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March 2013 March MEETING WHEN: WHAT’S FLYIN’ THIS WAY !!! WHAT FLEW BY !!! Thursday 14th at 7 pm WHERE: FISHER COMMUNITY CENTER PROGRAM: Joe Latham F4 Phantom II •President Paul Adams 2144L Marsh Ave. Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-753-6222 [email protected] •Vice President David Cheung 703 W. Main St. Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-751-9785 [email protected] •Sec/Treas Dave McCurry 5 Valley View Rd. Marshalltown, IA 50158 641-752-4729 [email protected] •Newsletter Editor Corey Butcher 2940 Arney Ave State Center, IA 50247 641-493-2415 (hm) 515-331-2943 (wk) [email protected] Our next meeting will be held at the Fisher Community Center in Marshalltown on Thursday March 14th at 7pm. Chapter member, Joe Latham, who is a former F4 Phantom II pilot, attended PHANCON 12, the yearly convention of the F4 Phantom II Society. He has some good stories to tell and some pictures to share from the event of last October. Don’t forget we will gather at Taco John’s around 6pm for the pre-meeting meeting which consists of greeting and eating. Gary Nablo opened up his Taylor Monoplane Skunk- werks (garage) so we could all gander at his progress and get an update. In a nut- shell, he has most all sys- tems finished and is nearly ready to start the covering process. Gary’s work is impressive to say the least with lots of little ingenious innovations. More pictures inside. Joe and Jana Latham pose beside “HIS” airplane while attending the F4 Phantom Society convention held at Holliman AFB in New Mexico last October. (Photo from www.f4phantom.com)

•Sec/Treas WHAT FLEW BY · is a collector of WWI homebuilts. He has over twenty WWI replica aircraft including a Spad, a Sopwith Camel, a Bleriot, a Pfaltz, a few Fokkers, two Eindeckers

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Page 1: •Sec/Treas WHAT FLEW BY · is a collector of WWI homebuilts. He has over twenty WWI replica aircraft including a Spad, a Sopwith Camel, a Bleriot, a Pfaltz, a few Fokkers, two Eindeckers

March 2013

MarchMEETING

WHEN:

WHAT’S FLYIN’ THIS WAY !!!

WHAT FLEW BY !!!

Thursday 14th at 7 pm

WHERE:FISHER

COMMUNITYCENTER

PROGRAM:Joe Latham

F4 Phantom II

•President

Paul Adams2144L Marsh Ave.Marshalltown, IA 50158641-753-6222

[email protected]

•Vice President

David Cheung703 W. Main St.Marshalltown, IA 50158641-751-9785

[email protected]

•Sec/Treas

Dave McCurry5 Valley View Rd.Marshalltown, IA [email protected]

•Newsletter Editor

Corey Butcher2940 Arney AveState Center, IA 50247641-493-2415 (hm)515-331-2943 (wk)[email protected]

Our next meeting will be held at the Fisher Community Center in Marshalltown on Thursday March 14th at 7pm. Chapter member, Joe Latham, who is a former F4 Phantom II pilot, attended PHANCON 12, the yearly convention of the F4

Phantom II Society. He has some good stories to tell and some pictures to share from the event of last October.

Don’t forget we will gather at Taco John’s around 6pm for the pre-meeting meeting which consists of greeting and eating.

Gary Nablo opened up his Taylor Monoplane Skunk-werks (garage) so we could all gander at his progress and get an update. In a nut-shell, he has most all sys-tems finished and is nearly ready to start the covering process. Gary’s work is impressive to say the least with lots of little ingenious innovations. More pictures inside.

Joe and Jana Latham pose beside “HIS” airplane while attending the F4 Phantom Society convention held at Holliman AFB in New Mexico last October.(Photo from www.f4phantom.com)

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CALENDAR

www.eaa.org/calendarwww.FunPlacesToFly.comwww.flyins.com www.iawings.com/calendar/yearly.htm

Visit your Chapter 675 website!www.eaa675.org

For those of you on the internet, all of the information for aviation events are available in many places. Links to the websites that have all the info you need are listed below. If you do not have internet access, and a specific event you are interested in is not listed in the newsletter, just call me and I will be happy to look up the info for you.

Date Time Where WhatMar 14 7pm FCC/T F4 Assoc. Holloman AFB Joe LathamMar 16 11am-1pm Council Bluffs Great Plains Wing CAF Chili Fly-in

Apr 6 11am-2pm Fort Dodge Chili Fly-inApr 9-14 Lakeland, FL 39th Annual Sun N Fun Int’l Fly-in & ExpoApril 11 7pm FCC/T Miniature Engines Gary Kirchgatter

FCC – Fisher Community Center

T – Taco’s Johns at 6:00 before the meeting

INTERESTING LINK OF THE MONTH

Courage of misfit pilots during World War I...Watch full screen and on your big screen if possible. 20 minutes long. You won’t regret it.

http://vimeo.com/59376506

Pay your dues. Still only $10 yearly!

-S.J. Wittman Birthday Celebration- Pancake Breakfast

April 13, 2013 7:30 – 11:00 A.M.

Adults $6.00*Children under 10 - $3.00

* Free for pilots of homebuilt aircraft who fly in.

Sausage, Scrambled Eggs, Milk, Juice, or Coffee, and all you can eat Pancakes!

Wittman Airport Terminal 20th St. Oshkosh, WIATIS – 125.9, TWR 118.5

FREE AIRPLANE RIDES! (EAA Young Eagles) For kids ages 8 – 17,

9:00 to 11:00 A.M. weather permitting

Aircraft on Display!

Learn the story of aircraft designerand race pilot S.J. Wittman.

Presentation at 9 A.M.

Hosted by EAA Chapter 252and Wittman Regional Airport

Oshkosh, WI [email protected]

www.EAA252.org

Wittman Airport - Oshkosh

CONGRATULATIONS DOUG BOYD!

Doug made a two page article in the March issue of Sport Aviation about building his Waiex and the first flight. Page 90.

Now on FACEBOOKwww.facebook.com/EaaChapter675

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MORE GNOME TALK

Paul Adams

I am beginning to think that I am awestruck with the Gnome radial aircraft engine. Every time I see something in writing about that style of engine I stop and read the entire article. The latest is an article I recently saw in the Air and Space magazine, and since it had to do with homebuilts I just had to relate a part of the story. In the state of California in a small town (I believe it is small) there is a person, Javier Arango, who is a collector of WWI homebuilts. He has over twenty WWI replica aircraft including a Spad, a Sopwith Camel, a Bleriot, a Pfaltz, a few Fokkers, two Eindeckers etc. His belief is authenticity, and this is where the Gnome connection comes in. A LeRhone engine is a later version of the Gnome. Back in the early 1900’s theses two engines were built the same way. They were machined from billets. It turns out Javier wants ten LeRhone engines to feed his WWI aircraft fetish, therefore he is having a local

friend in Paso Robles, California machine him some. What amazed me was they have returned to the 1900’s method of making them, machining them from billets. In the picture you will see actually eleven casings. These eleven casings represent a finished weight of 415 pounds (35 pounds each). They started with a billet of 650 pounds for each casing (a total of 7150 pounds) and make 6735 pounds of chips or scrap!!!! Now that’s some serious commitment to authenticity! The 90 cylinders are to be made in New Zealand on a CNC machine again starting from billets. We know the weights of these parts, but not the time involved, thus maybe the decision to use a CNC.

Machinist Richard Galli has been building LeRhone engines from scratch (crankcases above) for the Arango collection aircraft.

The Arango Collection

The Eindecker built to original specs.

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Unidome Flying Funby Garry Brandenburg

Here is the follow up with the results of the Chapter 675 fight study which was alluded to in the last newsletter. At the meeting I believe everyone was amazed at how far the chapter flew in 2012. For those of you who were absent, here are the results. If you were to take all the flights from the information provided to me in the study by chapter members and straighten them out, put them end to end and place the result along the earth’s equator, our chapter flew over THREE TIMES AROUND THE EQUATOR. The equator is 24,182 miles in length and the study results showed that we, as a group, flew 76, 230 miles! This represents 23 flyers, thus I did not actually get to all the flyers in the chapter. The longest was 10,600 miles and the shortest was 105 miles. Congratulations to all the award winners, I know you will cherish the certificates, right?

How Far ???

Bobbi and I went to Cedar Falls last Sunday to meet some friends for dinner, and then we went to the Uni-dome for several hours to see model airplanes fly. Amazing! They were all electric light weight foam models, very quiet and some very fast, oth-ers very slow. Most were not scale. Some were very accurate scale. Vendors were there with all their goodies of parts, planes and all the fixings. Flyers were there from several states. All enjoyed the still air of a big dome where wind was not a factor to fly the aircraft on a cold winter day. I did not buy an airplane. I did buy a T-shirt and I’ll bring it to the next EAA meeting.

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Gary Nablo’s Taylor Monoplane

Here are a couple of shots showing some of the excellent detail work on Gary’s project. On the left is the area between the Great Plains engine and the firewall. On the right is the cock-pit and panel view.