancies show up often when the airshyplane has been out of service for a number of years and cannibalized for parts When those parts have been used on another airshyplane their maintenance history may not

go with them particularly if the part does not have its own serial number (composhynents such as carburetors and magnetos have their own serial number) There are also instances where the owners have borrowed parts to comply with an AD and then removed the part after the anshynual Ercoupes have AD 59-25-05 that calls for an inspection or reinforcement of the rudder ribs On one airplane I saw the logs show the rudders were reinforced and signed off at an annual However an inspection revealed that only one rudder was reinforced There are several reasons that ADs are not always complied with andor the maintenance records are in ershyror In this case it appears the ADd rudshyder had been replaced with one that had never been reinforced

The FAA is cracking down on AD comshypliance This means that the AIs and repshyutable shops are spending more time and more of your money researching to insure all ADs are complied I know of instances where shops repeat a 5 year inspection (Piper strut punch test) each year to proshytect themselves - this over compliance only cost you money Some of the research can be done by you as the owneroperator as we discussed in last months article This can save you a lot of time and money at the time of your next annual and may even prevent a violation Last month we discussed the check of the airplane to be sure that all the items installed are in comshypliance with the specs or other data This would also be a good time to check out AD compliance You can check the comshypliance of the ADs as well as the method of compliance You can also do a lot of the work to get your airplane in complishyance under the supervision of an AampP but you cannot sign off the ADs

Use your list of the make model and serial number of the airplane engine acshycessories and appliances Then obtain a

list of all ADs for all of the items on the list They are available at most FBOs authorized inspectors or other sources Get a copy if possible of all the applicashyble ADs for your airplane This will tell you what is required serial numbers afshyfected and all information needed for compliance

The FAA has suggested a format but does not mandate this however it is a comprehensive format and works well An example of such a record is at the top of this page

Look at the particular part that the AD pertains to and determine if the AD has been complied with and the method of compliance Note this in your complishyance record If the AD is a periodic inshyspection AD note the total time tach time and time that the next inspection is due Also note the Service Bulletin that this AD pertains to if applicable Someshytimes a service bulletin will precede an AD and the AD is complied with during the compliance with a service bulletin You can fill out the chart except the aushythorized signature and number

AD compliance or inspections do not always coincide with the annual or have the recurring inspection come due beshytween annuals You as the owneroperashytor and pilot-in-command are responsishyble to ascertain that the aircraft is in airworthy condition prior to flight An airplane that does not have all ADs comshyplied with is not an airworthy airplane

If you have a good rapport with the mechanic or AI you may be allowed to do a large amount of this research helping cut the costs of your maintenance and even improve the airplane Get into comshypliance and enjoy safe and happy flying

Next month well discuss carbureshytor ice and ways to prevent its ocshycurrence

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Aircraft Antennas for the Pilot PART II

by Bill Butters Technical Coordinator Advanced Aircraft Electronics Inc

Antenna Types

Let s take a look at the types of anshytennas that you might select for installashytion in an airframe There are two basic types that are practical so well highlight these The first type is called the quarshyter-wave ground plane and the second is the half-wave dipole Each has features which lend themselves to certain types of installations

becomes progressively less All the radio energy has to go somewhere so when usshying the smaller ground plane the energy is reflected back to the radio (remember impedance matching) In receive it reshyflects back into free space and is lost

In a composite fabric or wood airshycraft it becomes apparent that the stanshydard quarter wave antenna won t work well because there isnt much metal to mount the antenna We solve this probshy

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This is the traditional antenna that mounts outside on our aluminum airshyframes It requires a metal base to mount on and to work against The ilshylustration (Figure 1) shows that as the RF energy interacts with the antenna elshyement small amounts of skin currents flow in the ground plane What is often ignored is that not just the local area unshyder the ante nna works as th e ground plane - the total ai rfram e responds to these ground plane currents

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lem with th e in stallation of a ground plane which is about one antenna length in radius

Sometimes wh e n we try to use an add-on ground plane we arent satisfied with the results This could be because the ground plane is too small to fully alshylow the phantom or mirror image anshyte nna currents to deve lop Sometimes the electrical connection between the rashydio and the ground plane is poor and is restricting th e currents Even in all me tal airframes corrosion at the anshytenna mount can cause similar problems Simply put this style of antenna is sensishytive to ground plane mounting

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The drawing (Figure 2) shows the same radiation but notice that there isn t a ground plane with its phantom quarshyter-wave image The antenn a itself is complete and operates as a stand alone system not requiring the additional metal This feat ure makes the dipole an ideal candidate for any structure without a metal skin

Why not build our own antenna It seems like a simple matter to route our coax feed to some conve nie nt spot and connect to two le ngths of meta l that have been cut to the quarter-wave length Some people do this but recall the discussion about SWR and impedshyance match The impedance of such an antenna does not match the 50 ohm rashydio system When the coax connection is made at the ante nn a the impedance mismatch is large and the resultant SWR value goes up while ante nna efficie ncy goes down To overcome the poor pershyform ance the small rings of ferrite are install ed around the coax and the anshytenna seems to work better (Figure 3)

But there is a better way to use a dishypole The two elements can be designed

in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

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Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

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tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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Classicsshy(Above left) Young John Leupp of South Bend IN came to Oshkosh in his dads Cessna 140 He spent a little time perched up on the fuselage to watch the afternoon airshow

(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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- by Norm Petersen

AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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Gary Underland (left) chief mechanic f o r R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota enshyjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the EAA Seaplane Base

the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada and his richly deserved Best Fabric Seaplane award

able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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Heinz Peiers Grumman Goose was picked as the best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

The inhabitants o~ this once-a-yea~ -

- shyand caps with three letters and asmall gold members across the country and blue airplane emblem but their collecshytiDe work is no less magical than the mysti-

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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by Bill Butters Technical Coordinator Advanced Aircraft Electronics Inc

Antenna Types

Let s take a look at the types of anshytennas that you might select for installashytion in an airframe There are two basic types that are practical so well highlight these The first type is called the quarshyter-wave ground plane and the second is the half-wave dipole Each has features which lend themselves to certain types of installations

becomes progressively less All the radio energy has to go somewhere so when usshying the smaller ground plane the energy is reflected back to the radio (remember impedance matching) In receive it reshyflects back into free space and is lost

In a composite fabric or wood airshycraft it becomes apparent that the stanshydard quarter wave antenna won t work well because there isnt much metal to mount the antenna We solve this probshy

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This is the traditional antenna that mounts outside on our aluminum airshyframes It requires a metal base to mount on and to work against The ilshylustration (Figure 1) shows that as the RF energy interacts with the antenna elshyement small amounts of skin currents flow in the ground plane What is often ignored is that not just the local area unshyder the ante nna works as th e ground plane - the total ai rfram e responds to these ground plane currents

If the gro und plane is made progresshysive ly sma lle r the radiation capability

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lem with th e in stallation of a ground plane which is about one antenna length in radius

Sometimes wh e n we try to use an add-on ground plane we arent satisfied with the results This could be because the ground plane is too small to fully alshylow the phantom or mirror image anshyte nna currents to deve lop Sometimes the electrical connection between the rashydio and the ground plane is poor and is restricting th e currents Even in all me tal airframes corrosion at the anshytenna mount can cause similar problems Simply put this style of antenna is sensishytive to ground plane mounting

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The drawing (Figure 2) shows the same radiation but notice that there isn t a ground plane with its phantom quarshyter-wave image The antenn a itself is complete and operates as a stand alone system not requiring the additional metal This feat ure makes the dipole an ideal candidate for any structure without a metal skin

Why not build our own antenna It seems like a simple matter to route our coax feed to some conve nie nt spot and connect to two le ngths of meta l that have been cut to the quarter-wave length Some people do this but recall the discussion about SWR and impedshyance match The impedance of such an antenna does not match the 50 ohm rashydio system When the coax connection is made at the ante nn a the impedance mismatch is large and the resultant SWR value goes up while ante nna efficie ncy goes down To overcome the poor pershyform ance the small rings of ferrite are install ed around the coax and the anshytenna seems to work better (Figure 3)

But there is a better way to use a dishypole The two elements can be designed

in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

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Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

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tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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Classicsshy(Above left) Young John Leupp of South Bend IN came to Oshkosh in his dads Cessna 140 He spent a little time perched up on the fuselage to watch the afternoon airshow

(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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- by Norm Petersen

AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

The inhabitants o~ this once-a-yea~ -

- shyand caps with three letters and asmall gold members across the country and blue airplane emblem but their collecshytiDe work is no less magical than the mysti-

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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in a way that combines both the required freq uency tuning and the intrinsic imshypedance for this frequency The anshytennas impedance shouldnt be 50 ohms however because the impedance of the air is closer to 377 ohms and we must maintain the impedance match everyshywhere (even to the free space) to mainshytain antenna efficiency

Antenna people design their radiatshying elements to have the required 377 ohms impedance They combine the electrical properties of the antenna eleshyment with the insulating properties of its nonconducting base

Balun

Introducing the Balun This device is an impedance matching transformer that is connected between the 50 ohm coax lead and the 377 ohm radiating element and thus preserves the impedance match

Now with the antenna matched to the radio and to free space (Figure 4) we are able to mount it anywhere we have airshyframe space to fasten it down In fact the mounting can be done with adhesive duct tape Velcro tie wraps or anything that isnt metal This design now offers possibilities for hot air balloons ultrashylights antiques even under the roof of the home or wooden hangar

Now that we are conversant in the basics of antennas lets take a look at its installation in the airframe Recall that for optimum performance we try to maintain the correct polarity orientation for the type of signal to be transmitted or received

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Get ready for another concept in anshytenna characteristics called radiation patterns In certain applications like radar for example the antenna must radiate and receive with a highly direcshytional beam In our aircraft however the antenna must radiate and receive quality well in all directions The 360 degree map of the antennas sensitivity is the description of the beam characshyteristics and is called the antenna patshytern

Lets bring in another analogy to illusshytrate a characteristic of the antenna pat-

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tern Imagine that an inflated round balloon represents the amount of energy your radio can transmit and that the anshytenna is in the center of the balloon The shape of the balloon represents the shape of the antenna pattern Such an antenna is called isotropic in that it radishyates equally in all directions

If we want to tune the antenna to have the beam concentrated more in one direction we adjust the antenna eleshyments accordingly This is like squeezshying the balloon down on one side to bulge it out the other In other words there is a fixed amount of air (RF enshyergy) and if we emphasize the balloon shape (pattern) in one direction well reduce it somewhere else

For our communications we normally like to have the ability to transmit and receive equally around the aircraft To do this we mount our antennas in the up and down configuration - remember this iamp polarized mostly in the vertical plane The pattern looks something like that shown In three dimensions the pattern looks more like doughnut with the hole or minimum sensitivity area directly above and below the aircraft This patshytern exists for both the quarter-wave and the half-wave antennas

To receive the VOR signals we take either the half-wave or the dipole anshytenna and rotate it 90 degrees to the horizontal position The illustration shows that the pattern rotates with the antenna and this also presents a region of minimum sensitivity off of the wing tips To fill in these gaps we bend the dipole antenna element at its center so that it now looks like the letter V Notice how some of the energy or patshytern is removed from one area to fill in the ends This is the typical rabbit ears VOR antenna

Installation

Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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Jim Koepnick

building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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Now we get to the good part installing the antennas

For you metal airplane drivers the inshystallation is straightforward The comshymunication antenna goes up and down and the VOR antenna goes sideways Remember however your metal skin is the ground plane which has RF currents flowing as part of the antennas function This ground plane requirement is much larger than most people realize and this means for best operation the mounting surface must be large as flat as possible and have good continuous RF continuity

Non-metal aircraft people have differshyent options for their antenna installashytions There are numerous locations within the airframe which work well

First dont use a ground plane anshytenna It isn t necessary It doesn t work as well as a dipole It doesn t look good It can degrade with time

Why isnt it necessa ry The dipole doesn t want to work with a ground plane It is its own self-contained system

Why doesnt it work as well You cant install a foil sheet metal or wire mesh ground plane large enough to supshyport all of the circulating skin currents

What happens with time Certain metshyals interact with other material systems and corrosion occurs In the world of RF

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currents which are circulating on the ground plane microscopic high resistance paths play havoc with the antenna operashytion The embedded screen wire or foils which depend on only mechanical contact for continuous electrical conductivity can easily degrade to a group of wires with random electrical conductivity

Locating the Dipole

The location of the dipole in the airshyframe requires some thought and planshyning because the various metal conducshytive components scattered around cause the antenna to perform in unpredictable ways

Back to the fishing pond again we find another analogy Your antenna (the float) sits there waiting for a ripple to pass by Nearby the float is a chunk of wood As the ripples pass by they strike both the float and the wood The float sees now the original ripples and the reshyflected ripples from the wood Dependshying on the location of the wood and the origin of the splash the ripples add in phase for a strong signal or become garshybled as the two series of ripples mix ripshyples This effect is due to phase interfershyence

If the chunk of wood is between the splash and the float several results are seen depending on the size of the wood

and the distance between the float and wood If the two are close the wood shadows the wave from the float If the float is positioned farther from the wood the waves begin to effect the float (diffraction in the EM world)

It is a similar situation with your anshytenna in the composite aircraft There is a main source of RF signal that is seen by the antenna and then there are weaker sources that reflect and diffract from the various metal things in the airframe Items like control cables metal tubing and wires which are close (15 inches to 25 inches) and parallel to the antenna have a more pronounced effect on the operashytion than those things which are not parshyallel or are far away

Each installation requires planning and a little trial and error One feature of internally mounted dipoles is that they can be temporarily mounted in the finshyished airframe with tape and then tested in flight If the operation is unsatisfacshytory they can be moved until the operashytion is optimized

Bill Butters is Technical Coordinator for Advanced Aircraft Electronics inc manufacturers of dipole antennas He can be reached at 1800758-8632

Reference Antennas Chapter 2 John D Kraus Second ed 1988 McGrawshyHill inc

EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

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JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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EAA OSHKOSH 94 certainly had alot to offer the AntiqueClassic member when it came to awide spectrum of aircraft You can see in the photo

above one of the modern eras symbols of advanced technology the supersonic Concorde zipping past the middle of the AntiqueClassic parking area

Once again we were fortunate to have at least two one-of-a-kind antique airplanes in attendance and we certainly wish to extend our thanks to all of you

who flew into this years Convention The Division officers and volunteers would like to extend abig Thank You to those of you who parked in the

deep South for your patience and understanding as EAA and the Division work towards providing more services to arapidly expanding part of

the Convention grounds In the next 11 pages you ll see some of the highlights of this years Convention

(Right) William Jowett of Blue Springs MO taxis past in the Silver Age Champion his 1929 Wallace Touroplane the last of its kind With folding wings and a 100 hp Kinner engine the Touroplane was set up to carry three people in its elegantly appointed cabin This particular example is SIN 12 and was built by Wallace in Chicago Il Later American Eashygle built a 4-place version of the airplane the D-430 powered with a Wright J-6-5 engine of 165 hp

(Left) The Reserve Grand Champion Anshytique - Gerald Hansons Beechcraft G-17S was once the Beech corporate airplane asshysigned to Walter Beech himself

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

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H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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New Members David Abel Terre Haute IN Lester R Allgor Hastings MN Louis G Anderson Bates City MO Ken Anthony Fremont CA Bob Arndt Sussex WI James Barnes Austin TX RJ Barron Milwaukee WI Timothy J Barry Watersmeet MI Patrick F Barton Columbia MD Dr Peggy J Baty Columbia IL S Beadsworth Hitchin Herts England Jay R Becker Santa Monica CA Bradley M Becknell Woodbury NJ David A Belcher Abington MA Donald C Belina Owatonna MN David A Beltz Columbia City IN Wayne L Benson Wurtsboro NY Stephen V Berardo Concord NH Thomas E Berg Bonsall CA Andrew C Black Old Lyme CT John C Black Baltimore MD Raymond Bossola Virginia Beach V A Robert W Bower Scottsdale AZ George W Britt Jr Longwood FL Gordon Brown New Iberia LA Russell Brown Hebbronville TX Jack Bryant Reeds Spring MO Morton Bryant Macon GA Patricia A Budy Milwaukee WI Dana M Bugbee Dededo GU Hector D Buggiano

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Fly-In calen~~r~~ The following list of coming events is fumished to our readers as a mafter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involveshymelli control or direction ofany event (fly-in semshyinars fly market etc) listed Please send the inforshymation to EAA Aft Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the evelll date

OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

NOVEMBER 10-13 PENshySACOLA FL - Aviation History SemishynarExcursion 404364-8383

NOVEMBER 10-13 - MESA AZ shy1994 Copperstate Regional EAA FlyshyIn Williams Gateway Airport 1shy800283-6372 Fax 602827-0727 NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION

DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

APRIL 9 - 15 1995 - LAKELAND FL - Sun n Fun 95 813644-2431

JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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(Above) EAA Chapter 304 did a magnificent job of restoring the EAAs Taylor E-2 Cub which was displayed next to the EAA Chapter house during the Convention

(Right) The last Laird Solution - Jimmy Rollisons 1929 LCshyRW300 was awarded an Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane trophy Built from the last remaining parts from the Laird factory the airplane was completed and flown for the first t ime in 1993

(Above) The winner of the unofficial Most Unusual Pitot Tube Cover award this year this shark looks as though its biting off more than it can chew on Bob and Lori Kitslaars 1944 Stearman

(Right) The spectacular PT-13D Stearman of Duane Huff Oakdale CA was the Champion Custom Anshytique award

Turners amazing re-creation of the DH88 Comet racer for owner Tom Wathen of Nuys CA tucks up the landing gear as it shows off its pretty lines to the

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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the very best is the P A-11 on 1320s He says it will get into and out of really small ponds yet cruise at 97 to 98 mph on 5 gph He also has a set of Federal A WB-1500 wheel skis for winter time use on the PA-1I

The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

The inhabitants o~ this once-a-yea~ -

- shyand caps with three letters and asmall gold members across the country and blue airplane emblem but their collecshytiDe work is no less magical than the mysti-

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

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APRIL 9 - 15 1995 - LAKELAND FL - Sun n Fun 95 813644-2431

JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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(Above) Ronald F VanKregten is the owner of this exshyHoward Hughes amphibion the Sikorsky S-43 Built in 1937 Hughes intended to fly it to set a round-the-world record but the flight never took place with this airplane Jess Bootenhoff flew the airplane to the Convention along with crew chief Bill Bonefas and a few others

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(Above) Brad Thomas Wright-powered Beechcraft D-17R Staggerwing was seshylected as the Bronze Age Runner-up From Pilot Mountain NC Brad started the restoration a number of years ago and then had Bern Doc Vocke of Sandwich IL complete the job

(Right) Airplanes inspire all sorts of individuals Artist Francis Hanavan of Hoboshyken NJ was pleased he could combine his love for painting with his enthusiasm for airplanes during his vacation

(Below) Master Fairchild restorer Joe Denest of West Chester PA just comshypleted the rebuild of this Fairchild PT-23-SL for Greg Herrick of Minneapolis MN It is the Runner-Up in the WW II Military TrainerLiaison antique category

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

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

(Below) Polished aluminum airplanes are an eye magnet and Jerry and Delores Adkisson of Tuscola IL always turn heads when they travel in their Luscombe BF awarded the Best Luscombe plaque at the Convenshytion

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(Above) They re rare but they are still out there This 1947 Bonanza owned and flown by Andrew and Marcell Bink of Marysville OH has never been restored - it still looks this good afshyter being continuously maintained for 47 years

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(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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- by Norm Petersen

AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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Gary Underland (left) chief mechanic f o r R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota enshyjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the EAA Seaplane Base

the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada and his richly deserved Best Fabric Seaplane award

able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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the very best is the P A-11 on 1320s He says it will get into and out of really small ponds yet cruise at 97 to 98 mph on 5 gph He also has a set of Federal A WB-1500 wheel skis for winter time use on the PA-1I

The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

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JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

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(Above left) A spunky Commonwealth Skyranger belongshying to David Cohn of Cambridge MA was parked in the south 40 showplane camping area

(Above) EE Buck Hilbert brought home the Classic Best Class II Lindy for his 1947 Aeronca 15AC Sedan It was reshystored by Paul and Pam Workman of Zanesville OH

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

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(Below and left) Parked way up in the homebuilt area was this 1946 Thorp T211 now completely restored and flying by Richard Eklund of Lockeford CA

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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(Left) Gary Granfors of Webster MN recently became one of the owners of this outstanding 1960 Cessna 172 selected as the Reserve Grand Champion Conshytemporary

(Below) This pretty 1960 Cessna 182C was judged to be the Outstanding Customized Contemporary airshyplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 It was brought to the Convention by Sean Campbell Corona Del Mar CA

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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Gary Underland (left) chief mechanic f o r R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota enshyjoy the relaxed atmosphere of the EAA Seaplane Base

the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

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JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

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JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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(Above) Crash and Burn Freddie (aka Fred Sopko) of Flagshytown NJ entertains some of the boys and girls on the Conshyvention Taxiway Freddie came to us from EAA Chapter 643 in Flemington NJ I wonder if he dresses that way for the Chapter meetings

(Left) George Mesiarik vice-president of LP Aero Plastics show how it is done in his seminar on installing windows and windshields held in the tent next to the AlC Red Barn

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(Right) The Miller Electric Company brought their new mobile demonshystration showroom to the AntiqueClassic area so members could try their new Econotig arc welding system It proved to be a very popushylar exhibit

(Below) The Type Club tent once again proved to be a popular spot for members to congregate One very active group is the Short Wing Piper Club Dedicated to the enjoyment of the short wing series of Pipers including the Pacer and Tri-Pacer plus the Vagabond and Clipper The club publishes a bi-monthly newsletter about the size of Readers Digest chocked full of maintenance and flying information

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- by Norm Petersen

AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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AntiqueClassic airplanes take 3 out of 4 seaplane awards

The Best ofthe Best seaplanes at the 1994 EAA OSHKOSH Splash-In were domishynated by vintage aircrafi with three out offour awards being garnered by oldtimers One merely had to look closely at the outstanding workmanship exhibited by these airshyplanes to realize the hard-working judges had done their job well

Enhe first time in history a 1994 Grand Champion Lindy was awarded in the seaplane classification It was won by a beautifully restored 1929 Curtiss Robin NC292E SIN 130 powshyered by a Wright J6-5 engine of 165 hp and mounted on a set of Edo M-2665 floats of the same vintage Painted in

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the original colors of orange and yelshylow with silver floats the Robin was flown to Oshkosh by its owner R W Buzz Kaplan (EAA 70086 Ale 8609) of Owatonna Minnesota a vetshyeran seaplane pilot of many years exshyperience

Close behind in Buzzs Cessna Carshyavan on floats was his chief mechanic Gary Underland (EAA 43898) along with support personnel Tony Seykora (EAA 221020) and Jim Haney (EAA 156277) This crew has more aviation experience between them than anyone cares to admit

The Robin had previously earned a Lindy at EAA OSHKOSH 91 when it was awarded (on wheels) the Silver Age Trophy The complete story of that achievement is related in the Ocshytober 1991 VINTAGE AIRPLANE pp 19 What hasnt been told was the huge task of totally rebuilding the old Edo floats that had corne with the Robin project back in 1974

Gary Underland competely dismanshytled the floats (built in November 1931) and began by making three new

bulkheads for each float with the help middot of a 500-ton press at Wipline Floats in Inver Grove Heights MN Once these parts were put in place 100 of the exterior aluminum was replaced with new metal and carefully riveted toshygether Nobody but nobody can imagine how many thousands of rivets there are in a set of floats - and Gary Underland drove everyone save for a few hundred where he was unable to reach both sides by himself The end result is typical of Garys workmanship - they dont leak and they absolutely look like factory new floats right down to the black nose bumpers

FAA certification of the floats was a bit sticky because no record could be found of M-2665 floats being installed on a Robin Both 2550 and 2880 floats were recorded but no 2665 although these floats carne complete with Curshytiss Robin rigging all in very serviceshy

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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able condition After going around for nearly a year FAA finally relented and issued the airworthiness certificate for the combination of Robin and Mshy2665 floats The FAA inspectors final words were Im on call this weekend If you fly the Robin on floats this weekshyend I dont want any phone calls

Buzz Kaplan lifted the Robin (and floats) off the dolly at the Owatonna Airport and headed for the lake where he made a near perfect landing The old girl flies like it was built for floats and Buzz says it does a very creditable job He is quite amazed at the econshyomy of the 540 cu in engine as he flew non-stop to Oshkosh with plenty of fuel to spare The Robin chugs along at 80 mph on floats and burns about 12 gph About the only change being conshysidered for the Robin is the addition of an oil cooler (antique brass) to help keep the temps in the green on warm days

Hearty congratulatons are extended to Buzz Gary and crew for the stubshyborn tenacity to finish the total rebuild of both airplane and floats and bring the pretty seabird to Oshkosh To date it is the oldest floatplane to visit the VetteBrennand Seaplane Base since EAA moved their convention to Oshkosh in 1970 The Robin joins two other famous seaplanes in the Kaplan stable a 1930 Savoia Marchetti S-56B

amphibian NCI94M and a 1936 Waco ZKS-6 on Edo 3430 floats N330TC ex CF-BBQ (nic-named Old Bar-BshyQue in Canada) That s pretty nice company

Le Best Fabric Seaplane Award was taken home by Arnie Procyshen of Kakabecka Falls Ontario Canada with his magnificently restored 1947 Piper PA-ll C-FPNL mounted on a pair of Edo 60-1320 floats Arnie whose surname is of Ukranian origin Gust like Poberezny) is most unique in that he has logged over 5000 hours on floats in about 75 different floatplanes over 15 years of flying His total airshycraft damage dUring all those hours is one bent spreader bar from high waves He has endured no less than 17 engine failures during those years and managed to put the floatplane down safely each time Incidentally Arnies total time on wheels is just over 100 hours and all of his flying has been done with a map and compass

After buying the PA-ll on floats about ten years ago Arnie flew it in his minnow business for a number of years before he knew a rebuild was imminent A complete teardown found troubles The longerons needed

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replacing considerable welding was needed elsewhere and every mod that was available was added The lefthand door was engineered into the rebuild and a large baggage compartshyment was installed along with an STCd Super Cub control system on the yoke

The Continental C90-8 was sent out for major overhaul to Douglas Aero Engines in Winnipeg Manitoba They found a cracked case and four cracked cylinders Many $$$$ later a zero time engine returned ready for work Bolted to the engine is a 74 X 41 McshyCauley seaplane propeller that lets the engine crank 2450 on the step for a really short takeoff Arnie is quick to note that he has tried nearly all types of floatplanes but the one that he likes

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

Congratulations to Heinz Peier for winning the Best Amphibian Award among approximately 75 amphibians at EAA OSHKOSH 94

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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The airplane was covered with Ceshyconite and R andolph dope using two coats of clear two silver one white and then two coats of colored urethane in ye ll ow with red trim Arnie did his own covering job and a close inspection reveals the touch of the a rtist It is nicely done The toughest part was setshytling on a paint scheme according to Arnie

In order to rebuild the floats Arnie took them through a basement window (one at a time) where he could rebuild them in the warmth of his house All side me tal was re placed and many many rivets were driven home to comshy

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(Left) Harold Dee one of the Co-Chairman of the Seaplane Base gets to wear many hats like most EAA Chairmen Here hes on lagoon patrol to help move pilots and supplies to their airplanes

plete the job All joints were sealed with PRC compound and zinc chroshymate tape He is especially pleased with the floats despite the long hours of rebuilding because they are really tight and perform better than ever

What was the toughest job Acshycording to Arnie it was waiting nershyvously during the award ceremony at the Theater-In-The-woods and when his name was called the old knees startshying shaking as he walked up the stairs and his throat and mouth felt like they were full of cotton However he says it was worth every heartbeat and the joy of taking the award home for the Best Fabric Seaplane at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was the highlight of his life Conshygratulations Arnie on a restoration job well done

L e award for the Best Amphibian at EAA OSHKOSH 94 was taken home by Heinz Peier (EAA 439289) of D aytona Beach FL and his outshystanding 1944 Grumman Goose N848HP SIN 1153 Viewing the pretty cream and green painte d Goose at EAA OSHKOSH 94 with its lawn chairs situated in a neat circle to watch the airshow it was difficult to imagine that in 1989 Heinz purchased the Goose in Long Beach CA as a flying piece of junque - to put it in Heinzs words

The Goose was flown to Chino CA where Heinz went to work on a toshytal restoration of the old girl It would take three and a half years and many many $$ to complete the job The inshyterior of the hull had major corrosion in many places especially where previshyous repairs had been (poorly) made Approximately 90 of the sheet metal had to be replaced along with several thousand rivets

Both Pratt amp Whitney R-985 enshygines were majored with all new parts and the three-blade Hartzell props were sent out for overhaul A wet center section was installed in the wing which holds 150 gallons of fuel making a total of 370 gallons - sufficient for a cruising range of nearly 2000 miles

The interior was completely reshydone with seating for 10 people comshyplete with an on-board restroom The cockpit was restored to full IFR capacshyity as Heinz is a retired air lin e pilot from Switzerland and flies IFR on a regular basis He mentions that the new interior along with the over-wing ex haust makes for a fairly quiet airshyplane which is especially welcome on long trips Having amphibious capashybilities is icing on the cake N848HP is one of 64 Grumman Geese remainshying on the US register

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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Jim Koepnick

building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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EAAs Grand Champion An Growing up in an aviation-minded

family usually means one of two things shyyou either mature to become an airplane maniac like your mom or dad or you never want to see another airplane in your life Fortunately for those who love Taylorcrafts the former is true for Tom Baker Ir of Effingham IL Toms dad Lowell (who everybody calls Tom) is a long-time EAA member who had been coming to the annual Convention since 1961 He finished his first airplane a Stits Playboy when Tom Ir was five years old so for as long as he can remember full size airplanes have been part of the Baker household

Now out on his own and building his own life young Tom has continued to keep an airplane as part of his household A 1941 Taylorcraft BL-65 was completed just before EAA OSHKOSH 94 and for

aU his effort and research Toms neat-asshya-pin two-place airplane was awarded the Grand Champion Antique Lindy trophy

Taylorcraft NC29815 was bought new by the Springfield Aviation Company for use in the expanding Civilian Pilot Trainshying Program The airplane flew as a trainer for the Springfield outfit until the end of the War when it was sold into prishyvate hands From that point it went through a few owners but it never left the centrallllinois area Eventually it wound up in the hangar of the local mechanic Dave Winship at the airport in Effingshyham Tom Baker was a fresh-faced high school kid from town who was just getting started in working for his money and he spent many hours working under Daves supervision Later when Winship left the aviation business he took his Taylorcraft home to his garage Already dissembled

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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Uefor 1994 fo r a rebuild the airplane would remain so for almost 10 yea rs Anothe r fe llow bought it but never moved the project out of Daves garage Finally Tom now a bit older and with an AampP mechanics license he earned whil e attending Belleville Area College in the St Louis area made arra~ments to buy the airshyplane in 1988

Tom also started to learn to fly at the age of 15 His tim soW took place just afshyter hi s 16th birthday flying hi s dad s Citabria which he continued to fly while earning his Private Pilots certificate at the age of 17 He also eventually worked to earn his Commercial license so he could be paid to do some high altitude (relatively speaking) aerial photography for crop surveys In Februa ry 1990 he earned his Certihed Flight Instructor lishycense In faltt hoe took the clleck ride in

his dads newly restored BC-12 Taylorshycraft which was featured in a cover artishycle in the May 1990 issue of SPORT AVIshyATION

He also found time to work into a job flying a Piper Warrior on pipeline patrol as well as patrolling buried telephone cashybles How do you inspect a buried teleshyphone cable You look for signs of conshystruction in the cable right-of-way - a break in a major ATampT fiberoptic cable can cost the company as much as $10000 per minute A pilot and plane flying a survey a few times per month is cheap inshysurance against something so catastrophic as a cable disruption or a pipel ine break which could also cost mi llions of dollars in cleanup costs and EPA fines

On a part-time basis Tom also works at mechanicing at the local airport in Effingham IL when hes not out fly ing a patrol During the res t of his time hes dedicated himself to restoring the Taylorshycraft

Originally Tom had tho ughts about converting the airplane to the c1ippedshywi ng mode l fo r aero ba ti cs but as he looked into it deeper he realized he had a ve ry origina l airpla ne to resto re Oh there were a few changes here and there with an extra fuel tank added and a Conshytine ntal A -65 re plac ing the 55 hp Lyshycoming that was on the airplane when first produced but most of the hard to find parts he needed for an original restoration were already there - an origishynal big tachometer Taylorcraft compass and round control wheels plus the factory supplied Shinn wheels and brakes

While Tom would like to do a clip wing T-Craft someday this project was not goshying to head in that direction He set out to restore the airplane as it was delivered to Springfield in 1941

Along with the project came a bunch of other parts the previous owner had inshytended to use while he rebuilt the airshyplane but multh of it would not be approshyJXiate for an original restOpoundation Frames

for the later model D-windows BC-12 wingtips and wing fuel tanks were just a few of the parts Tom could use to trade for needed parts

After discovering the airplane was first delivered with a 55 hp Lycoming Tom made the decision to convert the airplane back to a Lycoming and since the 55 and 65 hp models dont have any external difshyferences he opted to build up a 65 hp Lyshycoming for installation in the Taylorcraft A bunch of horse trading for the mount and extra engine parts finally resulted in enough airworthy components to make up a good engine

All of the sheet metal that came with the airplane was pretty rough and cershytainly bad enough to require replacement Even the nose bowl was in bad condition so Tom sent the original to John Neel of Georgia Meta l Shaping John crafted a new nose bowl usi ng an English Wheel and sent it up to Effingham Later Tom needed to add a slight reveal around the oil dipstick hole He remembered I had to make up a die to stamp that in there Thats one nervous moment when you got a $165 nose bowl there and youre getting ready to hi t it with a hammer hoping everything comes out right

Tom and his dad have since bought an English Wheel and are now learning how to use the tool to do more of their own metalwork

Tom did all of the flat stock sheet metal learning how to form the rolled edges with hard wire included in the rolled edge Lots of practice we nt into Ieaming the painstaking process to duplishycate the machine formed edge using hand forming The only other piece of purshychased sheet metal is the instrument panel Tom was all ready to make up a form block and start hammering meta when he discovered another Taylorcrllfit restorer who had already had a form block made up and was willing to make up a panel for Tom

As tite word got out that Tom was

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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(Left) Early Taylorcrafts used a pair of flippers for longishytudinal trim (Below) The project came with this original Taylorcraft compass

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Have you ever seen a nicer example of a Shinn wheel and brake

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Jim Koepnick

building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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building up an original airplane folks sta rted contacting him to help him out One of the more interesting items that arshyrived in the mail was an original Lycoming propeller plate sent by a man in the Northeast who heard that Torn could use original parts so he mailed him one

The 12 gallon nose fuel tank was reshytained and no additional tanks were inshysta lled Although the 41 Taylorcraft could be bought new with an auxiliary tank installed under the baggage comshypartment few training airplanes were purchased with one and this Taylorcraft was no exception

When the landing gears time for reshyview carne up Torn retained the Shinn wheels and brakes and was even able to buy a set of original hubcaps They were just a bit corroded so they could not simshyply be polished out but they painted up just fine A crowning touch on the wheel backplates was a pair of brand new Shinn dust covers for the brake adjusters Often they take on a rather beat up appearance or disappear altogether as stones and other debris are kicked up by the prop blast and tires Torns look as though they were plucked off the shelf and put on only hours before

Often its the little details that set off the winners from the ones right behind them and one that might escape some restorers is the use of proper hardware for the period One of the little things that made the difference for Torn was his proper use of straight-slotted screws At the time th e airplane was made the Phillips head screw was not in common usage on light civilian aircraft You ofshyten see Phillips head screws used on restorations primarily because the chances of damage due to slipping off the fastener with a screwdriver are lessshy

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ened Torn understands that but says the straight slots really gave him little trouble He pointed out that if you are careful problems with slipping off are rare He say you should always use the proper size screwdriver and keep it well maintained with a square sharp tip Purshychasing high quality screwdrivers also pays dividends in this area

Theres another aspect to the hardshyware that deserves praise - the use of white cadmium plating instead of todays gold cad plating

Another area where the proper hardshyware made the difference is the windshyshield Torns Taylorcraft features a fourshypiece windshield with a series of aluminum strips to secure the plastic Soft aluminum round head rivets were used originally and after a little research Torn found he could still buy the round head rivets and used them instead of the more common AN 470 universal head rivshyets in use today

Small trim details are always a pain to duplicate and sometimes you have to look in what appears to be the most unshylikely spot for a lead This time Torn Sr was flipping through a motor horne parts supply catalog and noticed a door handle that looked identical to the door handle on the airplane They werent too expenshysive so they ordered 20 of them - and what do you know they were almost a perfect duplicate of the original door hanshydle The mounting plate was even the same and unless you put an original and duplicate together Torn says you can hardly see the difference

Torn did press his dad into service on a few items on the airplane Since Torn Sr is a professional upholsterer he did the seat cushions and the baggage compartshyment Its built out of the same cotton

duck cloth that was delivered with the Taylorcraft

The rest of the interior was done by Torn Jr including refurbishing the large tachometer The tach itself was in reshybuildable shape but the dial was faded and worn What to do Torn simply went about leaning how to si lkscreen so he could make up a new faceplate With the internal mechanics reworked by John Wolf and company of Willoughby OH the centerpiece of the instrument panel was ready for the other instruments

You may notice that the instrument panel has an original style ignition switch What is completely hidden from view is the fact that the switch handle neatly hides a modem ignition switch The new switch is mounted behind the old switchs faceplate and the new key is soldered into the handle Its a very effective solushytion to the problem of replaceing older less reliable magneto switches

Other parts that were retained inshycluded the tailwheel a Heath unit built specially for Taylorcraft It was in pretty tough shape but some machine shop work had the steerable tailwheel ready for service

Finally when it carne to covering Torn used the Stits process He did it with a slight twist however The wings are finshyished out in silver Poly tone with the final paint on the fuselage is Aerothane Torn is to be commended for his work on the covering - we all know how difficult it can be to have a silver finished airplane corne out looking good but he managed to do it His tapes are straight and all the edges are securely stuck down with no fuzzy edges showing He was also specific in expressing his desires for a dope look whe n he ordered hi s Aerothane from Stits (now Poly-Fiber) He told them he wanted the blue to look just a bit less glossy so it would have that sprayed but not completely hand rubbed out look when it was sprayed on the fuselage The result is an airplane that truly does look as thought it had just been delivered from the factory in Alliance The judges must have thought so as well for when the points were totaled and the trophies enshygraved Torn Baker J r s name was enshygraved on the Lindy honoring his BL-65 Taylorcraft as the Grand Champion Anshytique at EAA OSHKOSH 94

Torn Sr was resting under the wing of the Taylorcraft one afternoon during the Convention when I stopped by to say hello As the conversation went along I asked him how much of the airplane he had worked on Very very little he replied This is his airplane The pride in hi s eyes finished the rest of the senshytence - he knew how well his son had done and was supremely happy and proud of his accomplishment

ysteryPane by George Hardie

H res an old timer that will send readers to the history books The photo was submitted by the late Owen Billshyman Mayfield NY Answers will be published in the January 1995 issue of VINTAGE AIRPLANE Deadlinefor that issue is November 251994

The July Mystery Plane was a puzzle to many readers since we did not reshycieve too many answers Ted Giltner Tamaqua P A writes

The July 1994 Mystery Plane is the Management and Research Model Hshy70-71 It was manufactured in 1937 for th e US D epartment of Commerce The airplane had crashed on January 271938 at Floyd Bennett Field New

York and was then rebuilt by Tuscar Metals Inc Testing was resumed on April 15 1938 and it accumulated 50 to 60 hours flying time by November 1944 Less than a year later it was toshytally destroyed in a crash in August 1945

More information can be found in the book Winged Wonders The Story of the Flying Wings by E T Wooldridge pages 61-64

Other answers were received from Charley Hayes Park Forest IL Vic Smith Uxbridge England Lennart Johnnson Eldsberga Sw eden Bill Berkley No Syracuse NY James Borshyden Menahaga MN and Roland Hall Northfield IL

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

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DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

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Tailwheels taildraggers conventional gear

I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

Daxs of yore shy The first yerslon of the AntiqueClassic Red 8arn

26 OCTOBER 1994

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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Fly-In calen~~r~~ The following list of coming events is fumished to our readers as a mafter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involveshymelli control or direction ofany event (fly-in semshyinars fly market etc) listed Please send the inforshymation to EAA Aft Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the evelll date

OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

NOVEMBER 10-13 PENshySACOLA FL - Aviation History SemishynarExcursion 404364-8383

NOVEMBER 10-13 - MESA AZ shy1994 Copperstate Regional EAA FlyshyIn Williams Gateway Airport 1shy800283-6372 Fax 602827-0727 NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION

DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

APRIL 9 - 15 1995 - LAKELAND FL - Sun n Fun 95 813644-2431

JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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I have seen a grown man agonize trying to taxi let alone handle a takeoff or landshying in one of the above

The scene is a ferry flight from our home field the Funny Farm to Oshkosh I have three airplanes to move and on ly two qualified taildragger pilots The third man is a wonderful glider pilot with lots of time in sailplanes and plenty more in airshyplanes with a training wheel up front He even professes that he had some time in a 1-3 some years back

Since we have an Aeronca C-3 and the Swallow biplane to get up to Oshkosh the 170B will be our taxi ship for the return

trip The C-3 with its two-cylinder single ignition engine of only 36 hp limited range and 60 mph cruise will be the most trying The old Swallow mail plane a grand old lady will be the one Ill fly The plan is we will fly together

Matt will take the C-3 Dick will fly the C-170B and of course I will fly the United Airlines Swallow because I m the o nl y United pilot listed as the Captain on that one

Since Dick had a lot of 172 time and is fami liar with the type I figured hed have no trouble with the 170 especially with all his glider instruction time Matt has flown the C-3 a lot is a good stick and rudder man and knows the risks and the limitashy

tions I tell Matt to go on ahead that we will catch up with him

Dick a nd I climb into the 170 for a quick check-out Did I say quick Ill say it was It was a very quick 270 to the right followed by a 180 to the left followed by some very distinct exclamations by yours truly Wh at are yo u trying to do I asked o nl y to see an agonized look of helplessness from Dick We a re now ha lfway down the runway facing backshywards to the way we started to taxi for takeoff I straighten it out turn it around and start talking He tries some more and has much the same result For almost 20 minutes we zig and zag and swerve and ground loop There is NO way Im gonna le t this airplane go Dick is just not able to handle it I cant believe it

Then here comes Matt in the C-3 He had forgotten hi s sunglasses and came back to ge t them The germ of an idea maybe Dick can handl e the C-3 so we play musical airplanes D ick takes the Cshy3 and since there really isnt room for two 200 pounders in it I tell him to taxi around and try it out If he feels comfortable and is willing maybe he would like to fly it H e does just fine He taxies it up and down sp in s it aro und on purpose and does an admirable job We bring it back to the gas pump and top it off and make sure he has the 2 12 gallon reserve gas tank on the floor in the event of adverse winds or whatever And I te ll him about being spring loaded to the forced landing mode and he assures me he has everything under control understands the fact that his glide ratio aint like his sailplane and off we go

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26 OCTOBER 1994

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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Fly-In calen~~r~~ The following list of coming events is fumished to our readers as a mafter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involveshymelli control or direction ofany event (fly-in semshyinars fly market etc) listed Please send the inforshymation to EAA Aft Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the evelll date

OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

NOVEMBER 10-13 PENshySACOLA FL - Aviation History SemishynarExcursion 404364-8383

NOVEMBER 10-13 - MESA AZ shy1994 Copperstate Regional EAA FlyshyIn Williams Gateway Airport 1shy800283-6372 Fax 602827-0727 NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION

DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

APRIL 9 - 15 1995 - LAKELAND FL - Sun n Fun 95 813644-2431

JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

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AIRCRAFT 1938 WACO AGC-8 for sale - Originally owned by TWA with a very interesting history Phone Ivan Trofimov 513884-7172 or write 7700 Countyline Road N Brookville Ohio 45309 (9-1)

MISCELLANEOUS SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMA-d 4130 chrome-moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 59714 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5R148N

(NEW) This amp That About the Ercoupe $1400 Fly-About Adventures amp the Ercoupe $1795 Both books $2500 Fly-About PO Box 51144 Denton Texas 76206 (ufn)

GEE BEE - R-1 R-2 super-scale model plans used for WolfBenjaminS R-2 GB Z Bulldog Goon Monocoupe Culver Rearwin Updated enlarged (131416-124) PLANS on SHIRTSCapsl CatalogNews $400 refundable Vern Clements 308 Palo Alto Caldwell 10 83605 (c-994)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs -orginal brass tip plugs for your Champ Cub Taylorcraft Stearman etc Military reconditioned $575 to $975 404478-2310 (c-1194)

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Popular Aviation Aero Digest Aviation Sportsman Pilot and other vintage aeronaushytical magazines from 1920s 1930s and 1940s Have several thousand available Also other 1915-1950 plane and pilot items Buy - sell - trade 44-page catalog airmailed to you $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (10-4)

Sitka Spruce Lumber - Oshkosh Home Bldg Ctr Inc 414235-0990 Oshkosh Wisconsin (c-695)

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Cole Palen Memorial - Foundation introduction and missing man formation flight - VHS format 41 min An indelible moment in time $2000 plus $350 shipping amp handling Check or Money order to Airborne Adventures Inc 6229 Poolsbrook Road Kirkville NY 13082 (12-4)

Wheel Pants - The most accurate replica wheel pants for antique and classics available on the market today 100 satisfaction guaranteed Available in primer gray gelcoat Harbor Ultra-Lite Products Co 1326 Batey Place Harbor City CA 90720 phone 310326-5609 or FAX 310530-2124 (ufn)

Restoring Building - Professional metal polishinglbuffing Props spinners struts etc Reasonable rates Let us save you time G Murphy 317552-8104 (10-1)

VIDEOS - TAILDRAGGERS AND FARMSTRIPS Piper J-3 and J-5 CUB display tailwheel flying and short field landing techniques $1995 A TIGERS TALE Fascinating story of the Tiger Moth biplane featuring Christopher Reeve flying with the exclusive Tiger Club in England $1995 THE GEE BEE AIRPLANES Documentary of rare film interviews of the Granville brothers Bob Hall and Pete Miller Extraordinary footage of Lowell Bayles crash and Jimmy Doolittle winning the Thompson Trophy $2495 WATshySONVillE FLY-IN Outstanding antique and classic video featuring Stearmans Wacos Stinsons Ryans and many more beautiful aircraft $2995 Order any 3 videos and receive a 10 discount plus our90 min preview tape FREE $475 SampH for one tape $1 for each addi tape Call 800-700-0747 Mail VC Marketing 40 Kitty Hawk East Richmond TX 77469 (TX Res add 7-114 tax) (c-12194)

WACO OWNERS - Tighten up that loose tail wheel with new bronze tail post bushings - WACO Part 8101 - set of 2 postpaid $65 Also available engine mount bushings for pre-1937 WACOs - Part 12611 - set of 16 Postpaid $115 Also interested in buying or trading WACO parts Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (11-2)

WANTED Wanted - Heywood starter system or any part thereof Will even accept the manual 215257-0817 (10-1)

Wanted - Complete serviceable prop hub for Ken-Royce 7-G Radial Gene 303279shy5782

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

(Left) A worn-out and broken item number 9 the pawl made the tailwheel on Bucks 170 unsteerable Regular maintenance can prevent that kind of excitment for the pilot

(Below) Capt Matt Poleski and the C-3 on the UAC ramp at OHare

Matt isn t too happy about having to fly th e Cessna but he does I crank up the Swallow and we make Oshkosh about two hours and 15 minutes later Not bad for a 145 mile trip Pacing the C-3 our groundspeed was just under 60 We made it fine

We all land safely and then Matt te lls me that the 170 IS a Little squirrelly on the ground and maybe it isnt all Dicks fault I make some smart remark about airline pilots and their lack of technique in flying real airplanes We all climb into the 170 with me flying and home we go The wind isnt down the runway but the crosswind isn t that bad and I paste it on It veers into the wind and with both heels on the floor and fast losing rudder effectiveness Im having a hard time hanging onto it Superior skill and cunning along with

so me luck e nables me to salvage it though and we pull up to the hangar and finally take a look at the tail wheel Since I cant handl e it there MUST be someshything wrong with it right

It looks OK it see ms to track OK Matt get in there and work the rudders The rudder moves the tail wheel doesn t Lets get the tail up in the air and see whats happening there

Well as it turns out there s no detent There is no way in the world the tail wheel can be steered with th e rudder because when we disassemble it we find the spring and pawl that does the stee ring job broshyken Dick really wasnt that bad a pilot afshyter all

Th e Storal of th e Morey is p reshyflight Oh sure we did one we counted the wings kicked the tires lit the fire and

went After all we fly th e BIG ones and these little ones are FUN-FUNshyFUN aren t they How can they hurt a guy

Well ask John Monnett ask a couple other guys who have NOT done a thorshyough preflight only to find something radishycally wrong when its too la te Like aileron cables hooked up backwards or gas gauges reading empty and assuming they are full because they both read the same control locks still in place altimeter not set or the directional gyro not set All these could have been caught before troushyble developed with a thorough preflight and compliance with the check list

Well have more on tailwheels in next month s column as well as AIC Tidbits No more lectures It s Over to You with something to think about

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Fly-In calen~~r~~ The following list of coming events is fumished to our readers as a mafter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involveshymelli control or direction ofany event (fly-in semshyinars fly market etc) listed Please send the inforshymation to EAA Aft Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the evelll date

OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

NOVEMBER 10-13 PENshySACOLA FL - Aviation History SemishynarExcursion 404364-8383

NOVEMBER 10-13 - MESA AZ shy1994 Copperstate Regional EAA FlyshyIn Williams Gateway Airport 1shy800283-6372 Fax 602827-0727 NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION

DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

APRIL 9 - 15 1995 - LAKELAND FL - Sun n Fun 95 813644-2431

JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

MOVING IS THERE A NEW

LOCATION IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Be sure that your membership and VINTAGE AIRPLANE follows you Let us know at least two months in advance of your move

Send your change of address (include membership number) to

VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO BOX 3086

OSHKOSH WI 54903-3086

or call

1-800843-3612

35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oahkoah WI 54903-3086

Payment muat accompany ad VISAIMaaterCard accepted

AIRCRAFT 1938 WACO AGC-8 for sale - Originally owned by TWA with a very interesting history Phone Ivan Trofimov 513884-7172 or write 7700 Countyline Road N Brookville Ohio 45309 (9-1)

MISCELLANEOUS SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMA-d 4130 chrome-moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 59714 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5R148N

(NEW) This amp That About the Ercoupe $1400 Fly-About Adventures amp the Ercoupe $1795 Both books $2500 Fly-About PO Box 51144 Denton Texas 76206 (ufn)

GEE BEE - R-1 R-2 super-scale model plans used for WolfBenjaminS R-2 GB Z Bulldog Goon Monocoupe Culver Rearwin Updated enlarged (131416-124) PLANS on SHIRTSCapsl CatalogNews $400 refundable Vern Clements 308 Palo Alto Caldwell 10 83605 (c-994)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs -orginal brass tip plugs for your Champ Cub Taylorcraft Stearman etc Military reconditioned $575 to $975 404478-2310 (c-1194)

DO YOU SAVE SPORT AVIATION

If youre like many EAA members you save your back issues of Sport Aviation as a personal resource library But how many times have you searched through a mile-high stack of magazines looking for one article only to find that issue damaged or worse yet missing End your worries and organize your Sport library with these new EAA Sport Aviation binders Store a complete years worth of Sport Aviation without worry These attractive high-quality binders are extremely durable and are available in deep blue with gold-colored lettering

BINDERS $995 each 3 for $2795 6 for $5295 (plus shipping)

Wis residents add 5 sales tax To order call

1-800-843-3612 or write

Sport Binder P O Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Popular Aviation Aero Digest Aviation Sportsman Pilot and other vintage aeronaushytical magazines from 1920s 1930s and 1940s Have several thousand available Also other 1915-1950 plane and pilot items Buy - sell - trade 44-page catalog airmailed to you $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (10-4)

Sitka Spruce Lumber - Oshkosh Home Bldg Ctr Inc 414235-0990 Oshkosh Wisconsin (c-695)

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Cole Palen Memorial - Foundation introduction and missing man formation flight - VHS format 41 min An indelible moment in time $2000 plus $350 shipping amp handling Check or Money order to Airborne Adventures Inc 6229 Poolsbrook Road Kirkville NY 13082 (12-4)

Wheel Pants - The most accurate replica wheel pants for antique and classics available on the market today 100 satisfaction guaranteed Available in primer gray gelcoat Harbor Ultra-Lite Products Co 1326 Batey Place Harbor City CA 90720 phone 310326-5609 or FAX 310530-2124 (ufn)

Restoring Building - Professional metal polishinglbuffing Props spinners struts etc Reasonable rates Let us save you time G Murphy 317552-8104 (10-1)

VIDEOS - TAILDRAGGERS AND FARMSTRIPS Piper J-3 and J-5 CUB display tailwheel flying and short field landing techniques $1995 A TIGERS TALE Fascinating story of the Tiger Moth biplane featuring Christopher Reeve flying with the exclusive Tiger Club in England $1995 THE GEE BEE AIRPLANES Documentary of rare film interviews of the Granville brothers Bob Hall and Pete Miller Extraordinary footage of Lowell Bayles crash and Jimmy Doolittle winning the Thompson Trophy $2495 WATshySONVillE FLY-IN Outstanding antique and classic video featuring Stearmans Wacos Stinsons Ryans and many more beautiful aircraft $2995 Order any 3 videos and receive a 10 discount plus our90 min preview tape FREE $475 SampH for one tape $1 for each addi tape Call 800-700-0747 Mail VC Marketing 40 Kitty Hawk East Richmond TX 77469 (TX Res add 7-114 tax) (c-12194)

WACO OWNERS - Tighten up that loose tail wheel with new bronze tail post bushings - WACO Part 8101 - set of 2 postpaid $65 Also available engine mount bushings for pre-1937 WACOs - Part 12611 - set of 16 Postpaid $115 Also interested in buying or trading WACO parts Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (11-2)

WANTED Wanted - Heywood starter system or any part thereof Will even accept the manual 215257-0817 (10-1)

Wanted - Complete serviceable prop hub for Ken-Royce 7-G Radial Gene 303279shy5782

30 OCTOBER 1994

Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation

Custom quality at economical prices_

bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes

Free catalog of complete product line

Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300

Qire~RODUCTS INC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115

LEXANDER EROPLANE COMPANY INC

Our Main Product is Service

bull Hardware

bull Airframe Parts bull Interiors amp Covering Materials

bull Presewn Fabric Envelopes

Call 1-800-831-2949 for a FREE Catalog and

Subscription to Aeroplane News

Ask about our Workshops 2-Full Days of Detailed Classroom

and Hands-On Instruction

for only $150

Your Choice Fabric Covering Composite Basics Welding or Sheet Metal Basics

L-________________________________~

PO Box 909 bull Griffin Go bull Fox 404-229-2329

5DrucingUp1heGoose

When it goes on display again the Spruce Goose will be sporting tough new fabric control surfaces by Poly-Fiber The AirVenture Museum people want them to last and Poly-Fiber will_ On the Goose and on your airplane too Watch for announcements of future Poly-Fiber builder workshops Find out how easy it really is to do it yourself

hfl Bflnchmark of Aircraft Fabric Covflring Systflms

Customer Service 800-361-3490 Other Stuff 909-684-4280

Post Office Box 3129 ffiImRive rside California 92519 Aircraft Coati gs

po box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

AWWA MEMBER

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ON regar THE TOTAL SPORTS NETWORK

IAirs Monday Oct 17 10 pm EST I The Great Denver to Oshkosh Cross Country Race

bull The Worlds Greatest Airshow Pilots bull Supersonic Concorde bull Homebuilts Combat Jets

bull Dogfight With a Fighter Pilot and a Eleven-year-old Ace bull Apollo Astronauts bull World Record Attempt in Time-to-Climb bull World War II Fighters and Bombers bull Be a part of the largest

most unique aviation gathering in the world SPONSORED BY

EAAreg KING J

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Kaunas Lieby Lithuania Martin Strelow Schwelm Germany Cody F Welch Midland MI David Reno Carrollton IL Russell A Strine Harrisburg P A Robert Scott West Olathe KS Vincent D Rice Jr Shreveport LA Louis A Strom Chicago IL Duncan W Wiedemann WheatonIL Betty F Riddle Tulsa OK John J Swaney Valley Ranch TX SJ Wolff Rimrock AZ Lawrence J Rooney St Petersburg FL James Takacs Janet S Yoder Wichita KS James C Rosater Woodstock IL Fonthill Ontario Canada John E Youngblut Niwot CO Modesto Ruiz Jr Frostproof FL Charles W Talbot Shawn R YukI Belle Plaine IA Donald Sanders Kathy WI Mississauga Ontario Canada Mary Jo Zignego Hartford WI

Fly-In calen~~r~~ The following list of coming events is fumished to our readers as a mafter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involveshymelli control or direction ofany event (fly-in semshyinars fly market etc) listed Please send the inforshymation to EAA Aft Golda Cox PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the evelll date

OCTOBER 12-17 - TULLAHOMA TN - 1994 Staggerwing - Travel AirshyTwin Beech Convention sponsored by the Staggerwing Museum Foundation Howard Spartans and Twin Bonanzas are also welcome Membership in the Staggerwing Museum required - for more information call 615455-1974 Pre-regshyistration by Oct 1 is also required

OCTOBER 14 -16 - KERRVILLE TX - Kerrville Municipal Airport EAA Regional Fly-In Camping Forums and awards banquet Saturday night For more information call the Kerrville Chamber of Commerce at 800221-7958

OCTOBER 15 - NORTH HAMPshyTON NH - EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 15 4th Annual Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-In 603964shy6749

OCTOBER 21-23 - AUGUSTA GA DANIEL FIELD - Boshears Memorial Fly-In Phone 706736-9512

NOVEMBER 10-13 PENshySACOLA FL - Aviation History SemishynarExcursion 404364-8383

NOVEMBER 10-13 - MESA AZ shy1994 Copperstate Regional EAA FlyshyIn Williams Gateway Airport 1shy800283-6372 Fax 602827-0727 NOTE NEW DATE AND LOCATION

DECEMBER 3 - 4 - LAKELAND FL - Lakeland-Linder Municipal Airshyport A gala fly-in Christmas party hosted jointly by Florida Sport Aviation Antique And Classic Assoc (FAACA) Florida Ercoupe Club Short Wing Piper Club Cessna 170 Club J -3 Club Florida Aero Club et al The party will be held on the Sun n Fun grounds with the

party and dinner in the FAA building and fly-in HQ at the AlC building Conshytact Don Russell at 813676-0659 for more information

JANUARY 1 1995 - W ARSAW IN - 3rd Annual HANGer OVER PARTY and Fly-In 11 am to 2p m 5 star restaurant quality road kill hot dogs chips coffee and hot cocoa Indianas biggest winter fly-in For info call Larry Lamp 219453-4364

APRIL 9 - 15 1995 - LAKELAND FL - Sun n Fun 95 813644-2431

JULY 27 AUGUST 2 OSHKOSH WI - 43rd Annual EAA Fly-In and Sport Aviation Convention Wittman Regional Airport Contact John Burton EAA PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 414426shy4800

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

MOVING IS THERE A NEW

LOCATION IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Be sure that your membership and VINTAGE AIRPLANE follows you Let us know at least two months in advance of your move

Send your change of address (include membership number) to

VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO BOX 3086

OSHKOSH WI 54903-3086

or call

1-800843-3612

35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oahkoah WI 54903-3086

Payment muat accompany ad VISAIMaaterCard accepted

AIRCRAFT 1938 WACO AGC-8 for sale - Originally owned by TWA with a very interesting history Phone Ivan Trofimov 513884-7172 or write 7700 Countyline Road N Brookville Ohio 45309 (9-1)

MISCELLANEOUS SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMA-d 4130 chrome-moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 59714 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5R148N

(NEW) This amp That About the Ercoupe $1400 Fly-About Adventures amp the Ercoupe $1795 Both books $2500 Fly-About PO Box 51144 Denton Texas 76206 (ufn)

GEE BEE - R-1 R-2 super-scale model plans used for WolfBenjaminS R-2 GB Z Bulldog Goon Monocoupe Culver Rearwin Updated enlarged (131416-124) PLANS on SHIRTSCapsl CatalogNews $400 refundable Vern Clements 308 Palo Alto Caldwell 10 83605 (c-994)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs -orginal brass tip plugs for your Champ Cub Taylorcraft Stearman etc Military reconditioned $575 to $975 404478-2310 (c-1194)

DO YOU SAVE SPORT AVIATION

If youre like many EAA members you save your back issues of Sport Aviation as a personal resource library But how many times have you searched through a mile-high stack of magazines looking for one article only to find that issue damaged or worse yet missing End your worries and organize your Sport library with these new EAA Sport Aviation binders Store a complete years worth of Sport Aviation without worry These attractive high-quality binders are extremely durable and are available in deep blue with gold-colored lettering

BINDERS $995 each 3 for $2795 6 for $5295 (plus shipping)

Wis residents add 5 sales tax To order call

1-800-843-3612 or write

Sport Binder P O Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Popular Aviation Aero Digest Aviation Sportsman Pilot and other vintage aeronaushytical magazines from 1920s 1930s and 1940s Have several thousand available Also other 1915-1950 plane and pilot items Buy - sell - trade 44-page catalog airmailed to you $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (10-4)

Sitka Spruce Lumber - Oshkosh Home Bldg Ctr Inc 414235-0990 Oshkosh Wisconsin (c-695)

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Cole Palen Memorial - Foundation introduction and missing man formation flight - VHS format 41 min An indelible moment in time $2000 plus $350 shipping amp handling Check or Money order to Airborne Adventures Inc 6229 Poolsbrook Road Kirkville NY 13082 (12-4)

Wheel Pants - The most accurate replica wheel pants for antique and classics available on the market today 100 satisfaction guaranteed Available in primer gray gelcoat Harbor Ultra-Lite Products Co 1326 Batey Place Harbor City CA 90720 phone 310326-5609 or FAX 310530-2124 (ufn)

Restoring Building - Professional metal polishinglbuffing Props spinners struts etc Reasonable rates Let us save you time G Murphy 317552-8104 (10-1)

VIDEOS - TAILDRAGGERS AND FARMSTRIPS Piper J-3 and J-5 CUB display tailwheel flying and short field landing techniques $1995 A TIGERS TALE Fascinating story of the Tiger Moth biplane featuring Christopher Reeve flying with the exclusive Tiger Club in England $1995 THE GEE BEE AIRPLANES Documentary of rare film interviews of the Granville brothers Bob Hall and Pete Miller Extraordinary footage of Lowell Bayles crash and Jimmy Doolittle winning the Thompson Trophy $2495 WATshySONVillE FLY-IN Outstanding antique and classic video featuring Stearmans Wacos Stinsons Ryans and many more beautiful aircraft $2995 Order any 3 videos and receive a 10 discount plus our90 min preview tape FREE $475 SampH for one tape $1 for each addi tape Call 800-700-0747 Mail VC Marketing 40 Kitty Hawk East Richmond TX 77469 (TX Res add 7-114 tax) (c-12194)

WACO OWNERS - Tighten up that loose tail wheel with new bronze tail post bushings - WACO Part 8101 - set of 2 postpaid $65 Also available engine mount bushings for pre-1937 WACOs - Part 12611 - set of 16 Postpaid $115 Also interested in buying or trading WACO parts Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (11-2)

WANTED Wanted - Heywood starter system or any part thereof Will even accept the manual 215257-0817 (10-1)

Wanted - Complete serviceable prop hub for Ken-Royce 7-G Radial Gene 303279shy5782

30 OCTOBER 1994

Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation

Custom quality at economical prices_

bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes

Free catalog of complete product line

Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300

Qire~RODUCTS INC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115

LEXANDER EROPLANE COMPANY INC

Our Main Product is Service

bull Hardware

bull Airframe Parts bull Interiors amp Covering Materials

bull Presewn Fabric Envelopes

Call 1-800-831-2949 for a FREE Catalog and

Subscription to Aeroplane News

Ask about our Workshops 2-Full Days of Detailed Classroom

and Hands-On Instruction

for only $150

Your Choice Fabric Covering Composite Basics Welding or Sheet Metal Basics

L-________________________________~

PO Box 909 bull Griffin Go bull Fox 404-229-2329

5DrucingUp1heGoose

When it goes on display again the Spruce Goose will be sporting tough new fabric control surfaces by Poly-Fiber The AirVenture Museum people want them to last and Poly-Fiber will_ On the Goose and on your airplane too Watch for announcements of future Poly-Fiber builder workshops Find out how easy it really is to do it yourself

hfl Bflnchmark of Aircraft Fabric Covflring Systflms

Customer Service 800-361-3490 Other Stuff 909-684-4280

Post Office Box 3129 ffiImRive rside California 92519 Aircraft Coati gs

po box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

AWWA MEMBER

MEMBER

I ANI( PAINTINb AND REPAIRING

SANDLASTING TANK LINUS AND COATINGS PREVENTIVE TANK AINHNANCE INSPlCTiON SERVICE lADDU SAfETY toUIPENI

RESERvOIR LINERS AND ROOfS

DISMANTlING AND OVING TANKS

NEW USED AND RECONDITIONED TANKS

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

ON regar THE TOTAL SPORTS NETWORK

IAirs Monday Oct 17 10 pm EST I The Great Denver to Oshkosh Cross Country Race

bull The Worlds Greatest Airshow Pilots bull Supersonic Concorde bull Homebuilts Combat Jets

bull Dogfight With a Fighter Pilot and a Eleven-year-old Ace bull Apollo Astronauts bull World Record Attempt in Time-to-Climb bull World War II Fighters and Bombers bull Be a part of the largest

most unique aviation gathering in the world SPONSORED BY

EAAreg KING J

SCHOOLS T FLYING

CAviMco INSURANCE COMPANY

Canon

AVIATION UNLIMITED AGENCY

BeCOllle A Metnber Of The BAA AntiqueCI~ssic Insurance Progralll

3ElTEFITS INCLUDE Call TodayLower Uability amp Hull Premiums Fleet Discounts No Age penalty 800-727-3823 No Hand Propping Exclusions No Component Parts Endorsements I A+ Company with In-House Claims ~~ Service

I Option to Repair Your Own Aircraft

APPROVED

MOVING IS THERE A NEW

LOCATION IN YOUR IMMEDIATE FUTURE

Be sure that your membership and VINTAGE AIRPLANE follows you Let us know at least two months in advance of your move

Send your change of address (include membership number) to

VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO BOX 3086

OSHKOSH WI 54903-3086

or call

1-800843-3612

35cent per word $500 minimum charge Send your ad to The Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oahkoah WI 54903-3086

Payment muat accompany ad VISAIMaaterCard accepted

AIRCRAFT 1938 WACO AGC-8 for sale - Originally owned by TWA with a very interesting history Phone Ivan Trofimov 513884-7172 or write 7700 Countyline Road N Brookville Ohio 45309 (9-1)

MISCELLANEOUS SUPER CUB PA-18 FUSELAGES - New manufacture STC-PMA-d 4130 chrome-moly tubing throughout also complete fuselage repair ROCKY MOUNTAIN AIRFRAME INC (J E Soares Pres) 7093 Dry Creek Rd Belgrade Montana 59714 406-388-6069 FAX 406388-0170 Repair station No QK5R148N

(NEW) This amp That About the Ercoupe $1400 Fly-About Adventures amp the Ercoupe $1795 Both books $2500 Fly-About PO Box 51144 Denton Texas 76206 (ufn)

GEE BEE - R-1 R-2 super-scale model plans used for WolfBenjaminS R-2 GB Z Bulldog Goon Monocoupe Culver Rearwin Updated enlarged (131416-124) PLANS on SHIRTSCapsl CatalogNews $400 refundable Vern Clements 308 Palo Alto Caldwell 10 83605 (c-994)

C-26 Champion Spark Plugs -orginal brass tip plugs for your Champ Cub Taylorcraft Stearman etc Military reconditioned $575 to $975 404478-2310 (c-1194)

DO YOU SAVE SPORT AVIATION

If youre like many EAA members you save your back issues of Sport Aviation as a personal resource library But how many times have you searched through a mile-high stack of magazines looking for one article only to find that issue damaged or worse yet missing End your worries and organize your Sport library with these new EAA Sport Aviation binders Store a complete years worth of Sport Aviation without worry These attractive high-quality binders are extremely durable and are available in deep blue with gold-colored lettering

BINDERS $995 each 3 for $2795 6 for $5295 (plus shipping)

Wis residents add 5 sales tax To order call

1-800-843-3612 or write

Sport Binder P O Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086

Popular Aviation Aero Digest Aviation Sportsman Pilot and other vintage aeronaushytical magazines from 1920s 1930s and 1940s Have several thousand available Also other 1915-1950 plane and pilot items Buy - sell - trade 44-page catalog airmailed to you $5 Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (10-4)

Sitka Spruce Lumber - Oshkosh Home Bldg Ctr Inc 414235-0990 Oshkosh Wisconsin (c-695)

Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome - Cole Palen Memorial - Foundation introduction and missing man formation flight - VHS format 41 min An indelible moment in time $2000 plus $350 shipping amp handling Check or Money order to Airborne Adventures Inc 6229 Poolsbrook Road Kirkville NY 13082 (12-4)

Wheel Pants - The most accurate replica wheel pants for antique and classics available on the market today 100 satisfaction guaranteed Available in primer gray gelcoat Harbor Ultra-Lite Products Co 1326 Batey Place Harbor City CA 90720 phone 310326-5609 or FAX 310530-2124 (ufn)

Restoring Building - Professional metal polishinglbuffing Props spinners struts etc Reasonable rates Let us save you time G Murphy 317552-8104 (10-1)

VIDEOS - TAILDRAGGERS AND FARMSTRIPS Piper J-3 and J-5 CUB display tailwheel flying and short field landing techniques $1995 A TIGERS TALE Fascinating story of the Tiger Moth biplane featuring Christopher Reeve flying with the exclusive Tiger Club in England $1995 THE GEE BEE AIRPLANES Documentary of rare film interviews of the Granville brothers Bob Hall and Pete Miller Extraordinary footage of Lowell Bayles crash and Jimmy Doolittle winning the Thompson Trophy $2495 WATshySONVillE FLY-IN Outstanding antique and classic video featuring Stearmans Wacos Stinsons Ryans and many more beautiful aircraft $2995 Order any 3 videos and receive a 10 discount plus our90 min preview tape FREE $475 SampH for one tape $1 for each addi tape Call 800-700-0747 Mail VC Marketing 40 Kitty Hawk East Richmond TX 77469 (TX Res add 7-114 tax) (c-12194)

WACO OWNERS - Tighten up that loose tail wheel with new bronze tail post bushings - WACO Part 8101 - set of 2 postpaid $65 Also available engine mount bushings for pre-1937 WACOs - Part 12611 - set of 16 Postpaid $115 Also interested in buying or trading WACO parts Jon Aldrich Airport Box-9 Big Oakflat CA 95305 phone 209962-6121 (11-2)

WANTED Wanted - Heywood starter system or any part thereof Will even accept the manual 215257-0817 (10-1)

Wanted - Complete serviceable prop hub for Ken-Royce 7-G Radial Gene 303279shy5782

30 OCTOBER 1994

Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation

Custom quality at economical prices_

bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes

Free catalog of complete product line

Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300

Qire~RODUCTS INC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115

LEXANDER EROPLANE COMPANY INC

Our Main Product is Service

bull Hardware

bull Airframe Parts bull Interiors amp Covering Materials

bull Presewn Fabric Envelopes

Call 1-800-831-2949 for a FREE Catalog and

Subscription to Aeroplane News

Ask about our Workshops 2-Full Days of Detailed Classroom

and Hands-On Instruction

for only $150

Your Choice Fabric Covering Composite Basics Welding or Sheet Metal Basics

L-________________________________~

PO Box 909 bull Griffin Go bull Fox 404-229-2329

5DrucingUp1heGoose

When it goes on display again the Spruce Goose will be sporting tough new fabric control surfaces by Poly-Fiber The AirVenture Museum people want them to last and Poly-Fiber will_ On the Goose and on your airplane too Watch for announcements of future Poly-Fiber builder workshops Find out how easy it really is to do it yourself

hfl Bflnchmark of Aircraft Fabric Covflring Systflms

Customer Service 800-361-3490 Other Stuff 909-684-4280

Post Office Box 3129 ffiImRive rside California 92519 Aircraft Coati gs

po box 468 madison north carolina 27025 (919) 427-0216

AWWA MEMBER

MEMBER

I ANI( PAINTINb AND REPAIRING

SANDLASTING TANK LINUS AND COATINGS PREVENTIVE TANK AINHNANCE INSPlCTiON SERVICE lADDU SAfETY toUIPENI

RESERvOIR LINERS AND ROOfS

DISMANTlING AND OVING TANKS

NEW USED AND RECONDITIONED TANKS

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

ON regar THE TOTAL SPORTS NETWORK

IAirs Monday Oct 17 10 pm EST I The Great Denver to Oshkosh Cross Country Race

bull The Worlds Greatest Airshow Pilots bull Supersonic Concorde bull Homebuilts Combat Jets

bull Dogfight With a Fighter Pilot and a Eleven-year-old Ace bull Apollo Astronauts bull World Record Attempt in Time-to-Climb bull World War II Fighters and Bombers bull Be a part of the largest

most unique aviation gathering in the world SPONSORED BY

EAAreg KING J

SCHOOLS T FLYING

CAviMco INSURANCE COMPANY

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