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VOL 31 NO6 JUNE 2003

2 VAA NEWSHG Frautschy

4 AEROMAIL

5 MYSTERY PLANE

6 JOHN MILLER RECALLS A UNIQUE FORCED LANDING IN 1934John Miller

8 8 RIBS ANYONE

How MANY ARE NEEDEDlTed Teach

10 SUN N FUN CELEBRATING FLIGHT

16 THE HOFFMEYER T-CRAFT JUST ANOTHER FORM OF THERAPY Budd Davisson

20 AIRCRAFT TIEDOWNS HG Frautschy amp Joe Dickey

22 THE VINTAGE INSTRUCTOR TAILDRAGGERS - HAVE YOU FLOWN A FORD LATELY Doug Steward

24 PASS IT TO BUCK

26 NEW MEMBERS

27 CALENDAR

29 CLASSIFIED ADS

Publisher TOM POBEREZNY Editor-in-Chief scon SPANGLER Executive Editor MIKE DIFRISCO News Editor RIC REYNOLDS Photography Staff JIM KOEPNICK

LEEANN ABRAMS TRISHA LUNDQUIST

Advertising Coordinator JULIE RUSSO AdvertisingEditorial Assistant ISABELLE WISKE Copy Editing COLLEEN WALSH

KATHLEEN WITMAN

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Executive Director Editor HENRY G FRAUTSCHY VAA Administrative Assistant THERESA BOOKS Contributing Editors JOHN UNDERWOOD

BUDD DAVISSON Graphic Designer OLIVIA L PHILLIP

FRONT COVER The brothers Hoffmeyer fly their dads resurrected Tayshylorcraft Ron Hoffmeyer rebuilt the airplane after it had been destroyed by a fire set by vandals It was selected as the Best Cusshytom Classic of Sun n Fun 2003

BACK COVER Seen in the light of dawn over the shoreline of Floridas Lake Hancock the Best Fabric Amphibian of Sun n Fun 2003 was Brad and Glen Larsons Cessna Airmaster mounted on a pair of Wipline amphibious floats VM photo by HG Frautschy EM Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

STRAIGHT Be LEVEL

I have been signing thank-you letters to be sent to members who have participated in the Friends of the Red Barn program for this year Once again many of our loyal members have chosen to help out and we re pleased to see some new members have also come on board This financial commitment by these members is much apprecishyated by the Vintage Aircraft Association and will enable us to better serve the total membership during our annual convention I would also like to say a personal thanks to these members I hope to see you all at Oshkosh this year

Having the Friends of the Red Barn fund has also given me the chance to discuss with members different subjects regarding the structure and operation of the Vinshytage Aircraft Association

Im often asked about the nashyture of the relationship between the Vintage Aircraft Association and the Experimental Aircraft Asshysociation Well in a nutshell heres how I view this subject

The Vintage Aircraft Association (VAA) is a Wisconsin corporation with its own bylaws and treasury It might be noted here that this is the case with the other two EAA divisions Warbirds of America and the International Aerobatic Club The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) is not an EAA division it is an affiliate organizashytion

The VAA has a letter of agreeshyment with the EAA as to how this relationship is carried forward on a daily basis The subjects of this agreement include the rendering of services to the VAA and what services VAA provides to EAA From

BY ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE PRESIDENT VINTAGE ASSOCIATION

EAAand VAA

the beginning of the division in 1972 we at the VAA (back then the Antiq ueClassic Division) agreed that to be a member of the division a member would also be a member of EAA This still applies today as well Its good for both parties Every time VAA gains a new member so does EAA That new member has access to the broader range of information and services that EAA can offer Strength in numbers also helps VAA particu larly with regard to government issues

Strength in

numbers also helps

VAA particularly with

regard to government

issues

By having a close working partshynership between VAA and EAA we bring EAA close to 10000 VAA members and VAA gives EAA a broader interest base wi t h memshybers interested in vintage airplanes EAA brings to VAA and VAA memshybers the support and voice of a larger membership-based organizashytion Membership in VAA gives members a common flag to rally aro und for a number of reasons including challenging over-regulashytion by the government technical issues and opportunities for socia l interaction at fly-ins and Chapter meetings This re lationship allows the VAA to play an important ro le during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh each year Our operation of the Vintage area of the convention

grounds gives each member both VAAer and the overall EAA memshybership the opportunity to see firsthand how much the VAA does to make yo u r stay for the week more en joyable Plus our presence at the convention serves to edushycate the public about our aircraft and the men and women who fly them We can only hope that in the future the VAA and EAA relashytionship wi ll remain as close as it has been during the past 32 years

Your Officers the Board of Dishyrectors HG Frautschy our Executive Director and Editor Theresa Books our VAA Adminisshytrative Assistant EAA Pres ident Tom Poberezny and all of the EAA staff continue to work hard to provide you the VAA member our best efforts to make being a VAA member a valued relationshyship As a member I ask each of you to ask a friend to join with us as a member so that he or she too can enjoy the VAA

As a final thought I would like to take a moment to express how proud I am of all of the mi li tary personnel of the United States and its coalition forces The bravery and commitment you have shown in your military mission and your dedication to the American people is without question the greatest I am proud to be an American

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

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VAA N EWS

VAA ELECTIONS In the center spread of this issue

youll find candidate biographies and a ballot for this years VAA elecshytions which will be ratified at the annual business meeting held durshying EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

Notice is hereby given that an anshynual business meeting of the members of the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association will be held on Monday August 4 2003 at 930 am CDT in the tent next to the VAA Red Barn Headquarters during the 51st annual convention of the Experimental Airshycraft Association Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconshysin Notice is hereby further given that the annual election of officers and directors of the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association will be conshyducted by ballot distributed to the members along with this June issue of Vintage Airplane Said ballot must be returned properly marked to the Ballot Tally Committee Vintage Airshycraft Association PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 and reshyceived no later than July 24 2003 The Nominating Committee subshymits the following list of candidates for vice president George Daubner for treasurer Charles W Harris for directors (eight total) David Benshynett Bob Brauer John S Jack Copeland Philip Coulson Roger Gomoll Dale A Gustafson Eugene E Morris and Wes Schmid

EAA AIRVENTURE PLANNING The Internet has allowed us to

streamline planning for your trip to EAA AirVenture Visit EAAs ofshyficial convention website at wwwairventureorg for up-to-date inshyformation regarding convention highlights and events including the 100th anniversary of flight celebrashytion A complete schedule of forums is also presented throughout the week New features and tools are being added to the website on a regular basis so be

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sure to check back often Also use the EAA Flight Planner to flight plan your trip You can access it through the VAA website at wwwvintageaircra(t01g

FRIENDS OF THE RED BARN We are pleased to announce that

many of you have responded to the VAAs annual appeal for help with funding VAA activities during EAA AirVenture In the July issue well be publishing a list of volunteers who have participated in the VAA Friends of the Red Barn Remember any funds sent and received prior to July I 2003 will be applied to the 2003 campaign and those received after that date will be placed in the fund for 2004 with any benefits then available during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2004

See page four for more details on the VAA Friends of the Red Barn

CALL FOR VAA HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS

If you wish to nominate an indishyvidual who you believe has made a significant contribution to the adshyvancement of aviation between 1950 and the present day please go to wwwvintageaircra(torgprogramsho(J ormhtml and download the nominashytion form Add supporting material and send it to

Charles W Harris VAA Hall of Fame PO Box 470350

Tulsa OK 74147-0350 Be as thorough and objective as

possible Attach copies of materials you deem appropriate and helpful to the committee

The person you nominate can be a citizen of any country and may be living or deceased The nomishynees contribution could be in the areas of flying design mechanical or aerodynamic developments adshyministration writing some other vital and relevant field or any comshybination of fields that support aviation To be considered for inducshy

tion into the VAA Hall of Fame durshying 2004 petitions must be received by September 30 2003

If youre unable to access the Inshyternet call VAA Administrative Assistant Theresa Books and ask her to fax or mail you a copy of the form She can be reached at 920shy426-6110

NOTICE OF ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING

In accordance with the fourth restated bylaws of the Experimenshytal Aircraft Association Inc (Article Seven Section I) Notice of all meetings shall be mailed by first class mail to each member or pubshylished in any publication of the corporation which is mailed to all members or to all families particishypating in a Family Membership Program and such notice shall be sufficient if the mailing is made at least twenty (20) days before the scheduled meeting

Notice is hereby given that the Annual Business Meeting of the members will be held at the Theshyater in the Woods on Sunday August 3 2003 at 100 pm (CDT) at the 51 st annual convention of the Experimental Aircraft Associashytion Inc Wittman Regional Airport Oshkosh Wisconsin

Notice is hereby further given that the election will be held as the first item on the agenda at the business meeting

Five Class II directors (three-year terms) and one Class III director (one-year term) shall be elected In accordance with the fourth reshystated bylaws of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc (Article Eight Section IV) II All nominees whether properly nominated by petition or by the Nominating Committee shall have their names presented to all members no later than sixty (60) days prior to the Annual Membership Meeting

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VAA VOLUNTEER INFORMATION FOR EAA AIRVENTURE 2003

EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2003 will be held at Wittman Regional Airshyport in Oshkosh Wisconsin from Tuesday July 29 through Monday August 4 Volunteers will again be needed to staff the many different committees in the Vintage area

If you are going to attend EAA AirVenture 2003 and would like to participate in activities as a volunshyteer drop a note to the chairperson of the area in which you would like to volunteer It would be helpful to the chairperson in his or her planshyning for the event if you could also include your previous experience or training and the dates of your arrival and departure

The following committees will use volunteer help

PAST GRAND CHAMPIONS Steve Krog 262-966-7627 sskrogaolcom

SECURITY and FLIGHT LINE Geoff Robison 260-493-4724 chief7025aolcom

TYPECLUBHQ Roger Gomoll 507-288-2810 rgomollhotmailcom

VAAPARKING George Daubner 262-673-5885 vaaflyboyaolcom

OTHER CONTACTS Teresa Lautenschlager Operation Protect Our Planes tlautenschlagereaaorg

Anna Osborn Volunteer Center annajohnktccom

Butch Joyce President 336-393-0344 windsockaolcom

HG Frautschy Executive Director 920-426-4825 hgfrautschyeaaorg

The Nominating Committee has submitted the following candishydates

Class II John Baugh Jack Harrington Verne Jobst Bob Reece Alan Shackleton Frank P Sperandeo III

Class III Paul D Seehafer Barry Valentine

Alan Shackleton Secretary EAA Board of Directors

GREAT WEBSITES Dave Bahnson is an avid pri shy

vate collector of World War I wooden airplane propellers and

he recent ly started a website wwwwoodenpropellercom dedishycated to that pursuit

The site contains information about identifying propellers as well as some facts about design and conshystruction Hes continually adding photos to the site to help others identify their propellers

Have you ever wondered just what was going on inside a roshytary engine while it was running So did Matt Keveney A mechanishycal engineer hes been fascinated with the workings of various powerplants To help him visualshyize the process he created web-based animations of both inshyternal combustion and steam engines Spend a few moments at wwwkeveneycom and enjoy the work Matt put into each of his anshyimated illustrations

PETER BOWERS Were sorry to report that Peter Bowers EAA 977 and VAA 7563 passed

away on April 27 2003 Its hard to categorize Petes contributions because his work was so wide ranging you hardly knew where hed pop up next An avid model airplane builder and designer as a young man he quickly took to full-size aircraft and spent 36 years as an aeronautical engineer at Boeing But there were plenty of other things to do and Pete wrote the arshyticles drew the plans and spoke on the subject he knew best-airplanes You may think of him as the designer of the Fly Baby winner of EAAs deshysign competition in 1962 Or perhaps youve read one of the dozens of authoritative books written by Peter over a half-century Petes paSSion was accuracy and many of us prevailed upon him to check out the facts on a little-known airplane or aviator He seemed to always have the right anshyswer and to know where to direct us for more information I cant recall anyone who knew more about airplanes than Peter Bowers did His freshyquent notes and contributions to Vintage Airplane and in particular our Mystery Plane column will be sorely missed Our condolences to his wife Alice and to his many friends and fans

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Young Eagles I received a very interesting and

pleasing Christmas gift from my granddaughter and I thought you might be interested Her fourth grade class had the usual project to write about their summer experiences To my surprise she wrote about her Young Eagles flight with me I didnt realize the flight made such a memorable imshypression I have enclosed a copy of her report As you can see the computer skills of my 9-year-old granddaughter are much better than mine

Bob Hollenbaugh Middletown Ohio

Up Up and Away

By Natalie Young

For my wonderful Grandpa The summer of2000 was a summer [ will

never forget We did a lot ofexciting things such as going to Canada and seeing Niagara Falls but one of the most memorable things we did that year was going to Ohio and visitshying my grandparents My grandpa is a pilot and owns a small yellow Aeronca Chief which he rebuilt himself My grandpa had inshyvited my sister Chelsea and me to take a ride in his plane

We went to the airport on a sunny clear day [ couldnt wait for him to take me up in his plane The small plane could only fit one passenger and the pilot so Chelsea and [ had to take rums [ went first

My grandpa took me all around the plane checking the parts to see if they were working right and showing me what they were He called it a safety check Finally he told me [ could climb in [ felt excited yet nervous as [ climbed into the plane My grandpa handed me a pair of headphones that kept out the noise but still let us talk to each other I pulled on my headphones and my seatbelt and we were off

We rolled down the runway for a short amount of time and then we took off into the sky It was so much fun [ looked out the winshydow amazed [ could see for miles I could see lakes and rivers and trees [ could see cars and houses and if[ looked really hard I could even see tiny people Once my grandpa even

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let me steer the plane [ liked it so much that when the plane landed [ asked if[ could go aga in the next day He said we could if the weather was okay

The next day we did go again even though it was a little cloudy and that time we even flew over their house We had another great flight and [ got a Young Eagles certificate

[ think that was the best summer Ive had so far

John Millers Poppy Drop I love those old stories of pilots

dropping stuff ou t of airplanes for whatever reason or occasion Apparshyently back in the olden days it was not a violation of any government regulations to do so I have come across many stories like John Miller and his Poppy Drop of 1928 in the April issue I have come across several similar tales most of them involving Curtiss Robins

In the Life and Times of Clarence Kavale an autobiography Kavale tells of his experiences as a barnstormer (1932-1936) in an OX-S Curtiss Robin He ranged from the Dakotas to Texas One of his tales involved beshying approached by a Pather of the Bride who asked Kavale if he would drop rice on the bridal couple as they exited the church Kavale could not turn down the money that was paid in advance figuring that if he blew the job he would just fly on He pracshyticed the day before the event in order to be sure of the territory To make a long story short everything went well until the couple emerged from the church Kavales ticket seller who was riding in the back seat empshytied the bag of rice into the slipstream only to see the wind carry the grain at least a block from the church Kavale flew on

When I was researching my book Shadows of Wings An Aviation History of West Central Illinois Vol [1910shy1945 I found another story in the Avon Sentinel a weekly of Avon Illishynois (Pop-700) Frank Clugsten was a local Chevrolet dealer who also had a Curtiss dealership He had a 40-acre airfield on the edge of town On the other side of town was a small prishyvate man-made lake where the towns snooty citizens had a club called Avondale Each Fourth of July they

held a celebration wherein they opened the facilities to the public and held the usual festivities appropriate to the occasion Someone came up with a fund raising idea that would help offset the expenses of the annual fireworks display The story involves guinea hens

The celebration committee sold tickets that contained various numshybers Certain numbers were attached to the legs of about a dozen guinea hens The tickets cost $1 each The idea was that Clugsten would fly his OX-S Robin low over the crowd at Avondale and a helper in the back seat would toss the guinea hens out the airplane for the onlookers to try to catch and retrieve their winnings As in the case of Clarence Kavale all went well until the cargo was released from the airplane The guinea hens were released from the airplane dishyrectly over the crowd who were supposed to catch the prizewinners with the numbers The guinea hens surprised the committee with their amazing ability to fly and the last anyone saw of them they were wingshying their way out of Fulton County

On a more somber note I was told a story similar to that of John Millers only this one did not involve any derring-do It had to do with releasshying rose petals over the cemetery as the bugler played taps at a Memorial Day ceremony held in Monmouth Illinois shortly after World War II The Monmouth Cemetery was on the approach to Runway 36 at Monshymouth airport at the time The ceremony took place near the apshyproach end of the airport thus [this flight] was no different than any other aircraft on final According to the pilot who told of this incident everything went according to plan As the bugler started to play the Piper Cub quietly slid over the gathering and the back-seat passenger dumped a bushel basket of rose petals on the gathered throng Some eyewitnesses were said to be in tears as the petals silently floated down to the moaning of the music

Enough said Jim Haynes

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BY HG FRAUTSCHY

MARCHS MYSTER Y ANSWER

The March Mystery Plane supplied to us by Alfred Fox of Gray Louisiana brought back a few memories for quite a few of you Heres our first letter with a bit of the history of Miles Aircraft and the Sparrowhawk

The Mystery Plane featured in the March edition of Vintage Airplane is a British aircraft one of the Miles designs Miles was a major producer of sporting light aircraft in Britain during the 1930s and for some time after the war

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In 1933 Fred Miles (known as EG) and his wife Blossom the design genius behind the partnership together with EGs brother George conceived a sleek low-wing monoplane design of allshywooden construction in direct competition to the contemporary bishyplanes of the time offering greatly enhanced performance and low cost

Unusually this first product the M2 Hawk powered by a 9S-hp upright fourshyin-line ADC Cirrus engine was built not by the Miles team itself but by a small firm Phillips and Powis Aircraft Ltd based at Woodley Aerodrome near Reading a town just a few miles west of what is now Londons Heathrow Airshyport The Miles design team eventually joined the company which was reshynamed Miles Aircraft Ltd in 1943 During the war Miles manufactured a range of training aircraft and set up an additional manufacturing facility near Belfast Northern Ireland

Most of Miles subsequent designs were named after raptors-Hawk Major (powered by the four-cylinder de Havilshyland Gipsy Major engine) Falcon Merlin Peregrine Hobby Nighthawk and more An exception was a one-off long-range aircraft to the basic Miles layout with a two-seat enclosed cockpit and powered by a Menasco Buccaneer commissioned by Charles Lindbergh for touring in Europe with his wife Miles named this design Mohawk in honor of his client and this actual aircraft has reshycently been restored for exhibition at Londons Royal Air Force Museum

Identification of the Miles aircraft featured is surprisingly difficult without a specific registration identity because many of the designs look superficially similar especially the many variants of the Hawk Major some of which were converted to Single-seat racing configushyration including also a special design powered by the 200-hp de Havilland Gipsy Six six-cylinder engine and called the Hawk Speed Six

However the short chord engine cowling identifies it as a Gipsy Majorshypowered model and a lowered fuselage decking suggests it is a Miles MS Sparshyrowhawk Close study of the picture appears to show large British-style regisshy

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

I t was a bright sunny mild and calm day January 26 1934 when I took off from Newark Airports gravelly surshy

face with a huge advertising banner to cover a specified course around the New York City area The 330-hp Wright engine had been overhauled only a few days before and I had full confidence that it would stand up under the hard tOwing job in the fairly cool air The aircraft was a Pitshycairn PCA-2 autogiro the forebear of todays helicopters and ideally suitshyable for the safe towing of banners It was my own aircraft I had no inshysurance It was simply not available in those days for that type of flying and even if it had been I could not have afforded it in the Depression which was still in full effect

The method of takeoff to tow a banner with an autogiro at that time was to lay it out on the ground with the last letter upwind and the first letter downwind then continue downwind with a 400-foot towing cord which was then attached to the release hook on the tailskid of the autogiro The takeoff was then made upwind directly over the banshyner so that gave 800 feet to get altitude and speed with the autogiro before the banner started peeling off of the ground This particular banshyner was the largest that I had ever seen towed It had 37 letters each one 9 feet high The letters were made out of red cloth and the nushymerous spreaders were made of bamboo poles I do not know its weight but it was plenty heavy and it took at least three men to carry 6 JUNE 2003

and unroll it To this day I dont

That banner inshy

stantly dragged me

to zero airspeed

dead stopped in

the air

know what it advertised That was normal for during a busy day of towing several banners in succession I had all I could do to re-fuel beshytween tows and study the road maps showing the routes I was to follow The banners did not belong to me I was merely towing them on conshytract by the hour

The takeoff went quite well in a light north breeze but the climb was laborious and slow with full power Flying north I finally reached 1200 feet altitude which put me only 1000 feet above the housetops of North Arlington New Jersey with another 800 feet to go to the specified altitude before turning 180 degrees to fly south along the east edge of the Hudson River to show the banner while circling Manshy

hattan Island I was carefully monitoring the enshy

gine cylinder head and oil temperatures and considering a slight reduction in power to try to get them down a little when the enshygine suddenly and positively stopped-dead still So did the airshyspeed That banner instantly dragged me to zero airspeed dead stopped in the air I knew that I had no hope for further power so I pulled the release lever to drop the banner to drape itself over the housetops of North Arlington Whatever hapshypened to it I know not to this day I suppose the kids tore it apart

When an autogiro engine stops and the autogiro stops dead in the air everything is silent and my autoshygiro entered a stable vertical descent at about 1800 fpm I heard my loud voice say Holy smoke and inshystantly I nosed down to gain a little airspeed for control at the same time looking quickly for some open place to land among all those houses There was no such space and by that time I was down to less than 700 feet above the houses but then behind me to the right I saw a cemetery so I made a 180 to head for it in a steep glide While doing this I heard a lot of factory whistles blowing but was too busy looking for a spot in the cemetery to realize that they were the customary noon whistles of that era Fortunately aushytogiros always make auto rotative landings and I had become very adept at that technique so was able to land on a tiny clear area in the cemetery at zero airspeed with

sands of hours of much of it by pilots who had no understanding of its aerodynamics or proper flying technique They crashed almost all

of them but walked away

tDI1IBgtlflnIIIn dimblng down from the cockpit to the ground I was surshyrounded by a mob of kids The

l~1tPl1il1illl mecnalntC had gotten the senations on top of each other instead of meshing properly When the engine got hot during the long climb the bolt expanded which let

autogiro was then in greater danger from them I was afraid it would be destroyed by the kids climbing on it

Then one kid yelled at me to aushytograph his school notebook and all the rest of them followed I sudshydenly remembered the proper procedure in such a case is to yell back at them to form a spiral around the autogiro so that I could write my autograph in turn A huge spiral of kids soon surrounded me and my precious autogiro while I autoshygraphed notebooks until the police arrived and chased them off to their homes for their lunches Remember how I said Holy smoke The landshying was made in the Holy Cross Cemetery a few seconds later

I had to hire off-duty policemen

the discs slip just enough to stop the engine We were able to push the autogiro to a little road trail through the cemetery and with a little breeze I took off in about 100 feet

In the first place I was very fortushynate to be flying an autogiro for an airplane brought to a sudden stop in the air by such a banner would instantly dive into the ground but an autogiro is still safe at zero airshyspeed and a controlled survivable crash can be made vertically even if there is not enough altitude to reshyga in a little airspeed to make a normal gentle landing

The early autogiros had each roshytor blade fixed both in position and pitch setting They had no collective or cycl iC pitch control as do helishy

without injury One notorious crash

was performed by Amelia Earhart who crashed into a chain-link fence then barely cleared over the heads of a crowd of people and crashed with full power into a group of parked cars fortunately vacant The autogiro and a number of cars were deshymolished but fortunately no fire occurred and she and her mechanic passenshyger walked away Now the only two surviving PCA-2s are in possession of the Henry Ford Museum and

Steven Pitcairn son of the original manufacturer

The one I owned serial number 13 was the first purchased by a prishyvate individual and first to be flown in each direction across the United States It was also the first rotaryshywing aircraft to perform aerobatics including loops and rolls at air shows the National Air Races 1932 at Cleveland at Los Angeles in 1933 the International Air Races 1933 at Chicago and many other smaller events Its final days were spent as a crop-duster but then it was deshystroyed by a hurricane in Florida when its pilot failed to tie down its rotor blades I had flown it safely crisscrossing the United States for six years 1931-1936 ~

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How many are needed TED TEACH

Jack Tiffany of Leading Edge Aircraft had been looking for an autogiro for years At last he found his prize a 1932 Pitcairn PA-18 in Mojave

California While Jack has been restoring antique airplanes for years this one was going to be the real test It was a basket case with most parts there but in very poor condition

It was a prize in that while antique autogiros are rare this was to be the only remaining PAshy18 Only 19 PA-18s were built and sold in 1932 and 1933

The autogiro differs from the he licopter in that it flies on the same principle as an airplane An engine-driven pro-

One of the sign ificant restorashytion challenges was the rotor blades themselves The construction is similar to many aircraft wings There is a spar (simply a steel tube) ribs of 14-inch plywood a thin plywood covered leading edge and a formed sheet metal trailing edge strip Conventional fabric and dope cover the structure

peller pulls it forward The finished ribs are ready for shipment and due to the oncoming air stream and the angle of attack of the rotors they rotate rapidly creating lift at a very low forward speed its simply a rotating wing

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The only salvageable component of the blades when received was the spar with rib attachment fittings With the rib spacing set at only 4

inches more than 300 ribs would be needed The precision needed was great as the chord is only 18-34 inches and rib depth about 2 inches

A local woodworker and aviation enthusiast Bill Weikert agreed to accept the challenge of building these ribs For earlier woodworking projects Bill had acquired an Onsshyrud Inverted Pin Router This type of machine was used in the aircraft industry for years mostly in the contouring of sheet metal skin and components

The inverted pin router has the motor driven bit mounted under the table and the bit raised up into the work with a foot pedal Operashytionally a template of the desired part is attached above and onto the material to be contoured This then is placed on the tabletop A guide pin of the same size as the router bit is directly above the bit The guide pin is lowered against the template the bit raised into the material and the pin guided around the template Thus the mashyterial is contoured to exactly the same shape as the template

The templates were made from 14-inch aluminum plate and comshyputer generated Bill then made a fixture that would attach the plyshywood to a plate that then attached to the master template With five different chord lengths using a common fixture to hold any of the

five was a productivity issue At the completion of the

project it was found that the cost of the rib shaping was far less than other methods (inshycluding laser cutting) and the accuracy to the work far better than the original

The inverted pin router is an ideal tool for shaping aircraft products in that it is qUick easshyily tooled and accurate Bill would be pleased to discuss this kind of project for others and may be contacted at

3000 Hampton Rd North Springfield OH 45502 937-964-8301 E-mail bgw3000junocom

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Routing ribs on the Onsrud Inverted Pin Router Attaching the rib material to fixture

The finished rib ready to remove from fixture

Attaching the rib template to fixture

Breaking the rib away

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2003 HG FRAUTSCHY

An aerial reconnaissance view of a portion of the vintage aircraft parking area

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This striking custom version of the early Bonanza color scheme was disshyplayed during the early days of Sun n Fun by James Dixon of Bowman Georgia

The winner of an Outstanding Classic Aircraft trophy at Sun n Fun 2003 Bob Haas has plenty to smile about with his neat-asshya-pin Aeronca 7AC Champ

Bob Haas

The Sun n Fun Grand Champion Antique for 2003 Is Mlkael Carlsons Bleriot XI powered by a 60-hp Thullnshybuilt Gnome Omega rotary engine It was one of 23 Blerlots built under license by Thulin In Sweden

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Paul Ericksons restoration of the last Sky King Cessna 310

N6817T pulled in a Contemporary Outshystanding In Type award at Sun n Fun

AEAA President Tom Poberezny hosts the opening of the Countdown to Kitty Hawk touring pavilion presented by Ford Motor Company The centerpiece of the pavilion is the accurate reproduction of the 1903 Wright Ryer built by Ken Hydes Wright Experience in Warrington Virginia The Ryers presence in the large tent was mesmerizing

Its hard to resist the call of a nice old biplane Dan Smith didnt have to travel far with his Brewster Aeet 7-he lives right

To get a firsthand feeling for what it felt like to pilot the Flyer EAA and Microsoft teamed up to create the Wright simulators which were very popular all day long

in Lakeland

The best fabric floatplane so judged at the Sun n Fun Splash-In was Stan Sweikars Taylorcraft BGS 120 which he flew down from Maryland Its seen here along the grassy shore at Browns Seaplane Base in Winter Haven Florida

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~ Thomas Lever brought his Moraine Saulnier 230 Et 2 to Lakeland for the last couple of days of the fly-in If it looks familshyiar to those of you who are aviation movie buffs that s beshycause this was the airplane used in the final scenes of The Blue Max and many years later in the Tom Selleck movie High Road to China One of only five that still exist and only one of three still flying Thomas Moraine even with its intimidating size is a tailskid no brakes airplane

1Registered to Barrels of Fun in Lebanon Missouri this Volpar V Beech 18 was judged the Best Twin in the Contemporary category

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The Rearwin 180F Skyranger (built by Commonwealth) is a rare sight these days but still a pretty airplane from the time just prior to World War II Doug Clukey of Dexter Maine brought this example to the event

AA family airplane it is and we saw a number of them at Sun n Fun with more than one tent pitched next to them The Cessna 170 is still one of the most desirable light planes that seat four people or two with a lot of camping gear Russ Farris and Shayla Reese are flying this nice-looking example

AVaughn Grasso of Oak Hill Florida brought a rare Helton Lark the last factory-produced version of the Culver Cadet Its powered by a Continental C-90

Can you tell whos an Auburn University fan John C Adams (class of 77 indusshytrial management) of Huntsville Alabama tools around in his Auburn Tiger Ercoupe His Coupe still has the original throttle V quadrant with mixture control

igt The other spectacular bookend to Mikaels early aviation airshycraft is his reproduction of a Thulin Tummelisa a Swedish fighter aircraft originally built in 1919 and in service as late as 1934 Mikael built the Tummelisa from scratch and was able to power the diminutive airframe with a 90-hp Thulin engine another powerplant built by the company under license this time from LeRhone

~ Roughing it at Sun n Fun Bringing the V comforts of home seems to get easier and

easier these days

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BY BUDD DAVISSON

s a breed Taylorcrafts are definitely coming into their own Even though they may have been one of the last

classics to hitch a ride on the restoration bandwagon more and more are showing up at fly-ins once aga in dressed in their Sunday-goshyto-meeting duds Ron Hoffmeyers 1946 BD-12D which was destined to be based on his farm in Evart Michigan is one of those However the little airplane had more than its share of lifes problems and the road it traveled to Sun n Fun 2003 was a rough one In fact both the airplane and Ron Hoffmeyer have stories to tell 16 JUNE 2003

Like so many others during the 1960s Ron was a member of the ROTC while in college at Michigan State He had opted to try for flight training which meant that during college he had to take thirty-five hours of flight training So even though he was bound for some sort of whiz-bang US Air Force airplane he took his first steps into the air in a Piper Colt A side effect of that kind of training was that rag and tube airplanes were central to his aeronautical core something that would surface many years later

As was the case with most pilots trained during that period it was only a matter of time before he found himself looking down at the jungles

of Vietnam However Ron had a great seat for the role he was about to play in the drama around him

When I graduated from flight school the usual pipeline was to fly one of the older airplanes then move up to the newer ones That changed just about the time I got my wings however because they put me right into an F-10S rather than having me work my way up through F-lOOs It was a terrific thrill to strap on a Thud Especially since I was a kid just out of flight school

I spent most of 68 and 69 flyshying out of Karat Thailand with the 34th Tactical Fighter Squadron carshyrying the war to North Vietnam against some of the heaviest deshy

fended targets We were always dodging SAMs MiGs and triple-A I flew a total of 146 missions

As soon as he got out of the servshyice he started flying light airplanes again although he stayed in the Air National Guard for 28 years

In 72 I started flying for Eastern Airlines but was also working my way up through the Guard and made it sort of a side career

As part of that side career Ron became the squadron commander of an air-refueling unit first flying KCshy97s and then moving into KC-13Ss

During the first Gulf War we were flying out of Abbu Dabe We were constantly up there as a gas stashytion in the sky keeping everything else flying

My son Paul started showing some interest in flying when he was

fifteen years old so I used the GI bill to get my CFI so I could teach him We started looking around for litshytle airplanes including Champs and Cubs but in 1984 we bought our first T-craft a 1941 and Paul learned to fly in it

We had a farm and the pasture was our runway which was perfect for the TshyCraft That was my first taildragger and I

really came to love it I still think the Taylorcraft is the most under-apshypreciated of the classics It gives good cross-country performance and is faster than almost all of the 6S-hp airplanes I think its a great all-purpose flying machine

That first airplane was Franklin powered and was very smooth and nice flying but over the years it had been neglected Rather than change the engine or rebuild the airplane we decided wed keep that one flyshying but get another one to rebuild Paul did that first one a 46 model and he put it in my name

In 1993 I started going through chemotherapy which grounded me for a while and was pretty hard on my spirits I had to get my head into something so I decided Id rebuild a Taylorcraft for therapy and put the

airplane in Pauls name Somehow that just seemed fair

Taylorcrafts are apparently someshything of a family tradition because when Ron started looking for a projshyect airplane he had to go no further than a cousins garage

My cousin had the remains of a TshyCraft and I say remains because it had been burned At some pOint in its life it was sitting in an open hangar

and kids set fire to it just for the fun of it By the time the fire department showed up the only parts that were still burnshying were the tires It was a terrible mess

Ron trucked what was left of the airshyplane home and spread it out on the shop floor to survey what he had

The wings were toast The spars were

charred and the alushyminum ribs were

crystallized The heat hadn t been too bad so all the fittings were useshyable but the tank was also no good

It was obvious he was going to have to build new wings but he didnt even have anything to use as an accurate pattern so he started from scratch

I bought some wings off a wreck that needed spars and a bunch of the ribs rebuilt These were truss type ribs not stamped aluminum and I knew I could make those fairly easily What made building new wings an easy decision was that I had an extra set of brand new PMAd spar blanks ready to be trimmed and drilled

When I started on the wings I got a regular rib building routine goshying There are fifteen ribs per wing and Id do a wing a month so I was actually moving fairly quickly

Most airplane spars are nothing but boards with bolt holes in the appropriate places Taylorcraft spars however are a little more complicated

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panel has a solid original feel but has

a few custom touches to suit

Rons taste

A lot of the spar bolts in a TshyCraft go through big phenolic bushings that are pressed into the spar to help spread the load I couldshynt find any new bushings and those I had were burned So once again we had to make the parts I used most of the steel fittings off the original wings but the aileron hinges came off the lawn-dart wings

The fire also warped the original wing struts so I had to make a new set I got some strut blanks from Univair I cut them and in about a week had the ends done and ready to have an approved welding shop TIG them together for me

Incidentally he says with a grin rebuilding a burned airplane isnt something Id do again and its defishynitely not something I recommend

Although the fuselage is largely steel that doesnt mean a fire doesshy18 JUNE 2003

nt wreak havoc with everything around it

All of the aluminum on the airshyplane was crystallized warped or melted I suppose I could have purshychased some of the sheet metal parts and saved myself a lot of time but I needed therapy so I built it all exshycept the nose bowl I rolled most of it but the bottom windshield lip was made out of dead-soft alushyminum and I stretch formed that

Obviously the fire eliminated the interior altogether and charred the floorboards so everything inside had to be new

Most of the interior is a light tan aircraft wool fabric over a thin foam which is attached to plastic or alushyminum backing The baggage compartment and seat sling came from AirTex For the seats side panels and glare shield I picked out the mate-

Back in the days before shielded plugs were widely available cans such as these were used with unshielded plugs to minimize radio interference These plug shields are pretty rare and gathshyering up a complete set of eight can be quite a challenge

rial and had an aircraft shop do the stitching and I did the installation

Originality is fine but for an airshyplane to be usable tOday the restorer has to deviate once in a while and this is usually in the area of radios and electrical systems However in Hoffmeyers airplane the deviations are hardly noticeable

The original Taylorcraft battery box is mounted ahead of the seats It is just the right size to mount a 12shyvolt motorcycle battery I use this to drive the nav lights and using an adapter it also powers my handheld radio and GPS I didnt try to put one of the old wind-driven generators on it because they slow you down about 5 mph in cruise I just attach a trickle charge to the battery when were not flying which works fine

The original instrument panel was also fire damaged so I found a beat-up instrument panel and welded patches in all the big holes Then I made up glove box doors in wood that matches the new floor boards

It goes without saying that the original instruments were totally

Ron Hoffmeyers sons David and Paul cruise along in their dads resurshyrected Taylorcraft

cooked in the fire so Ron had to do some high-end scrounging to fill the panel he had just made

I collected instruments for someshything like six years trying to get the right mix The oil temp is an origishynal with the Taylorcraft logo and the oil pressure gauge mag switch and airspeed are correct for the year of airplane I used a newer tachometer that has an hour meter in it and went to a three-pointer altimeter which needs to be really short in length to clear the fuel tank In genshyeral I think the panel has the right look to it

We finished the first Taylorcraft in dope but this time we went with Ceconite and SuperFlite s System 6 with urethane on top of that

liThe paint scheme isnt original but then we werent trying to build an original airplane We just wanted something that made us happy For that reason when we did the interior we styled it to match the outside

I also added a skylight which was done on a field approval This adds a lot of brightness to the inside and imshyproves visibility in turns

No part of the airplane escaped the fire which was constantly causing headaches right down to the wheels

liThe tires had burned hot enough that they actually melted the hubs and I had to find another set of origishy

nal wheels and brakes I was just glad the wheels werent fused to the axles

As Ron began working ahead of the firewall he found challenges that were even bigger than those beshyhind it

liThe cowling was hard but the aluminum heat shroud was the sinshygle hardest piece of the project Its formed in two pieces that were probshyably originally stamped at the factory I couldnt stamp them so I made a mold and formed the two halves into it They came out lookshying good and the heater works great The shroud alone took two months

II Although Im an A amp P you really cant do an airplane like this without friends and I had a couple of the best I built up both the engine and the wings at a friends house John Yost was not only my AI but also a friend and teacher He watched over and guided me every step of the way Unfortunately he suffered a fatal heart attack and never got to see the airplane finished

We started out with a pretty good engine but I went with a freshly overhauled crankshaft and cam because I was planning on takshying this airplane on a lot of cross countries In fact by the time we got to Sun n Fun which is a pretty long cross country in a Taylorcraft we had only fifteen hours on the enshy

gine Four hours of the trip was in light snow so we were sure glad to see the Florida sunshine

John Frieling another AI friend had done a lot of Taylorshycrafts and I went to him to help me with the covering and the paint He was a huge he lp and you learn so much faster when youre working with someone who has done it before Its diffi shycult to explain how much I learned from both John Yost and John Frieling I would never be able to thank them enough

When it came time to put a prop on the airplane I went with my heart not my head I knew a metal prop would give me more rpm and more performance but it just wouldnt feel right So I got a beautiful Sensenich wood prop Its so beautiful that my wife made me a prop cover for it to protect it when at fly-ins

liThe airplane spent five and a half years in my garage Some days Id make a lot of progress Some days none But I kept hacking at it and it was the best therapy I could have found

Ron did the first flight on the airshyplane and reports that it was nearly perfect with the wing rigging being almost right on After getting back from Sun n fun he did tweak one wing but that was it The little airshyplane accumulated 25 hours of flight time going to and from Lakeland

liThe little airplane cruises an honest 95 -100 mph which isnt bad for 65 hp and less than four gallons an hour

I was pushing hard to get the airshyplane ready to take to Sun Fun 2003 and barely made it However the airshyplane has been absolutely trouble free almost from the first time we fired it up I flew it a few hours and then we were ready to head south and escape what had been a bad winter Wed earned a little sunshine

Is he done restoring airplanes Hardly He says I think Id like to find an L-2M and restore it into its original military configuration

It looks as if Taylorcrafts have a way of becoming an addiction

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All sizes in inches unless otherwise noted Fabricate from drawing dimensions shydrawings not to scale

Tiedowns have always elicited a bunch of opinions and one of my favorites is a compact set of tiedowns that Joe Dickey built up to secure his Aeronca Champ Joe uses them to supplement permashynent tied owns at airports other than his home field and as a sole means of constraint when he is at a fly-in He has had good success with them having never had them pulled out of the ground or breaking The same cant be said for the dog anchor types of tiedowns which have opened up and broken while Joe was tied down at a fly-in (Remember the big blow at EAA Oshkosh 82) The set pictured in the doodles on these pages have been used sucshycessfully in both rocky and loamy soil and have proven to be very damage resistant Small rocks are pushed aside and impacting larger rocks or boulders results in a reshysounding ring when the rod is struck by the hammer When that happens just move the tiedown A few whacks with the hammer will straighten the steel stake out Just follow the dimensions shown on the drawings and remember to always tie your light plane downshyit helps when someone decides to run up a helicopter jet or even anshyother prop driven airplane with the wind blast pointed right at your pride and joy Having your tail surfaces strained through a chain link fence will ruin a pershyfectly good summer not to mention your checkbook

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IMPORTANT SPREAD TIEDOWNS SO PULL IS NOT STRAIGHT UP YOU LL NEED LONGER ROPES BUT ANGLING THE TIEDOWN POINTS WILL INCREASE THEIR RESISTANCE TO BEING PULLED OUT OF THE GROUND

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THIS IS A MODIFICATION OF JOES ORIGINAL DESIGN BY BION MCPEAK - ELIMINATE THE u BOLT AND ON A NEW SET OF BASE PLATES CAREFULLY RADIUS THE NEW HOLE FOR THE ROPE TO PREVENT CHAFING THE HOLE SHOU LD BE A TIGHT FIT FOR THE ROPE KNOT THE ROPE AS SHOWN ON THE BACKSIDE OF THE BASEPLATE MELT OR GLUE THE KNOT TO BE SURE IT WILL NOT COME UNDONE THIS BASEPLATE IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR USE WITH POLYETHYLENE ROPE

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THE VINTAGE INST UCTOR

Taildraggers

W ould you want to fly a Ford Tri-Motor if you had the

chance Sue Strehlow NAFI proshygram administrator asked gently nudging me in the ribs while her eyes twinkled even more brightly than they normally do My answer had something to do with what bears do in the proverbial woods

It was opening day of AirVenture 2002 and I had just been made an offer I couldnt refuse The reason I instruct in taildraggers is because I love flying them so much And now the opportunity to fly one of the 22 JUNE 2003

DOUG STEWART NAFI MASTER INSTRUCTOR

greatest taildraggers of all time had just become mine Do they call this pig heaven

At the appointed hour I boarded the shuttle van near the tower and rode out to runway 09 We waited in the van as that beautiful corrushygated airplane (beauty is in the eye of the beholder) taxied off the runshyway and onto the grass It was only as it got on the grass that the gear struts finally started to compress and as the 3-foot-thick wing gave up the lift it was still generating After the wonderful rumble of three round Pratt amp Whitney Rshy985 450-hp engines quieted from

three to two the passengers on the Ford airplane deplaned as we climbed out of the Ford van

I was the first of our group to board and I quickly went uphill to the cockpit Sitting in the left front seat was Sean Elliott not only presshyident of NAFI but also EAAs director of aircraft operations He had been my ticket to the right front seat which I now settled into Hanging my elbow out the open window to my right (hey this wasnt too unlike my Super Cruiser) I was in awe as I took in the sights and smells of this hisshytoric airplane

Once the remaining nine passhysengers were boarded Sean fired up the right engine and called for taxi We taxied to runway 09 and awaited takeoff clearance Getting that we pulled out onto the runshyway and applied takeoff power It seemed that as soon as the throtshytles were all the way forward Sean was pushing forward on the wheel (it is a wheel-a huge wooden steering wheel also found on Ford Model Ts) and the tail was up in the air With a short takeoff roll of less than 700 feet we were up in the air This old bird just wanted to fly Im talking about the airplane not me

We climbed out towards Lake Winnebago and Sean leveled off at 1000 feet AGL Accelerating to 90 mph indicated he set the power and trimmed it up Turning toshywards me he said Youve got it I had not expected to be flying this rare beast let alone with a cabin full of paying passengers If it drops a wing dont try to raise it with the aileron use your feet Sure enough we hadnt flown very far when the right wing started to drop As instructed I let the wheel be and applied pressure to the left rudder pedal The rudder pedals in this huge taildragger are humonshygous when compared to the small bars in my PA-12 And I quickly reshyalized why This was going to take a little more than some ankle deshyflection In fact it took the strength of my entire leg to push hard enough on the rudder pedal to pick the wing up And Sean had said use my feet hah by the time we were lining up back on fishynal my thighs were starting to ache (And I ride a bicycle regushylarly) Take a look at Seans thighs he could pass for an Olympic sprinter and I think its all from his Tri-Motor time Hmmm Use your feet

Which brings me to the point of this article Which is what we learn when flying aircraft with the little wheel in the back Conventional geared tailwheel tail dragger

call them what you will flying these aircraft will redefine what flying is all about for most pilots We are going to have to use our feet when flying these airplanes Not only in the air but more imshyportantly on the ground

Conventional geared

tailwheel taildragger call them what

you will flying these aircraft will

redefine what flying is all about for most pilots

It is said that when flying a tailwheel airplane youre not done flying until the engine is shut down and the tiedown ropes are attached The most important lessons to be learned when opershyating a taildragger are those lessons learned on the ground Esshypecially when the wind is blowing A tail wheel airplane has its center of gravity located beshyhind the main gear

When conducting ground opershyations-most notably when rolling out during landing but at all times even when taxiing slowlyshywhenever there is any sideload such as when there is a crosswind this rearward CG will aid and abet that side force in trying to make the tail swap ends with the nose

This is avoided by deft use of

our feet applying opposite rudder to direction of swing to keep the aircraft tracking straight Once that tail starts swinging it gets harder and harder to stop If the pilot does not react quickly enough the rudder will become ineffective and they will need to use some brake as well And if not quick enough with the brake the pilot will get to experience a ground loop If the groundspeed is on the fast side when this happens one can expect to damage the airshyframe and perhaps the landing gear as well

The other place we get to use our feet in most tail wheel aircraft is in coordinating our turns The ailerons of most taildraggers are rather large Whenever they are deflected the drag they create results in adverse yaw that is much greater than that experienced in most tri-gear airshycraft Therefore whenever you roll into or out of a turn in a convenshytional geared airplane you will experience one heck of a slip unless you coordinate the turn with suffishycient rudder

The reasons that people elect to fly taildraggers are numerous but all are valid For some it affords the ability to fly low and slow allowshying one to smell the roses so to speak (Although here in the dairy region of New England it isnt alshyways roses one smells) For others it is the only type of aircraft that can be used to access rough surshyfaced andor remote runways Still for others it brings their mentality back to an earlier age of aviation when flying was not about ATC and GPS autopilots and glass cockshypits TFRs and FARs but about stick and rudder skills and being totally connected in a visceral way to the aircraft being flown And for all it will mean using your feet

No matter what your reason learning to fly a tailwheel airplane will certainly improve your skills in any airplane that you fly taking you another step from being more than just a good pilot to being a GREAT pilot


PASS IT TO BUCK BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5

PO Box 424 UN ION IL 60180

Stowaways Freeloaders and Other Culprits

One day more than a few years ago Dorothy and I were puttin along in our old 6SLA Chief when she

tapped my shoulder and pOinted to the wing root

There peering out at us was a cute little brown and white mouse

How long the rascal had been there I dont know but there it was seemingly enjoying the ride It would disappear for a while show up again and seemed quite active We delivered it to the AAA fly-in at Ottumwa That was a long time ago

The mystery was where did he come from and howd he get in Fully aware that mice can be a problem I tossed a supply of oldshyfashioned mothballs back into the rear of the fuselage and a few more under the seat sling

I dont believe that mouse had read the publication I had which said mothballs were a deterrent to mice

The odor and the residue linshygered for a long long time afterwards We never uncovered the wing before we sold the airshyplane so I didnt see any damage just half a bushel of nesting mateshyrial-highly odiferous at that

Another time and many years later I stopped off at a friends hangar to visit He was working on a Stearman project on one side of the hangar and had a Bonanza as his go places airplane on the other side

Something about the Bonanza caught my eye There were cloves of garlic lying atop the tires and get this fences of aluminum sheet 24 JUNE 2003

circling each of the tires He had actually built a circular barrier about six inches or more high around each wheel

When asked he dropped a few expletives about mice and how hed had a problem with them getshyting into the upholstery this was his method to prevent a reoccurshyrence Did it work I dont know but Ive never seen anyone do anyshything like it since

Weve also heard that dryer sheets the kind that are supposed to make your cloth es soft repel the four-legged critters Anyone have experience with that

Another airplane this time a Stinson L-SE we brought home to Illinois from Denver After we got it home we decided to do an anshynual Again the remnants of a hitchhiking mouse maybe a whole family of them We must have pulled two bushel baskets of nest and debris out of the left wing Now this is a wood wing and the stains and the odors were there to the day we sold the airplane

These invasio n s seem to be pretty prevalent I dont know what the antidote really is but it s a recurring problem here in the midwestern part of the country

Im working on a pair of Champ wings These guys had been hangshying on a dirt floor hangar wall for several years (Our Champ is getshyting pretty tired and is almost but not quite because we like to fly ready for another restoration) Anyshyway I saw these wings and thought that maybe I could get a little ahead of the restoration game by redoing

them and have them ready to bolt on when we did the restoration I talked to the owner and we struck a deal A week or so later we picked them up along with some rusty but restorable tail feathers and some other little items

We opened them up and there they were Mouse nests and remshynants mud-daubed wasp nests spiders and who knows how many other little buggers who had built themselves a real comfortable condo site We even found some nutshells that ground squirrels had put there

Now how did these guys get up a sheer wall maybe five or six feet above the floor I sure dont know but the evidence was sure there It was a below freezing day when we brought them into the heated hangar and it sure wasnt long beshyfore we knew we had to do something The odor was terrific

We lucked out though there must have been an adequate food supply cause they didn t gnaw on the spars The woodwork was inshytact and aside from being dirt encrusted it is in good shape Our editor HG can relate his tale of woe as to how his Chief spars were just ravaged by these little guys gnawing on them Ask him about it and then get the crying towel handy (Amen Boo Hoo - HGF)

It isnt just the wood and fabric machines these hitchhikers are apt to get into Just the other day doshying an annual on a Cessna 120 there was a huge collection of mouse nest and dirt under the floor in the gearbox area Ive seen

residue in Mooneys Piper Cheroshykees Howard DGAs Stearmans You name it It is a problem How do we keep them out How do we get rid of them if theyre in You cant just poison them then they die in the nests or in the upholshystery and create a very unpleasant stink You can shake the wing blow compressed air at them maybe even chase them out but theyre back again because this is their home

My theory is prevention I took a tip from a farm neighbor When he plants his corn crop hell put out a sacrificial token Every thirty feet or so hell toss out an ear of corn This is easy pickings for mashyrauders like the crows and ground sqUirrels and they ll go for the easy ears and not bother the plantshy

ings I thought this was really clever and decided maybe it d work for hangar prevention too So I went to the local hardware store years ago and purchased one of those live traps Its a two-door job where they can get in but cant get out I bait it with cat food or birdseed sit back and wait About every four of five days I take the trap and if there are some I dump the mice into a bucket of water reshybait the trap and do it again I guess Im lucky as I havent had an intrusion of these critters in any of my airplanes for several years now

Sometimes I run out of mice too Just last week and I must admit I hadnt looked at the trap for several weeks maybe months and there were the remains of seven mice and

one very live one in the trap What prompted this check was the Cessna 120 I mentioned earlier

Another preventive measure Dont leave anything in the airshyplane that might be used for nesting material They love paper towels rags (They dont seem to bother sectionals maybe its the government red tape) and whatshyever you do dont leave anything edible in any compartment That is an open invitation to a critter smorgasbord

So far Ive been lucky I would like to hear from any of you victims or not as to how and what you have experienced and what action you are taking or contemplating And with that its over to you If

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tration letters under the port wing and possibly a vestigial N number under the tailplane Could this be NC191M (ex GshyADWW) before the original open cockpit was enclosed and faired with a raised decking back to the fin Imshyported into the United States to Hyattsville Maryland in 1936 she came to grief at Palm Beach Florida in 1959

Mike Vaisey Little Gransden Airfield Nr Cambridge England

From one of our most experienced members we have this recollection

The March Mystery Plane is the Miles M-5 Sparrowhawk Built in Great Britain by Phillips and Powis Aircraft it particishypated in the Kings Cup race in the 30s It was a smaller version of the wellshyknown Miles Hawk and was powered by a de Havilland Gipsy Major of 130 hp Registered as NC-191M it was the former G-ADWW under British registry

I first saw this aircraft at the old Queens Chapel Airport in Washington DC in the late 30s where it was unshydergoing restoration In the summer of 1946 it was sold by Perry Boswell to Carl Conrad of Romney West Virginia who hangared it at Bakers Air Park in Burlington West Virginia It was later stored at the nearby Keyser West Virshyginia airport In the early 50s it was resold to Boswell and wound up in southern Florida It was later reported to have crashed while being flown by anshyother pilot who suffered fatal injuries and the aircraft was destroyed

I first flew the Sparrowhawk in Sepshytember 1946 while employed at Bakers Air Park and during the next three years I made about 30 additional flights in it Most were of short duration with a few aerobatic demonstrations at local air shows and fly-ins

We had a Waco UEC at Burlington for passenger hops and an occasional charter trip In May 1947 we were in need of engine parts for the Waco which were located in Springfield Massshyachusetts I flew to Springfield in the Sparrowhawk picked up the parts and


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I have been signing thank-you letters to be sent to members who have participated in the Friends of the Red Barn program for this year Once again many of our loyal members have chosen to help out and we re pleased to see some new members have also come on board This financial commitment by these members is much apprecishyated by the Vintage Aircraft Association and will enable us to better serve the total membership during our annual convention I would also like to say a personal thanks to these members I hope to see you all at Oshkosh this year

Having the Friends of the Red Barn fund has also given me the chance to discuss with members different subjects regarding the structure and operation of the Vinshytage Aircraft Association

Im often asked about the nashyture of the relationship between the Vintage Aircraft Association and the Experimental Aircraft Asshysociation Well in a nutshell heres how I view this subject

The Vintage Aircraft Association (VAA) is a Wisconsin corporation with its own bylaws and treasury It might be noted here that this is the case with the other two EAA divisions Warbirds of America and the International Aerobatic Club The National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI) is not an EAA division it is an affiliate organizashytion

The VAA has a letter of agreeshyment with the EAA as to how this relationship is carried forward on a daily basis The subjects of this agreement include the rendering of services to the VAA and what services VAA provides to EAA From

BY ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE PRESIDENT VINTAGE ASSOCIATION

EAAand VAA

the beginning of the division in 1972 we at the VAA (back then the Antiq ueClassic Division) agreed that to be a member of the division a member would also be a member of EAA This still applies today as well Its good for both parties Every time VAA gains a new member so does EAA That new member has access to the broader range of information and services that EAA can offer Strength in numbers also helps VAA particu larly with regard to government issues

Strength in

numbers also helps

VAA particularly with

regard to government

issues

By having a close working partshynership between VAA and EAA we bring EAA close to 10000 VAA members and VAA gives EAA a broader interest base wi t h memshybers interested in vintage airplanes EAA brings to VAA and VAA memshybers the support and voice of a larger membership-based organizashytion Membership in VAA gives members a common flag to rally aro und for a number of reasons including challenging over-regulashytion by the government technical issues and opportunities for socia l interaction at fly-ins and Chapter meetings This re lationship allows the VAA to play an important ro le during EAA AirVenture Oshkosh each year Our operation of the Vintage area of the convention

grounds gives each member both VAAer and the overall EAA memshybership the opportunity to see firsthand how much the VAA does to make yo u r stay for the week more en joyable Plus our presence at the convention serves to edushycate the public about our aircraft and the men and women who fly them We can only hope that in the future the VAA and EAA relashytionship wi ll remain as close as it has been during the past 32 years

Your Officers the Board of Dishyrectors HG Frautschy our Executive Director and Editor Theresa Books our VAA Adminisshytrative Assistant EAA Pres ident Tom Poberezny and all of the EAA staff continue to work hard to provide you the VAA member our best efforts to make being a VAA member a valued relationshyship As a member I ask each of you to ask a friend to join with us as a member so that he or she too can enjoy the VAA

As a final thought I would like to take a moment to express how proud I am of all of the mi li tary personnel of the United States and its coalition forces The bravery and commitment you have shown in your military mission and your dedication to the American people is without question the greatest I am proud to be an American

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

VINTAGE AIRPLANE

VAA N EWS






JUNE 2003


















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2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


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~~8 AERO M A IL




Up Up and Away

By Natalie Young






JUNE 2003












4

BY HG FRAUTSCHY








NORTH CAROLINA







OF VINTAGE AIRPLANE









LINE







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5





That banner inshy

stantly dragged me

to zero airspeed

dead stopped in

the air




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7








JUNE 2003










8





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


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13 32 DIA (2)


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~~~


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26 JUNE 2003


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0003



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or call 800-517-9278














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~~8 AERO M A IL




Up Up and Away

By Natalie Young






JUNE 2003












4

BY HG FRAUTSCHY








NORTH CAROLINA







OF VINTAGE AIRPLANE









LINE







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5





That banner inshy

stantly dragged me

to zero airspeed

dead stopped in

the air




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7








JUNE 2003










8





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










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~~~


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Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


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0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














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BY HG FRAUTSCHY








NORTH CAROLINA







OF VINTAGE AIRPLANE









LINE







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5





That banner inshy

stantly dragged me

to zero airspeed

dead stopped in

the air




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7








JUNE 2003










8





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

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~~~


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Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































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0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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28 JUNE 2003






















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1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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30 JUNE 2003










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Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31



















That banner inshy

stantly dragged me

to zero airspeed

dead stopped in

the air




















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7








JUNE 2003










8





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

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~~~


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Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


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JUNE 2003










8





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21


Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

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Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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30 JUNE 2003










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Great Holiday Gifts

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800-362-3490







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JUNE 2003










8





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21


Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

fchldrconnectcom



photopilotaolcom



davecpctiquestnet



copeland1junocom


Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

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Blaine MN 55449 763-786-3342

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dalefayemsncom



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Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21


Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

fchldrconnectcom



photopilotaolcom



davecpctiquestnet



copeland1junocom


Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

rcouisonSl6cscom


Blaine MN 55449 763-786-3342

pledgedrivemsncom



dalefayemsncom



dinghaoowcnet


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

shschmldmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31















2003 HG FRAUTSCHY


o JUNE 2003



Bob Haas








in Lakeland


12 JUNE 2003

()




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13







easier these days

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

BY BUDD DAVISSON































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17



Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21


Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

fchldrconnectcom



photopilotaolcom



davecpctiquestnet



copeland1junocom


Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

rcouisonSl6cscom


Blaine MN 55449 763-786-3342

pledgedrivemsncom



dalefayemsncom



dinghaoowcnet


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

shschmldmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


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WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


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easier these days

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

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ampAVIONICS






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1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














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800-362-3490







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Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


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BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










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TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


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Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







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26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














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Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31






































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Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

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TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


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Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







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26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

















Rons taste





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


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Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31





































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19





WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


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Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

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Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31



















WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21


Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

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antJquerinreachcom


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Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

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Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

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Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

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Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31

















WI NG PLATE - 2 REQ


1-1 8 R

13 32 DIA (2)


OR TO FIT


j_1--- 9 32 0 (2) j I 4 2 ~I

BASE PLATE ASSEMBLY










I I I

I I 1-1 ~

TO REMOVE PINS




~~~


VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21


Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

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ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

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Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

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Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

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Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

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Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31
















Taildraggers













Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

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photopilotaolcom



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Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

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Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

shschmldmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31



















Conventional geared










































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

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photopilotaolcom



davecpctiquestnet



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Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

rcouisonSl6cscom


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Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

shschmldmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31













































(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

fchldrconnectcom



photopilotaolcom



davecpctiquestnet



copeland1junocom


Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

rcouisonSl6cscom


Blaine MN 55449 763-786-3342

pledgedrivemsncom



dalefayemsncom



dinghaoowcnet


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

shschmldmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31






















(( -BtJck







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25


26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













antJquerinreachcom


Cannon Falls MN 55009 507-263-2414

fchldrconnectcom



photopilotaolcom



davecpctiquestnet



copeland1junocom


Lawton MJ 49065 269-624-6490

rcouisonSl6cscom


Blaine MN 55449 763-786-3342

pledgedrivemsncom



dalefayemsncom



dinghaoowcnet


Hartford WI 53027 262-966-7627

sskrogaolcom




Roanoke TX 76262 817-491-9110

n03captf1ashnet


Stoughton WI 53589 608-877-8485

daraprilairecom




Wauwatosa WI 53213 414-771-1545

shschmldmilwpccom

DIRECTORS EMERITUS



buck7acmcnet



































30 JUNE 2003










Rave Reviews








Great Holiday Gifts

bull Witll




800-362-3490







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 31
















26 JUNE 2003


FLY-IN CALENDAR
















































VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

0003



1-800-WORKSHOP 1-800-967-5746

sportaireaaorg








ampAVIONICS






28 JUNE 2003






















VINTAGE TRADER








1-800-645-7739






or call 800-517-9278














8007946560











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT













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VOL. 31, NOmembers.eaavintage.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/... · 6/6/2003 · FRONT COVER: The brothers Hoffmeyer fly their dad's resurrected Tay lorcraft. Ron Hoffmeyer rebuilt