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STRAIGHT amp LEVEU Espie Butch Joyce
2 AIRVENTURE 99 AWARDS
3 AlC NEWS
4 AEROMAIL
5 THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER MARKER Dutch Redfield
9 GRADY SHARPS ENGINEPROP POSITIONERJohn Underwood
13 YOUR VERY OWN TAPERWINGI H G Frautschy
17 OZZIES CRUISAIR Budd Davisson
21 MYSTERY PLANE H G Frautschy
24 PASS IT TO BUCK BB Buck Hilbert
27 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS
28 CALENDAR
Publisher TOM POBEREZNY
Editor-in-Chief JACK COX
Editor HENRY G FRAUTSCHY
Managing Editor GOLDA COX
Contributing Editor JOHN UNDERWOOD
Computer Graphic Specialists BETH BLANCK
Photography Staff JIM KOEPNICK LEEANN ABRAMS MARK SCHAIBLE
AdvertisillglEditorial Assistallt ISABELLE WISKE
SEE PAGE 30 FOR FURTHER VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INFORMATION
ST by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE
PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION
It is hard to think that EAA AirVenture 99 is over rhave just gotten my brief cases back in the office Weve been so busy catching up that I have not let the Oshkosh air out of them as of yet Soon all the statistics we enjoy seeing will be compiled the number of aircraft people campers and other items but thats only part of the story
Instead Id like to tell you what was happening in the Vintage Aircraft area of the Convention grounds I received a note the other day from Charlie Harris your VAA treasurer Charlie wrote well done at Oshkosh 99 All went very smooth we have some truly great people I must say Ditto
We have some truly great people both volunteers and members I continue to be amazed at the level of dedication and support the VAA membership gives back to the Vintage Aircraft Association Three cheers for you all
This year the number of people who came forward and volunshyteered was up by a whopping 20 The increase in volunteers has to do in a great part to the service and support the Vintage Aircraft Association gives to its members An important factor is the effort Anna and John Osborn give to this recruitment function all year round In order to operate the VAA area of the grounds during EAA AirVenture the VAA puts together some 60 chairmen and 400 volunteers to help each other The flight line consist of two rows of what we call the North 40 140+ rows of aircraft east of the North South road just east of the Red Barn and the showplane camping area just south of the Theater in the Woods This years wet grounds gave us a bit of a challenge but we filled every availshyable space with some of the best airplanes ever assembled
Speaking of nice aircraft we had the greatest number of returnshying Past Grand Champions this year One of your directors Bob Lickteig started this program years ago We invite these beautiful aircraft to return each year and we honor them with a special parkshying spot so the crowds can enjoy them There are other things we do as well to make sure these people are recognized Dean Richardshyson was the chairman of this activity for a number of years but with Dean assuming the Chief Classic Judge Chairmanship Steve Krog has become the Chairman and did an outstanding job this year Steves group of Past Champions continue to grow because the Judges continue to fmd new champions each year
1999 saw us judging an increased number of quality antique restorations The Judges would get their paper work go out and judge the registered aircraft add up the scores and then fmd that the next day they had well restored new arrivals which would cause them to scratch their heads in amazement once again Each year it becomes more understood that when you win an award at Oshkosh it is one of the most cherished awards because the completion is so
close and the caliber of restorations so high How would you like sitting there feeling pretty good about your
day s work as a judge and then at the end of the day see a 1929 Kreutzer-6K5 with three Kinners spitting at you come taxiing in Wow whered that come from Then a 1929 Fokker Super Univershysal shows up and to top that off here is a farmer from North Dakota showing up in a pretty 1929 Menasco Great Lakes he put together in his spare time A judges work is never done until the judging deadline passes
The Contemporary judges have their work cut out for them too This class was slow in showing up with restored aircraft at first 1 think that it has just taken some time for these restorations to be completed once we started to judge Contemporary aircraft a few years ago The ones that we have now are top quality and as time progresses we will be seeing more new restorations rmight be wrong but it seems to me that the greatest c0t1jJetition is within the Classic group of owners The completion and quality of restorations by these folks just blows my mind
My hat is off to the individuals who are restoring these great airshyplanes and to the group of judges who have to make a choice as to which is best Now we would not be able to judge or just look these aircraft if it was not for the great volunteers and chairman who work the flight line These guys are on the job from first light to darkness each day getting direction from the two primary chairmen for this area George Daubner and Geoff Robinson who have a great group of co-chairmen We look forward to hearing more about their area in a future issue of Vintage Airplane The wonderful group at VAA HQ keeps things moving here with information plaques mugs merchandise and general good fellowship All of these happenings are reported to the V AA membership with the daily published AEROGRAM put together by Sara Marcy Bill Marcy and Earl Nicholas co-editors and publishers Thanks to all the volunteers who made 1999 another great year We truly have some of the greatest people
We held the annual membership and directors meeting at Oshkosh during the Convention on Monday morning at 800 am During this meeting the membership approved all of the actions of the Board of Directors during the past year and the election results were announced Those elected were Vice-President George Daubner Treasurer Charles Harris Directors Robert Brauer John Copeland Phil Coulson Roger Gomoll Dale Gustafson Robert Lickteig Gene Morris and SH Wes Schmid
Should you have an opinion or infonnation you feel would benefit the members of the Vintage Aircraft Association please contact me at any time Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviashytion Remember we are better together Join us and have it all
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AirVenture 99 Awards ANTIQUE Grand Champion Real Perras Morshyrisville VT 1940 Lockheed 12-A (NC2633) Reserve Grand Champion Ed Moore Mystic CT 1943 Howard DGA-15P (NC6843I) Antique Replica Aircraft Champion Sam Johnson Racine WI 1998 Sikoshyrsky S-38 (NC6V)
CHAMPIONS
CUSTOMIZED AIRCRAFT C hampion Roland Rippon Rockford IL 1940 Howard DGA-15 (NC 1227) Runner Up John Scott David Brown Duke Baxter Willard Brown Rock Hill SC 1941 Piper J-3 (NC41105) Outstanding Roy Redman Faribault MN 1928 Waco ATO (NC41105)
TRANSPORT CATEGORY Transport Greg Herrick Jackson WY 1929 Keutzer-6 K5 (NC612A) Transport Runner-Up Museum of Flight Seattle WA 1933 Boeing 2470 (NC 13347)
WORLD WAR II MILITARY TRAINERLIAISON Champion Dan White Andover MN 1942 Boeing N2S-3 (NC58756) Runner Up Dohn Drews Lake Mills WI 1943 Consolidated Vultee BT - 13A (NC I204N) Outstanding Edmund Strauchen Park City UT 1942 Boeing E75 (N75848)
WORLD WAR II ERA (1942-1945) Champion Greg Herrick Jackson WY Interstate S-IA (NC37280) Runner Up David Fayman Lawrence KS 1944 Beechcraft 0 17S (NC4417S) Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane Dan Haas Galesburg IL 1942 Boeing A75NI)
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SILVER AGE (1928-1932) Champion Jerry Wenger Powell WY 1932 Waco UBF-2 (NC I 3027) Runner Up Robert Howie Decatur IL 1930 Waco RNF (NC686Y) Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane John Woodford Madison WI 1930 Bunner-Winkle C-Bird (NC876WC)
BRONZE AGE (1933-1941) Champion William Smith Franklin PA 1937 Monocoupe 110 (NC2064) Runner Up Paul Sensor Hampton lA 1936 Stinson SR-8E (NC 17118) Outstanding Closed Cockpit Biplane Les Cashmere McAlester OK 1936 Waco ZQC-6 (NCI6203) Judges Choice Clark Seaborn Calgary AB 1929 Fokker Super Universal (CFshyAAM)
CLASSIC Grand Champion Boyd Butch Walsh Arrington V A Stinson 108-3 (N6233M) Rese rve Grand Champion L Ga le Perkins Richwood OH Piper PA-17 (N4643H) Best Class One (0-80 hp) Clayton Hamshymond Danville KY Piper J-3 (N7031 0) Best Class II (81-150 hp) Mark Ohlinger Akron OH Bellanca 14-13-1 (N86937) Best Class III (151+ hp) John Kennedy Martinsville IN Navion (N4 185K) Best Custom Class A (0-80 hp) James Zangger Cedar Rapids lA Taylorcraft BCI2-D (NC94953) Best Custom Class B (81-150 hp) Marc Krier Ashland KS Piper J-3C-90 (N71370) Best Custom Class C (151-235 hp) Donald Goodman Goode V A Stinson 108-3 (N717C) Best Custom Class D (236 hp amp up) David Cole Wilis TX Cessna 195B (N195S) Best Aeronca Champ Lonnie Lynn Jeshy
sup GA Aeronca Champ 7 AC (N83320) Best Aeronca Chief Tom Miller Vine Grove KY Aeronca Chief (N86176) Best Beechcraft John Pinson Harker Heights TX Beech 35 (N3935N) Best Bellanca Charles Shouldis Rapid City SO Bellanca 14-19 (N6563N) Best Cessna 120140 David Stadt Waushyconda IL Cessna 120 (N2904N) Best Cessna 170180 John McCloy Polk City FL Cessna 180 (NI8IJM) Best Cess na 190195 Scott Boyton Campbell NY Cessna 195B (N 1955B) Best Ercoupe Alan Cuthbert Dowashygiac MI Ercoupe (N93512) Best Luscombe Mark amp Yvonne May Chapmansboro TN Luscombe (N1168K) Best Navion Kent Strachan Belleville MI Ryan (N4545K) Best Piper J-3 Kenneth Clark Tulsa OK Piper J-3C (N88005) Best Piper-Other Daniel Ernst Mapleshywood MN Piper PA-12 (N530IM) Best Stinson Joseph Jacobi Mexico MO Stinson 108-3 (N652 1M) Best Swift Charles Nelson Athens TN Globe GC-IB (N80637) Best Taylorcraft John Knight Jackson MI Taylorcraft BC12-D (NC96035) Best Limited Production Stephen Johnson Redmond W A DeHavilland Beaver DHC-2 (N888KM) Most Unique Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation Phoenix AZ Lusshycombe 8E (N2638K) Preservation Award Gary Hartwig Sherwood WI Cessna 170A (N9713A)
CONTEMPORARY Grand Champion James Warren Casshytle Rock CO 1960 Beech G 185 (N351WP) Reserve Grand Champion Donald Gaynor Englewood FL 1959 Beech K35 (N87DG) Outstanding Customized Aircraft Rich Claude Williamsburg VA 1960 Beech M35 (N688V) Customized Class I Single Engine
David Taylor Mexico MO 1956 Piper PA 22-20 (N7117B) C ustomized C lass II Single Engine Chris Bruck St Peters MO 1959 Cessna 182 (N182HD) Customized Class III Single E ngine William Demray Northville MI 1959 Piper PA-24 (N69PD) Customized Class IV Multi Engine Jay Simmons Bartlett TN 1957 Piper Apache (N3294P)
OUTSTANDING IN TYPE Beech Multi Engine Ronald Hyde Kennedy TX 1959 Beech EI85S (N317MH) Bellanca Thomas Wright Clyde OH 1958 Bellanca 14-19-2 (N9833B) Cessna 150 Robert Untern aehi Brunswick MO 1959 Cessna 150 (N7835) Cessna 170-172-175 Charles Papas Crown Point IN 1959 Ces sna 172 (N7612T) Cessna 180-182-210 John Voninski Manlius NY 1958 Cessna 182 (N2435G) Cessna 310 R Dean Callan Southlake TX 1958 Cessna 310 (N6644B) Piper PA-18 James Patten Hope IN 1960 Piper PA-18 (N285HC) Piper PA-22-20 Leon Gruetzmac Oelshywein lA 1959 Piper PA22-20 (N2837Z) Piper PA-24 Comanche Robert McshyGraw Chalfont PA 1960 Piper PA-24 Comanche (N7028P) Piper PA-23 ApacheAztec Robert Dalzell Owenboro KY 1957 Piper Apache (N103RS) Limited Production Allan Anderson Santa Rosa CA 1959 Luscombe 8F (N9923C)
SEAPLANE AMPHIBIAN Outstanding Fabric Roland amp Earlene Schab Janesville WI 1941 Taylorcraft (NC36189) Outstanding Homebuilt Bob Harkness Longlac ON Northstar (C-FRMH)) Outstanding Workmanship Julian McshyQueen Gulf Breeze FL 1943 Grumman Widgeon (N67867)
fAA AIRVfNTURf OSHKOSH 2000 JULY 26 - AUG 1
VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy
AERONCA SPAR AD As many of you know we here at EAA
have been involved in monitoring and commenting on NPRM 99-05-04 (Docket No 98-CE-121-AD) concerning added inshyspection requirements for Aeronca spars Unfortunately the short comment periods have meant that each close date for comshyments would be past by the time the next magazine reached you A extension has been granted for comments until Septemshyber 10 (still very close to the time thi s magazine will reach you) so we strongly encourage you to quickly contact the Nashytional Aeronca Association Terre Haute IN 812232-1491 and check the Citabria O~ners Group Web site at http www citabriacom for up-to-date information on their efforts to minimize the impact this isshysue will have
CORRIGANS ROBIN In the Ju ly issue on page II we pubshy
lished a photo of Doug Corrigan giving his engine a once over prior to his famous flight in 1938 It was erroneously capshytioned as a 185-hp Challenger engine Not so as a number of faithful readers pointed out Doug Corrigan relied on a Wright J-6shy5 of 165 hp for his flight from California and thence onto Ireland With the engine change his Robin was designated a 1-1
DUTCH ISNT FINISHED Contrary to the statement we published
on page 5 in last months issue were far from done with Holland Dutch Redshyfields remembrances published under the title 35 Years From The Outer Marker Keep enjoying Dutch s early days starting this month on page 5
THE COVERS
FRONT COVER The EAA AirVenshyture 99 Outstanding Customized AircraftshyAntique winner was this Rare Aircraft creshyation a Waco ATO Taperwing that has recently joined the stable of Jerry Wenger It was also an award winner at the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In chosen as the Best Antique ~usshytom airplane EAA Photo by Mark Shalble shot with aCanon EOS1 nequipped with an 80 -200 mm zoom lens EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore
BACK COVER Post War Aviation is the title of the oil painting by Walter S Dougherty 740 Dukehart Ct Stone Mounshytain GA 300833 years in the making it started out as apainting of the J-3 in which he soloed with his granddaughter added to the mixand then when he started to add a few more airplanes to keep them company things just mushroomed Once completed the painting includes 60 airplanes 14 anshytique cars (including his first a 39 Chevy) and ahawk on the canvas Can you name all the airplanes Akey to the painting is at the bottom of the page
As often happens when you hear about an incident that has been filtered through a couple ofsets ofears invarishyably some changes are made to the story (remember the childhood game of telephone ) Such was the case with the forced landing of Cessna 190 NC3089B the Persimmon and silver Cessna now owned and flown by Ron Karwacky Heres the note from the owner who skillshyfully landed the airplane after the departure of the prop ji-om the engine
Dear Mr Frautschy
T read with some interest your article in the July issue of Vintage Airplane Unless there are two 3089Bs the article is less than acshycurate
It was early on a Sunday mornshying during February 1971 when I took my friend Stewm1 Dauchy for a ride in my Cessna 190 He had his first flying lesson the day beshyfore and was doing a very nice job of flying the 190 when there was a loud crack a violent shudder and then silence
The engine (Continental 670-A) had seized due to a plugged oil vent line from the thrust section of the crankcase The prop left and I slipped it into a small country road See enclosed photos
There was no damage to the airshyplane except to the engine and cowl caused by the depm1ing prop ] bought 3089B from a fellow airshyline pilot from New Jersey and my wife sold it to someone from Northampton MA while I was flyshying contract work in SE Asia
The road we landed on is beshytween West Wardsboro and Stratton VT 3089B had a crossshywind landing gear at the time
Four years later the prop was found on the southeast side of Stratton Mountain in Vermont It was an HS2B20 and I sold it to someone in Florida as it was still in good shape with part of the
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crankshaft still in the hub The old bird sure looks a lot better now Mr Karwacky
has done a fine job to a fine old airplane Sincerely H Kennard Perkins EAA 302126 VAA 14387 Captain Retired United Airlines North Hampton NH
bull bull lIve ears att Outer Marker
Continuing Dutch Redfields early aviation carreer he learns about short field operations
from an old master and hears the pop of a iumpers chute
It was while in the process of preparing for my Private Pilot spin tests that I came to know
Ernie Halmam a little better Ernie was probably the finest
flight instructor on the field and his green fuselage and yellow winged Standard Trainer powered by a short stacked barking clanking popping forever shaking 5-cylinder Kinner engine was to be heard climbing past the open hangar doors for many hours almost every day It was probshyably the busiest airplane on the field
When conducting a training sesshysion Ernie rode in the forward seat of the long bathtub-shaped cockpit To forcefully demonstrate that his student had complete control Ernie always rode with his arms outside grasping the center section struts bracing the upper wing panels and when airborne He was seldom withshyout a dead cigar clenched between
his teeth Ernie was noted for being very
very patient with his students who all held much respect and affection for him For Ernie to swear was most unusual perhaps a Damn it on occasion With little doubt he was the most natural flier Ive ever known Anyone aloft with Ernie exshyperienced or not would be quick to detect the manner in which any airshyplane responded to his light touches as he delicately blended intricate flight fundamentals into a lovely rhythmic flow This flow was planned and sure and beautifully coshyordinated and he flew with a softness and smoothness and precishysion that I had never seen before
A tall lanky farmer Ernie walked with a gait that might be expected were he striding across the dead furrows of a plowed field He was blessed with very intense deepest
blue eyes eyes that truly sparkled when he smiled or laughed Ernie was seldom seen without a soft wool cap and always flew open cockpit airplanes with the peak turned aft and with no goggles He was bald with only a fringe of hair around the edges
To act as his ticket seller Ernie asked that I accompany him one winshytry but sunny Sunday afternoon to fly the Standard to Seneca Lake and Geneva in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York He had learned that the lake was frozen over for about a mile out from shore for the first time in several years The reashyson for the trip I guess was because he needed some poker money Ernie loved to play poker on rainy Sunday afternoons with other grounded aviashytors in the back shop of Harry Ward s hangar Because the lake seldom iced over and because there
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were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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the nose rapidly rotated
through many more deshy
grees than normal to a
now-steep climbing
attitude Speed bled
very rapidly and with a
sharp burst of power we
plunked onto the hillside
with the airplane In a
steep climb
normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
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3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
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214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
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Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
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President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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ST by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE
PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION
It is hard to think that EAA AirVenture 99 is over rhave just gotten my brief cases back in the office Weve been so busy catching up that I have not let the Oshkosh air out of them as of yet Soon all the statistics we enjoy seeing will be compiled the number of aircraft people campers and other items but thats only part of the story
Instead Id like to tell you what was happening in the Vintage Aircraft area of the Convention grounds I received a note the other day from Charlie Harris your VAA treasurer Charlie wrote well done at Oshkosh 99 All went very smooth we have some truly great people I must say Ditto
We have some truly great people both volunteers and members I continue to be amazed at the level of dedication and support the VAA membership gives back to the Vintage Aircraft Association Three cheers for you all
This year the number of people who came forward and volunshyteered was up by a whopping 20 The increase in volunteers has to do in a great part to the service and support the Vintage Aircraft Association gives to its members An important factor is the effort Anna and John Osborn give to this recruitment function all year round In order to operate the VAA area of the grounds during EAA AirVenture the VAA puts together some 60 chairmen and 400 volunteers to help each other The flight line consist of two rows of what we call the North 40 140+ rows of aircraft east of the North South road just east of the Red Barn and the showplane camping area just south of the Theater in the Woods This years wet grounds gave us a bit of a challenge but we filled every availshyable space with some of the best airplanes ever assembled
Speaking of nice aircraft we had the greatest number of returnshying Past Grand Champions this year One of your directors Bob Lickteig started this program years ago We invite these beautiful aircraft to return each year and we honor them with a special parkshying spot so the crowds can enjoy them There are other things we do as well to make sure these people are recognized Dean Richardshyson was the chairman of this activity for a number of years but with Dean assuming the Chief Classic Judge Chairmanship Steve Krog has become the Chairman and did an outstanding job this year Steves group of Past Champions continue to grow because the Judges continue to fmd new champions each year
1999 saw us judging an increased number of quality antique restorations The Judges would get their paper work go out and judge the registered aircraft add up the scores and then fmd that the next day they had well restored new arrivals which would cause them to scratch their heads in amazement once again Each year it becomes more understood that when you win an award at Oshkosh it is one of the most cherished awards because the completion is so
close and the caliber of restorations so high How would you like sitting there feeling pretty good about your
day s work as a judge and then at the end of the day see a 1929 Kreutzer-6K5 with three Kinners spitting at you come taxiing in Wow whered that come from Then a 1929 Fokker Super Univershysal shows up and to top that off here is a farmer from North Dakota showing up in a pretty 1929 Menasco Great Lakes he put together in his spare time A judges work is never done until the judging deadline passes
The Contemporary judges have their work cut out for them too This class was slow in showing up with restored aircraft at first 1 think that it has just taken some time for these restorations to be completed once we started to judge Contemporary aircraft a few years ago The ones that we have now are top quality and as time progresses we will be seeing more new restorations rmight be wrong but it seems to me that the greatest c0t1jJetition is within the Classic group of owners The completion and quality of restorations by these folks just blows my mind
My hat is off to the individuals who are restoring these great airshyplanes and to the group of judges who have to make a choice as to which is best Now we would not be able to judge or just look these aircraft if it was not for the great volunteers and chairman who work the flight line These guys are on the job from first light to darkness each day getting direction from the two primary chairmen for this area George Daubner and Geoff Robinson who have a great group of co-chairmen We look forward to hearing more about their area in a future issue of Vintage Airplane The wonderful group at VAA HQ keeps things moving here with information plaques mugs merchandise and general good fellowship All of these happenings are reported to the V AA membership with the daily published AEROGRAM put together by Sara Marcy Bill Marcy and Earl Nicholas co-editors and publishers Thanks to all the volunteers who made 1999 another great year We truly have some of the greatest people
We held the annual membership and directors meeting at Oshkosh during the Convention on Monday morning at 800 am During this meeting the membership approved all of the actions of the Board of Directors during the past year and the election results were announced Those elected were Vice-President George Daubner Treasurer Charles Harris Directors Robert Brauer John Copeland Phil Coulson Roger Gomoll Dale Gustafson Robert Lickteig Gene Morris and SH Wes Schmid
Should you have an opinion or infonnation you feel would benefit the members of the Vintage Aircraft Association please contact me at any time Lets all pull in the same direction for the good of aviashytion Remember we are better together Join us and have it all
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AirVenture 99 Awards ANTIQUE Grand Champion Real Perras Morshyrisville VT 1940 Lockheed 12-A (NC2633) Reserve Grand Champion Ed Moore Mystic CT 1943 Howard DGA-15P (NC6843I) Antique Replica Aircraft Champion Sam Johnson Racine WI 1998 Sikoshyrsky S-38 (NC6V)
CHAMPIONS
CUSTOMIZED AIRCRAFT C hampion Roland Rippon Rockford IL 1940 Howard DGA-15 (NC 1227) Runner Up John Scott David Brown Duke Baxter Willard Brown Rock Hill SC 1941 Piper J-3 (NC41105) Outstanding Roy Redman Faribault MN 1928 Waco ATO (NC41105)
TRANSPORT CATEGORY Transport Greg Herrick Jackson WY 1929 Keutzer-6 K5 (NC612A) Transport Runner-Up Museum of Flight Seattle WA 1933 Boeing 2470 (NC 13347)
WORLD WAR II MILITARY TRAINERLIAISON Champion Dan White Andover MN 1942 Boeing N2S-3 (NC58756) Runner Up Dohn Drews Lake Mills WI 1943 Consolidated Vultee BT - 13A (NC I204N) Outstanding Edmund Strauchen Park City UT 1942 Boeing E75 (N75848)
WORLD WAR II ERA (1942-1945) Champion Greg Herrick Jackson WY Interstate S-IA (NC37280) Runner Up David Fayman Lawrence KS 1944 Beechcraft 0 17S (NC4417S) Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane Dan Haas Galesburg IL 1942 Boeing A75NI)
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SILVER AGE (1928-1932) Champion Jerry Wenger Powell WY 1932 Waco UBF-2 (NC I 3027) Runner Up Robert Howie Decatur IL 1930 Waco RNF (NC686Y) Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane John Woodford Madison WI 1930 Bunner-Winkle C-Bird (NC876WC)
BRONZE AGE (1933-1941) Champion William Smith Franklin PA 1937 Monocoupe 110 (NC2064) Runner Up Paul Sensor Hampton lA 1936 Stinson SR-8E (NC 17118) Outstanding Closed Cockpit Biplane Les Cashmere McAlester OK 1936 Waco ZQC-6 (NCI6203) Judges Choice Clark Seaborn Calgary AB 1929 Fokker Super Universal (CFshyAAM)
CLASSIC Grand Champion Boyd Butch Walsh Arrington V A Stinson 108-3 (N6233M) Rese rve Grand Champion L Ga le Perkins Richwood OH Piper PA-17 (N4643H) Best Class One (0-80 hp) Clayton Hamshymond Danville KY Piper J-3 (N7031 0) Best Class II (81-150 hp) Mark Ohlinger Akron OH Bellanca 14-13-1 (N86937) Best Class III (151+ hp) John Kennedy Martinsville IN Navion (N4 185K) Best Custom Class A (0-80 hp) James Zangger Cedar Rapids lA Taylorcraft BCI2-D (NC94953) Best Custom Class B (81-150 hp) Marc Krier Ashland KS Piper J-3C-90 (N71370) Best Custom Class C (151-235 hp) Donald Goodman Goode V A Stinson 108-3 (N717C) Best Custom Class D (236 hp amp up) David Cole Wilis TX Cessna 195B (N195S) Best Aeronca Champ Lonnie Lynn Jeshy
sup GA Aeronca Champ 7 AC (N83320) Best Aeronca Chief Tom Miller Vine Grove KY Aeronca Chief (N86176) Best Beechcraft John Pinson Harker Heights TX Beech 35 (N3935N) Best Bellanca Charles Shouldis Rapid City SO Bellanca 14-19 (N6563N) Best Cessna 120140 David Stadt Waushyconda IL Cessna 120 (N2904N) Best Cessna 170180 John McCloy Polk City FL Cessna 180 (NI8IJM) Best Cess na 190195 Scott Boyton Campbell NY Cessna 195B (N 1955B) Best Ercoupe Alan Cuthbert Dowashygiac MI Ercoupe (N93512) Best Luscombe Mark amp Yvonne May Chapmansboro TN Luscombe (N1168K) Best Navion Kent Strachan Belleville MI Ryan (N4545K) Best Piper J-3 Kenneth Clark Tulsa OK Piper J-3C (N88005) Best Piper-Other Daniel Ernst Mapleshywood MN Piper PA-12 (N530IM) Best Stinson Joseph Jacobi Mexico MO Stinson 108-3 (N652 1M) Best Swift Charles Nelson Athens TN Globe GC-IB (N80637) Best Taylorcraft John Knight Jackson MI Taylorcraft BC12-D (NC96035) Best Limited Production Stephen Johnson Redmond W A DeHavilland Beaver DHC-2 (N888KM) Most Unique Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation Phoenix AZ Lusshycombe 8E (N2638K) Preservation Award Gary Hartwig Sherwood WI Cessna 170A (N9713A)
CONTEMPORARY Grand Champion James Warren Casshytle Rock CO 1960 Beech G 185 (N351WP) Reserve Grand Champion Donald Gaynor Englewood FL 1959 Beech K35 (N87DG) Outstanding Customized Aircraft Rich Claude Williamsburg VA 1960 Beech M35 (N688V) Customized Class I Single Engine
David Taylor Mexico MO 1956 Piper PA 22-20 (N7117B) C ustomized C lass II Single Engine Chris Bruck St Peters MO 1959 Cessna 182 (N182HD) Customized Class III Single E ngine William Demray Northville MI 1959 Piper PA-24 (N69PD) Customized Class IV Multi Engine Jay Simmons Bartlett TN 1957 Piper Apache (N3294P)
OUTSTANDING IN TYPE Beech Multi Engine Ronald Hyde Kennedy TX 1959 Beech EI85S (N317MH) Bellanca Thomas Wright Clyde OH 1958 Bellanca 14-19-2 (N9833B) Cessna 150 Robert Untern aehi Brunswick MO 1959 Cessna 150 (N7835) Cessna 170-172-175 Charles Papas Crown Point IN 1959 Ces sna 172 (N7612T) Cessna 180-182-210 John Voninski Manlius NY 1958 Cessna 182 (N2435G) Cessna 310 R Dean Callan Southlake TX 1958 Cessna 310 (N6644B) Piper PA-18 James Patten Hope IN 1960 Piper PA-18 (N285HC) Piper PA-22-20 Leon Gruetzmac Oelshywein lA 1959 Piper PA22-20 (N2837Z) Piper PA-24 Comanche Robert McshyGraw Chalfont PA 1960 Piper PA-24 Comanche (N7028P) Piper PA-23 ApacheAztec Robert Dalzell Owenboro KY 1957 Piper Apache (N103RS) Limited Production Allan Anderson Santa Rosa CA 1959 Luscombe 8F (N9923C)
SEAPLANE AMPHIBIAN Outstanding Fabric Roland amp Earlene Schab Janesville WI 1941 Taylorcraft (NC36189) Outstanding Homebuilt Bob Harkness Longlac ON Northstar (C-FRMH)) Outstanding Workmanship Julian McshyQueen Gulf Breeze FL 1943 Grumman Widgeon (N67867)
fAA AIRVfNTURf OSHKOSH 2000 JULY 26 - AUG 1
VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy
AERONCA SPAR AD As many of you know we here at EAA
have been involved in monitoring and commenting on NPRM 99-05-04 (Docket No 98-CE-121-AD) concerning added inshyspection requirements for Aeronca spars Unfortunately the short comment periods have meant that each close date for comshyments would be past by the time the next magazine reached you A extension has been granted for comments until Septemshyber 10 (still very close to the time thi s magazine will reach you) so we strongly encourage you to quickly contact the Nashytional Aeronca Association Terre Haute IN 812232-1491 and check the Citabria O~ners Group Web site at http www citabriacom for up-to-date information on their efforts to minimize the impact this isshysue will have
CORRIGANS ROBIN In the Ju ly issue on page II we pubshy
lished a photo of Doug Corrigan giving his engine a once over prior to his famous flight in 1938 It was erroneously capshytioned as a 185-hp Challenger engine Not so as a number of faithful readers pointed out Doug Corrigan relied on a Wright J-6shy5 of 165 hp for his flight from California and thence onto Ireland With the engine change his Robin was designated a 1-1
DUTCH ISNT FINISHED Contrary to the statement we published
on page 5 in last months issue were far from done with Holland Dutch Redshyfields remembrances published under the title 35 Years From The Outer Marker Keep enjoying Dutch s early days starting this month on page 5
THE COVERS
FRONT COVER The EAA AirVenshyture 99 Outstanding Customized AircraftshyAntique winner was this Rare Aircraft creshyation a Waco ATO Taperwing that has recently joined the stable of Jerry Wenger It was also an award winner at the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In chosen as the Best Antique ~usshytom airplane EAA Photo by Mark Shalble shot with aCanon EOS1 nequipped with an 80 -200 mm zoom lens EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore
BACK COVER Post War Aviation is the title of the oil painting by Walter S Dougherty 740 Dukehart Ct Stone Mounshytain GA 300833 years in the making it started out as apainting of the J-3 in which he soloed with his granddaughter added to the mixand then when he started to add a few more airplanes to keep them company things just mushroomed Once completed the painting includes 60 airplanes 14 anshytique cars (including his first a 39 Chevy) and ahawk on the canvas Can you name all the airplanes Akey to the painting is at the bottom of the page
As often happens when you hear about an incident that has been filtered through a couple ofsets ofears invarishyably some changes are made to the story (remember the childhood game of telephone ) Such was the case with the forced landing of Cessna 190 NC3089B the Persimmon and silver Cessna now owned and flown by Ron Karwacky Heres the note from the owner who skillshyfully landed the airplane after the departure of the prop ji-om the engine
Dear Mr Frautschy
T read with some interest your article in the July issue of Vintage Airplane Unless there are two 3089Bs the article is less than acshycurate
It was early on a Sunday mornshying during February 1971 when I took my friend Stewm1 Dauchy for a ride in my Cessna 190 He had his first flying lesson the day beshyfore and was doing a very nice job of flying the 190 when there was a loud crack a violent shudder and then silence
The engine (Continental 670-A) had seized due to a plugged oil vent line from the thrust section of the crankcase The prop left and I slipped it into a small country road See enclosed photos
There was no damage to the airshyplane except to the engine and cowl caused by the depm1ing prop ] bought 3089B from a fellow airshyline pilot from New Jersey and my wife sold it to someone from Northampton MA while I was flyshying contract work in SE Asia
The road we landed on is beshytween West Wardsboro and Stratton VT 3089B had a crossshywind landing gear at the time
Four years later the prop was found on the southeast side of Stratton Mountain in Vermont It was an HS2B20 and I sold it to someone in Florida as it was still in good shape with part of the
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crankshaft still in the hub The old bird sure looks a lot better now Mr Karwacky
has done a fine job to a fine old airplane Sincerely H Kennard Perkins EAA 302126 VAA 14387 Captain Retired United Airlines North Hampton NH
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Continuing Dutch Redfields early aviation carreer he learns about short field operations
from an old master and hears the pop of a iumpers chute
It was while in the process of preparing for my Private Pilot spin tests that I came to know
Ernie Halmam a little better Ernie was probably the finest
flight instructor on the field and his green fuselage and yellow winged Standard Trainer powered by a short stacked barking clanking popping forever shaking 5-cylinder Kinner engine was to be heard climbing past the open hangar doors for many hours almost every day It was probshyably the busiest airplane on the field
When conducting a training sesshysion Ernie rode in the forward seat of the long bathtub-shaped cockpit To forcefully demonstrate that his student had complete control Ernie always rode with his arms outside grasping the center section struts bracing the upper wing panels and when airborne He was seldom withshyout a dead cigar clenched between
his teeth Ernie was noted for being very
very patient with his students who all held much respect and affection for him For Ernie to swear was most unusual perhaps a Damn it on occasion With little doubt he was the most natural flier Ive ever known Anyone aloft with Ernie exshyperienced or not would be quick to detect the manner in which any airshyplane responded to his light touches as he delicately blended intricate flight fundamentals into a lovely rhythmic flow This flow was planned and sure and beautifully coshyordinated and he flew with a softness and smoothness and precishysion that I had never seen before
A tall lanky farmer Ernie walked with a gait that might be expected were he striding across the dead furrows of a plowed field He was blessed with very intense deepest
blue eyes eyes that truly sparkled when he smiled or laughed Ernie was seldom seen without a soft wool cap and always flew open cockpit airplanes with the peak turned aft and with no goggles He was bald with only a fringe of hair around the edges
To act as his ticket seller Ernie asked that I accompany him one winshytry but sunny Sunday afternoon to fly the Standard to Seneca Lake and Geneva in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York He had learned that the lake was frozen over for about a mile out from shore for the first time in several years The reashyson for the trip I guess was because he needed some poker money Ernie loved to play poker on rainy Sunday afternoons with other grounded aviashytors in the back shop of Harry Ward s hangar Because the lake seldom iced over and because there
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were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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the nose rapidly rotated
through many more deshy
grees than normal to a
now-steep climbing
attitude Speed bled
very rapidly and with a
sharp burst of power we
plunked onto the hillside
with the airplane In a
steep climb
normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
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3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
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214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
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Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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AirVenture 99 Awards ANTIQUE Grand Champion Real Perras Morshyrisville VT 1940 Lockheed 12-A (NC2633) Reserve Grand Champion Ed Moore Mystic CT 1943 Howard DGA-15P (NC6843I) Antique Replica Aircraft Champion Sam Johnson Racine WI 1998 Sikoshyrsky S-38 (NC6V)
CHAMPIONS
CUSTOMIZED AIRCRAFT C hampion Roland Rippon Rockford IL 1940 Howard DGA-15 (NC 1227) Runner Up John Scott David Brown Duke Baxter Willard Brown Rock Hill SC 1941 Piper J-3 (NC41105) Outstanding Roy Redman Faribault MN 1928 Waco ATO (NC41105)
TRANSPORT CATEGORY Transport Greg Herrick Jackson WY 1929 Keutzer-6 K5 (NC612A) Transport Runner-Up Museum of Flight Seattle WA 1933 Boeing 2470 (NC 13347)
WORLD WAR II MILITARY TRAINERLIAISON Champion Dan White Andover MN 1942 Boeing N2S-3 (NC58756) Runner Up Dohn Drews Lake Mills WI 1943 Consolidated Vultee BT - 13A (NC I204N) Outstanding Edmund Strauchen Park City UT 1942 Boeing E75 (N75848)
WORLD WAR II ERA (1942-1945) Champion Greg Herrick Jackson WY Interstate S-IA (NC37280) Runner Up David Fayman Lawrence KS 1944 Beechcraft 0 17S (NC4417S) Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane Dan Haas Galesburg IL 1942 Boeing A75NI)
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SILVER AGE (1928-1932) Champion Jerry Wenger Powell WY 1932 Waco UBF-2 (NC I 3027) Runner Up Robert Howie Decatur IL 1930 Waco RNF (NC686Y) Outstanding Open Cockpit Biplane John Woodford Madison WI 1930 Bunner-Winkle C-Bird (NC876WC)
BRONZE AGE (1933-1941) Champion William Smith Franklin PA 1937 Monocoupe 110 (NC2064) Runner Up Paul Sensor Hampton lA 1936 Stinson SR-8E (NC 17118) Outstanding Closed Cockpit Biplane Les Cashmere McAlester OK 1936 Waco ZQC-6 (NCI6203) Judges Choice Clark Seaborn Calgary AB 1929 Fokker Super Universal (CFshyAAM)
CLASSIC Grand Champion Boyd Butch Walsh Arrington V A Stinson 108-3 (N6233M) Rese rve Grand Champion L Ga le Perkins Richwood OH Piper PA-17 (N4643H) Best Class One (0-80 hp) Clayton Hamshymond Danville KY Piper J-3 (N7031 0) Best Class II (81-150 hp) Mark Ohlinger Akron OH Bellanca 14-13-1 (N86937) Best Class III (151+ hp) John Kennedy Martinsville IN Navion (N4 185K) Best Custom Class A (0-80 hp) James Zangger Cedar Rapids lA Taylorcraft BCI2-D (NC94953) Best Custom Class B (81-150 hp) Marc Krier Ashland KS Piper J-3C-90 (N71370) Best Custom Class C (151-235 hp) Donald Goodman Goode V A Stinson 108-3 (N717C) Best Custom Class D (236 hp amp up) David Cole Wilis TX Cessna 195B (N195S) Best Aeronca Champ Lonnie Lynn Jeshy
sup GA Aeronca Champ 7 AC (N83320) Best Aeronca Chief Tom Miller Vine Grove KY Aeronca Chief (N86176) Best Beechcraft John Pinson Harker Heights TX Beech 35 (N3935N) Best Bellanca Charles Shouldis Rapid City SO Bellanca 14-19 (N6563N) Best Cessna 120140 David Stadt Waushyconda IL Cessna 120 (N2904N) Best Cessna 170180 John McCloy Polk City FL Cessna 180 (NI8IJM) Best Cess na 190195 Scott Boyton Campbell NY Cessna 195B (N 1955B) Best Ercoupe Alan Cuthbert Dowashygiac MI Ercoupe (N93512) Best Luscombe Mark amp Yvonne May Chapmansboro TN Luscombe (N1168K) Best Navion Kent Strachan Belleville MI Ryan (N4545K) Best Piper J-3 Kenneth Clark Tulsa OK Piper J-3C (N88005) Best Piper-Other Daniel Ernst Mapleshywood MN Piper PA-12 (N530IM) Best Stinson Joseph Jacobi Mexico MO Stinson 108-3 (N652 1M) Best Swift Charles Nelson Athens TN Globe GC-IB (N80637) Best Taylorcraft John Knight Jackson MI Taylorcraft BC12-D (NC96035) Best Limited Production Stephen Johnson Redmond W A DeHavilland Beaver DHC-2 (N888KM) Most Unique Don Luscombe Aviation History Foundation Phoenix AZ Lusshycombe 8E (N2638K) Preservation Award Gary Hartwig Sherwood WI Cessna 170A (N9713A)
CONTEMPORARY Grand Champion James Warren Casshytle Rock CO 1960 Beech G 185 (N351WP) Reserve Grand Champion Donald Gaynor Englewood FL 1959 Beech K35 (N87DG) Outstanding Customized Aircraft Rich Claude Williamsburg VA 1960 Beech M35 (N688V) Customized Class I Single Engine
David Taylor Mexico MO 1956 Piper PA 22-20 (N7117B) C ustomized C lass II Single Engine Chris Bruck St Peters MO 1959 Cessna 182 (N182HD) Customized Class III Single E ngine William Demray Northville MI 1959 Piper PA-24 (N69PD) Customized Class IV Multi Engine Jay Simmons Bartlett TN 1957 Piper Apache (N3294P)
OUTSTANDING IN TYPE Beech Multi Engine Ronald Hyde Kennedy TX 1959 Beech EI85S (N317MH) Bellanca Thomas Wright Clyde OH 1958 Bellanca 14-19-2 (N9833B) Cessna 150 Robert Untern aehi Brunswick MO 1959 Cessna 150 (N7835) Cessna 170-172-175 Charles Papas Crown Point IN 1959 Ces sna 172 (N7612T) Cessna 180-182-210 John Voninski Manlius NY 1958 Cessna 182 (N2435G) Cessna 310 R Dean Callan Southlake TX 1958 Cessna 310 (N6644B) Piper PA-18 James Patten Hope IN 1960 Piper PA-18 (N285HC) Piper PA-22-20 Leon Gruetzmac Oelshywein lA 1959 Piper PA22-20 (N2837Z) Piper PA-24 Comanche Robert McshyGraw Chalfont PA 1960 Piper PA-24 Comanche (N7028P) Piper PA-23 ApacheAztec Robert Dalzell Owenboro KY 1957 Piper Apache (N103RS) Limited Production Allan Anderson Santa Rosa CA 1959 Luscombe 8F (N9923C)
SEAPLANE AMPHIBIAN Outstanding Fabric Roland amp Earlene Schab Janesville WI 1941 Taylorcraft (NC36189) Outstanding Homebuilt Bob Harkness Longlac ON Northstar (C-FRMH)) Outstanding Workmanship Julian McshyQueen Gulf Breeze FL 1943 Grumman Widgeon (N67867)
fAA AIRVfNTURf OSHKOSH 2000 JULY 26 - AUG 1
VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy
AERONCA SPAR AD As many of you know we here at EAA
have been involved in monitoring and commenting on NPRM 99-05-04 (Docket No 98-CE-121-AD) concerning added inshyspection requirements for Aeronca spars Unfortunately the short comment periods have meant that each close date for comshyments would be past by the time the next magazine reached you A extension has been granted for comments until Septemshyber 10 (still very close to the time thi s magazine will reach you) so we strongly encourage you to quickly contact the Nashytional Aeronca Association Terre Haute IN 812232-1491 and check the Citabria O~ners Group Web site at http www citabriacom for up-to-date information on their efforts to minimize the impact this isshysue will have
CORRIGANS ROBIN In the Ju ly issue on page II we pubshy
lished a photo of Doug Corrigan giving his engine a once over prior to his famous flight in 1938 It was erroneously capshytioned as a 185-hp Challenger engine Not so as a number of faithful readers pointed out Doug Corrigan relied on a Wright J-6shy5 of 165 hp for his flight from California and thence onto Ireland With the engine change his Robin was designated a 1-1
DUTCH ISNT FINISHED Contrary to the statement we published
on page 5 in last months issue were far from done with Holland Dutch Redshyfields remembrances published under the title 35 Years From The Outer Marker Keep enjoying Dutch s early days starting this month on page 5
THE COVERS
FRONT COVER The EAA AirVenshyture 99 Outstanding Customized AircraftshyAntique winner was this Rare Aircraft creshyation a Waco ATO Taperwing that has recently joined the stable of Jerry Wenger It was also an award winner at the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In chosen as the Best Antique ~usshytom airplane EAA Photo by Mark Shalble shot with aCanon EOS1 nequipped with an 80 -200 mm zoom lens EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore
BACK COVER Post War Aviation is the title of the oil painting by Walter S Dougherty 740 Dukehart Ct Stone Mounshytain GA 300833 years in the making it started out as apainting of the J-3 in which he soloed with his granddaughter added to the mixand then when he started to add a few more airplanes to keep them company things just mushroomed Once completed the painting includes 60 airplanes 14 anshytique cars (including his first a 39 Chevy) and ahawk on the canvas Can you name all the airplanes Akey to the painting is at the bottom of the page
As often happens when you hear about an incident that has been filtered through a couple ofsets ofears invarishyably some changes are made to the story (remember the childhood game of telephone ) Such was the case with the forced landing of Cessna 190 NC3089B the Persimmon and silver Cessna now owned and flown by Ron Karwacky Heres the note from the owner who skillshyfully landed the airplane after the departure of the prop ji-om the engine
Dear Mr Frautschy
T read with some interest your article in the July issue of Vintage Airplane Unless there are two 3089Bs the article is less than acshycurate
It was early on a Sunday mornshying during February 1971 when I took my friend Stewm1 Dauchy for a ride in my Cessna 190 He had his first flying lesson the day beshyfore and was doing a very nice job of flying the 190 when there was a loud crack a violent shudder and then silence
The engine (Continental 670-A) had seized due to a plugged oil vent line from the thrust section of the crankcase The prop left and I slipped it into a small country road See enclosed photos
There was no damage to the airshyplane except to the engine and cowl caused by the depm1ing prop ] bought 3089B from a fellow airshyline pilot from New Jersey and my wife sold it to someone from Northampton MA while I was flyshying contract work in SE Asia
The road we landed on is beshytween West Wardsboro and Stratton VT 3089B had a crossshywind landing gear at the time
Four years later the prop was found on the southeast side of Stratton Mountain in Vermont It was an HS2B20 and I sold it to someone in Florida as it was still in good shape with part of the
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crankshaft still in the hub The old bird sure looks a lot better now Mr Karwacky
has done a fine job to a fine old airplane Sincerely H Kennard Perkins EAA 302126 VAA 14387 Captain Retired United Airlines North Hampton NH
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Continuing Dutch Redfields early aviation carreer he learns about short field operations
from an old master and hears the pop of a iumpers chute
It was while in the process of preparing for my Private Pilot spin tests that I came to know
Ernie Halmam a little better Ernie was probably the finest
flight instructor on the field and his green fuselage and yellow winged Standard Trainer powered by a short stacked barking clanking popping forever shaking 5-cylinder Kinner engine was to be heard climbing past the open hangar doors for many hours almost every day It was probshyably the busiest airplane on the field
When conducting a training sesshysion Ernie rode in the forward seat of the long bathtub-shaped cockpit To forcefully demonstrate that his student had complete control Ernie always rode with his arms outside grasping the center section struts bracing the upper wing panels and when airborne He was seldom withshyout a dead cigar clenched between
his teeth Ernie was noted for being very
very patient with his students who all held much respect and affection for him For Ernie to swear was most unusual perhaps a Damn it on occasion With little doubt he was the most natural flier Ive ever known Anyone aloft with Ernie exshyperienced or not would be quick to detect the manner in which any airshyplane responded to his light touches as he delicately blended intricate flight fundamentals into a lovely rhythmic flow This flow was planned and sure and beautifully coshyordinated and he flew with a softness and smoothness and precishysion that I had never seen before
A tall lanky farmer Ernie walked with a gait that might be expected were he striding across the dead furrows of a plowed field He was blessed with very intense deepest
blue eyes eyes that truly sparkled when he smiled or laughed Ernie was seldom seen without a soft wool cap and always flew open cockpit airplanes with the peak turned aft and with no goggles He was bald with only a fringe of hair around the edges
To act as his ticket seller Ernie asked that I accompany him one winshytry but sunny Sunday afternoon to fly the Standard to Seneca Lake and Geneva in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York He had learned that the lake was frozen over for about a mile out from shore for the first time in several years The reashyson for the trip I guess was because he needed some poker money Ernie loved to play poker on rainy Sunday afternoons with other grounded aviashytors in the back shop of Harry Ward s hangar Because the lake seldom iced over and because there
by Holland Dutch Redfield
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5
were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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the nose rapidly rotated
through many more deshy
grees than normal to a
now-steep climbing
attitude Speed bled
very rapidly and with a
sharp burst of power we
plunked onto the hillside
with the airplane In a
steep climb
normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
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1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
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POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
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Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
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President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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have been involved in monitoring and commenting on NPRM 99-05-04 (Docket No 98-CE-121-AD) concerning added inshyspection requirements for Aeronca spars Unfortunately the short comment periods have meant that each close date for comshyments would be past by the time the next magazine reached you A extension has been granted for comments until Septemshyber 10 (still very close to the time thi s magazine will reach you) so we strongly encourage you to quickly contact the Nashytional Aeronca Association Terre Haute IN 812232-1491 and check the Citabria O~ners Group Web site at http www citabriacom for up-to-date information on their efforts to minimize the impact this isshysue will have
CORRIGANS ROBIN In the Ju ly issue on page II we pubshy
lished a photo of Doug Corrigan giving his engine a once over prior to his famous flight in 1938 It was erroneously capshytioned as a 185-hp Challenger engine Not so as a number of faithful readers pointed out Doug Corrigan relied on a Wright J-6shy5 of 165 hp for his flight from California and thence onto Ireland With the engine change his Robin was designated a 1-1
DUTCH ISNT FINISHED Contrary to the statement we published
on page 5 in last months issue were far from done with Holland Dutch Redshyfields remembrances published under the title 35 Years From The Outer Marker Keep enjoying Dutch s early days starting this month on page 5
THE COVERS
FRONT COVER The EAA AirVenshyture 99 Outstanding Customized AircraftshyAntique winner was this Rare Aircraft creshyation a Waco ATO Taperwing that has recently joined the stable of Jerry Wenger It was also an award winner at the Sun n Fun EAA Fly-In chosen as the Best Antique ~usshytom airplane EAA Photo by Mark Shalble shot with aCanon EOS1 nequipped with an 80 -200 mm zoom lens EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore
BACK COVER Post War Aviation is the title of the oil painting by Walter S Dougherty 740 Dukehart Ct Stone Mounshytain GA 300833 years in the making it started out as apainting of the J-3 in which he soloed with his granddaughter added to the mixand then when he started to add a few more airplanes to keep them company things just mushroomed Once completed the painting includes 60 airplanes 14 anshytique cars (including his first a 39 Chevy) and ahawk on the canvas Can you name all the airplanes Akey to the painting is at the bottom of the page
As often happens when you hear about an incident that has been filtered through a couple ofsets ofears invarishyably some changes are made to the story (remember the childhood game of telephone ) Such was the case with the forced landing of Cessna 190 NC3089B the Persimmon and silver Cessna now owned and flown by Ron Karwacky Heres the note from the owner who skillshyfully landed the airplane after the departure of the prop ji-om the engine
Dear Mr Frautschy
T read with some interest your article in the July issue of Vintage Airplane Unless there are two 3089Bs the article is less than acshycurate
It was early on a Sunday mornshying during February 1971 when I took my friend Stewm1 Dauchy for a ride in my Cessna 190 He had his first flying lesson the day beshyfore and was doing a very nice job of flying the 190 when there was a loud crack a violent shudder and then silence
The engine (Continental 670-A) had seized due to a plugged oil vent line from the thrust section of the crankcase The prop left and I slipped it into a small country road See enclosed photos
There was no damage to the airshyplane except to the engine and cowl caused by the depm1ing prop ] bought 3089B from a fellow airshyline pilot from New Jersey and my wife sold it to someone from Northampton MA while I was flyshying contract work in SE Asia
The road we landed on is beshytween West Wardsboro and Stratton VT 3089B had a crossshywind landing gear at the time
Four years later the prop was found on the southeast side of Stratton Mountain in Vermont It was an HS2B20 and I sold it to someone in Florida as it was still in good shape with part of the
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crankshaft still in the hub The old bird sure looks a lot better now Mr Karwacky
has done a fine job to a fine old airplane Sincerely H Kennard Perkins EAA 302126 VAA 14387 Captain Retired United Airlines North Hampton NH
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Continuing Dutch Redfields early aviation carreer he learns about short field operations
from an old master and hears the pop of a iumpers chute
It was while in the process of preparing for my Private Pilot spin tests that I came to know
Ernie Halmam a little better Ernie was probably the finest
flight instructor on the field and his green fuselage and yellow winged Standard Trainer powered by a short stacked barking clanking popping forever shaking 5-cylinder Kinner engine was to be heard climbing past the open hangar doors for many hours almost every day It was probshyably the busiest airplane on the field
When conducting a training sesshysion Ernie rode in the forward seat of the long bathtub-shaped cockpit To forcefully demonstrate that his student had complete control Ernie always rode with his arms outside grasping the center section struts bracing the upper wing panels and when airborne He was seldom withshyout a dead cigar clenched between
his teeth Ernie was noted for being very
very patient with his students who all held much respect and affection for him For Ernie to swear was most unusual perhaps a Damn it on occasion With little doubt he was the most natural flier Ive ever known Anyone aloft with Ernie exshyperienced or not would be quick to detect the manner in which any airshyplane responded to his light touches as he delicately blended intricate flight fundamentals into a lovely rhythmic flow This flow was planned and sure and beautifully coshyordinated and he flew with a softness and smoothness and precishysion that I had never seen before
A tall lanky farmer Ernie walked with a gait that might be expected were he striding across the dead furrows of a plowed field He was blessed with very intense deepest
blue eyes eyes that truly sparkled when he smiled or laughed Ernie was seldom seen without a soft wool cap and always flew open cockpit airplanes with the peak turned aft and with no goggles He was bald with only a fringe of hair around the edges
To act as his ticket seller Ernie asked that I accompany him one winshytry but sunny Sunday afternoon to fly the Standard to Seneca Lake and Geneva in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York He had learned that the lake was frozen over for about a mile out from shore for the first time in several years The reashyson for the trip I guess was because he needed some poker money Ernie loved to play poker on rainy Sunday afternoons with other grounded aviashytors in the back shop of Harry Ward s hangar Because the lake seldom iced over and because there
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were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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the nose rapidly rotated
through many more deshy
grees than normal to a
now-steep climbing
attitude Speed bled
very rapidly and with a
sharp burst of power we
plunked onto the hillside
with the airplane In a
steep climb
normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
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3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
~
-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
---- ---
214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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As often happens when you hear about an incident that has been filtered through a couple ofsets ofears invarishyably some changes are made to the story (remember the childhood game of telephone ) Such was the case with the forced landing of Cessna 190 NC3089B the Persimmon and silver Cessna now owned and flown by Ron Karwacky Heres the note from the owner who skillshyfully landed the airplane after the departure of the prop ji-om the engine
Dear Mr Frautschy
T read with some interest your article in the July issue of Vintage Airplane Unless there are two 3089Bs the article is less than acshycurate
It was early on a Sunday mornshying during February 1971 when I took my friend Stewm1 Dauchy for a ride in my Cessna 190 He had his first flying lesson the day beshyfore and was doing a very nice job of flying the 190 when there was a loud crack a violent shudder and then silence
The engine (Continental 670-A) had seized due to a plugged oil vent line from the thrust section of the crankcase The prop left and I slipped it into a small country road See enclosed photos
There was no damage to the airshyplane except to the engine and cowl caused by the depm1ing prop ] bought 3089B from a fellow airshyline pilot from New Jersey and my wife sold it to someone from Northampton MA while I was flyshying contract work in SE Asia
The road we landed on is beshytween West Wardsboro and Stratton VT 3089B had a crossshywind landing gear at the time
Four years later the prop was found on the southeast side of Stratton Mountain in Vermont It was an HS2B20 and I sold it to someone in Florida as it was still in good shape with part of the
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crankshaft still in the hub The old bird sure looks a lot better now Mr Karwacky
has done a fine job to a fine old airplane Sincerely H Kennard Perkins EAA 302126 VAA 14387 Captain Retired United Airlines North Hampton NH
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Continuing Dutch Redfields early aviation carreer he learns about short field operations
from an old master and hears the pop of a iumpers chute
It was while in the process of preparing for my Private Pilot spin tests that I came to know
Ernie Halmam a little better Ernie was probably the finest
flight instructor on the field and his green fuselage and yellow winged Standard Trainer powered by a short stacked barking clanking popping forever shaking 5-cylinder Kinner engine was to be heard climbing past the open hangar doors for many hours almost every day It was probshyably the busiest airplane on the field
When conducting a training sesshysion Ernie rode in the forward seat of the long bathtub-shaped cockpit To forcefully demonstrate that his student had complete control Ernie always rode with his arms outside grasping the center section struts bracing the upper wing panels and when airborne He was seldom withshyout a dead cigar clenched between
his teeth Ernie was noted for being very
very patient with his students who all held much respect and affection for him For Ernie to swear was most unusual perhaps a Damn it on occasion With little doubt he was the most natural flier Ive ever known Anyone aloft with Ernie exshyperienced or not would be quick to detect the manner in which any airshyplane responded to his light touches as he delicately blended intricate flight fundamentals into a lovely rhythmic flow This flow was planned and sure and beautifully coshyordinated and he flew with a softness and smoothness and precishysion that I had never seen before
A tall lanky farmer Ernie walked with a gait that might be expected were he striding across the dead furrows of a plowed field He was blessed with very intense deepest
blue eyes eyes that truly sparkled when he smiled or laughed Ernie was seldom seen without a soft wool cap and always flew open cockpit airplanes with the peak turned aft and with no goggles He was bald with only a fringe of hair around the edges
To act as his ticket seller Ernie asked that I accompany him one winshytry but sunny Sunday afternoon to fly the Standard to Seneca Lake and Geneva in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York He had learned that the lake was frozen over for about a mile out from shore for the first time in several years The reashyson for the trip I guess was because he needed some poker money Ernie loved to play poker on rainy Sunday afternoons with other grounded aviashytors in the back shop of Harry Ward s hangar Because the lake seldom iced over and because there
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were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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the nose rapidly rotated
through many more deshy
grees than normal to a
now-steep climbing
attitude Speed bled
very rapidly and with a
sharp burst of power we
plunked onto the hillside
with the airplane In a
steep climb
normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
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3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
~
-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
---- ---
214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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Continuing Dutch Redfields early aviation carreer he learns about short field operations
from an old master and hears the pop of a iumpers chute
It was while in the process of preparing for my Private Pilot spin tests that I came to know
Ernie Halmam a little better Ernie was probably the finest
flight instructor on the field and his green fuselage and yellow winged Standard Trainer powered by a short stacked barking clanking popping forever shaking 5-cylinder Kinner engine was to be heard climbing past the open hangar doors for many hours almost every day It was probshyably the busiest airplane on the field
When conducting a training sesshysion Ernie rode in the forward seat of the long bathtub-shaped cockpit To forcefully demonstrate that his student had complete control Ernie always rode with his arms outside grasping the center section struts bracing the upper wing panels and when airborne He was seldom withshyout a dead cigar clenched between
his teeth Ernie was noted for being very
very patient with his students who all held much respect and affection for him For Ernie to swear was most unusual perhaps a Damn it on occasion With little doubt he was the most natural flier Ive ever known Anyone aloft with Ernie exshyperienced or not would be quick to detect the manner in which any airshyplane responded to his light touches as he delicately blended intricate flight fundamentals into a lovely rhythmic flow This flow was planned and sure and beautifully coshyordinated and he flew with a softness and smoothness and precishysion that I had never seen before
A tall lanky farmer Ernie walked with a gait that might be expected were he striding across the dead furrows of a plowed field He was blessed with very intense deepest
blue eyes eyes that truly sparkled when he smiled or laughed Ernie was seldom seen without a soft wool cap and always flew open cockpit airplanes with the peak turned aft and with no goggles He was bald with only a fringe of hair around the edges
To act as his ticket seller Ernie asked that I accompany him one winshytry but sunny Sunday afternoon to fly the Standard to Seneca Lake and Geneva in the Finger Lakes area of upstate New York He had learned that the lake was frozen over for about a mile out from shore for the first time in several years The reashyson for the trip I guess was because he needed some poker money Ernie loved to play poker on rainy Sunday afternoons with other grounded aviashytors in the back shop of Harry Ward s hangar Because the lake seldom iced over and because there
by Holland Dutch Redfield
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were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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the nose rapidly rotated
through many more deshy
grees than normal to a
now-steep climbing
attitude Speed bled
very rapidly and with a
sharp burst of power we
plunked onto the hillside
with the airplane In a
steep climb
normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
---- ---
214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
rHo
by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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were no suitable landing fields nearby the town Geneva had not been barnstormed for some time and Ernie was of the belief that time was ripe for making a few dollars hopping passengers from a highway closely bordering the lake shore
As we descended toward the lake it didnt look to me as if there wa s any ice at all It looked all lake and open water until we cirshycled directly overhead where looking straight down could be seen a layer of dirty gray ice that appeared to be under about an inch of smooth water and this layer of ice extended but little distance from shore
Our approach was into the genshytle south wind blowing and toward this open water area It was diffishycult at low levels to see where the ice ended and the unfrozen lake started and Ernie touched the Standard down very short and very close to the shoreline after a steep s ide slip Icy spray was thrown high over the lower wings and tail on our rollout We taxied back toshyward shore and a crowd of gathering automobiles through big puddles of shallow water It looked like a very successful afternoon might be in store for us Close to the highway Ernie spun the Standard around with a blast of the barking Kinner I loosened my seat belt and stepped out onto the walkway of the lower wing as the engine was cut As I stepped down to the puddled ice it seems we both looked at the same time and to our complete shock saw in the ice just off our wingtip a hole large enough to swallow the enshytire airplane As we had made our final tum we had missed rolling into it by only a few feet
Wow Ernie shouted Lets get out of this place pumping the throttle and gunning the dying Kinshyner back to life I was still trying to clamber into the forward seat as we lifted off in a cloud of spray like a seaplane Ernie banked rapidly then climbed steeply for home without buzzing the crowd Neither of us looked back
Ernie owned an impeccably spotshyless farm on the side of the beautiful hills south of Syracuse Besides the
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with the airplane In a
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normal upstate farm products he raised wonderful popcorn and from his slaughtered pigs made real homeshyfresh country sausage The annual appearance of these two items was always an airport occasion
On a hillside in back of his house which overlooked lovely Onondaga Valley was a tiny steeply-sloped grassy patch bordered on three sides by tall growing com Had this field been on a level plane it would have been far too small to make a landing or takeoff with anything but a helishycopter Ernie however regardless of wind and with inches to spare would land the Standard in an uphill direcshytion tum and then take offdownhill
He took me with him one day so I could see his farm As we circled it was plain that this was going to be a hair-trigger flying job that had to be exactly done with the airplane flown right on the edge of its airfoils low speed lift curves and there was no out if there was miscalculation as the airplane could not be climbed steeply enough nor could it be banked sufficiently to miss his house and bam
Ernie stopped our gliding turn high over the valley and the wings were leveled As we descended toshyward the tiny green patch on the side of the hill it appeared we were flying the airplane straight into the ground because of the optically distorted approach geometry
At the last second the airplane was sharply flared for landing and the nose rapidly rotated through many more degrees than normal to a now-steep climbing attitude Speed bled very rapidly and with a sharp burst of power we plunked onto the hillside with the airplane in a steep climb
Few pilots I had flown with up to this point would be able to pull this off The Standard touched down with its wing tips brushing the cornstalks and the drag of the uptilted elevators and the dragging tail skid took over as we rapidly decelerated while rolling up the steep incline When we finally bumped to a stop the idling proshypeller was only a few feet from the outer cellarway entrance and Ernies outside well pump handle
r was introduced to Ernies wife Lulu Belle his two dogs and his cat Then he gave me a tour of the
farm during which I was given a pashyper bag of popcorn kernels that I stored in the front cockpit til we were ready to depart
When it was time to leave we chocked just one wheel with a rock and Ernie pulled the prop through to start the Kinner while I operated the switches He then lifted the tail and with me still in the cockpit swiveled the airplane around pointing it back down the steep hill that we a short time ago had landed on Takeoff acshyceleration down the hill was very rapid and in a few feet we were airshyborne and in a few more seconds again high over the valley We cirshycled back over the farm where the dogs raced and barked at us and his wife Lulu Belle waved
On Sundays during the summer the local aviators doing business flyshying sightseeing airplane rides would take their tum putting on a short air show which was hoped would get a crowd out and perhaps in the mood to do some flying
It might be Clayt Welch looping
and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
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3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
~
-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
---- ---
214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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and rolling his red and silver Waco F or Charlie Smith buzzing the field with his lovely Stinson or perhaps Ernie Hannam taking a few minutes off from his student training to put on a show with his Standard
It was always a real treat to be there as Ernie cut his engine and then slowly reduced airspeed til the proshypeller windmilled to a complete stop He would then glide with silent graceful wingovers and stalls from a position high overhead to a gentle touch down
Many years later when his beauti shyful wings had been folded for him and he lay bedridden I wrote Ernie a poem recalling this Syracuse Sunday event Perhaps now since you know a bit about Ernie youll enjoy readshying it with me
OLD DEAD STICK HANNAM Rumor has it
Old flying friend That theyve got you draped on
Your sitting end Now this is a heck of a
Place to be Cause in case you dont know it
It aint for free But perhaps old boy
As you stare at the ceiling You are able to think back
With nostalgic feeling To those good old days
Not too long ago When flying was fun
And to heck with the dough My thoughts reminiscing
Are sharp as a tack Days of Webster and Ward
And Merrill and Mac See a Gypsy Moth
With old Tex Perin Hear your Standards ShOlt stacks
Popping and rarin And those Sundays up high
Old Ernie shuts the engine off Stops her prop crosswise Dare she not even cough From two thousand now
Graceful swoops hes gliding in Nowa lovely whistling swish
Without that Kinner din Side slipped gently
To that tiny airport corner Barely missing wingtips
Clayts F Waco Warner Puts her right where he wants her Struts for seconds stay extended Wheels ticking oer the grasstops
The flippers full up ended Yes old Pappy fmally fluffs her
Very gently down Cap beak pointing backward
Atop his old bald crown Sure a lovely three pointer
For which all of us try Done just that way not the lot of
All ofthose that fly Fire eater Hibbard glances up from
His ticket selling chore Hell never ever stop her Before that hangar door
That poor old battered hangar With its urine-spattered tin
At night takes him twenty minutes To squeeze and worm her in But shes ground borne now
And there is just no other out Hes got to stop her in there
Of this there is no doubt Harmam bites his dead cigar
Its clenched between his teeth He hopes the tail skid does its job
Dragging underneath Shes fading rather fast now But hes closer to the door Only sound an idling 1-6-5
Two passengers want some more A shout goes up
Hes got no choice But now to take her in
Good God ifhe ever misses What an awful mess of tin
With inches spare inside he goes And rolls her to a stop
Doors quickly move together And close up with a clop
Long legs ease up out of cockpit Caps straightened with a spin To those tabled in the comer
You didnt deal me in
Have you ever watched a parashychute being packed If you ever plan to use one dont Yet it is done with meticulous care and ends up so tightly packed and with its very long shroud lines so folded and refolded that its always been a wonder to me that it could ever open
Tugging the handle of the ripcord releases three pins extending through grommeted holes in the four canvas flaps of the parachute pack Release of these flaps in turn frees a small spring-loaded pilot chute which is atshytached to the crown of the main chute pulling it free of its canvas pack and into the airstream When a person is falling end over end it is difficult to see how this mess of silk
and cords could possibly escape beshycoming tangled in arms legs and around the neck of the jumper who is tumbling earthward and praying that it will open
The shock when a chute opens can be ferocious If falling head down the happy chutist is now snapped heads up with neck-breakshying force Even if the descent after chute opening is uneventful when contacting the ground the impact is the equivalent of what would be exshyperienced had you jumped off a 15 foot building without a chute which is pretty darn hard Also near the surface if the air being descended through happens to be a surface wind of 18-20 mph- on top of the soon-to-be-contended with high deshyscent rate there will also be the additional problem of an 18-20 mph drift and it might be backwards and toward something unseen
Many many hours Ive spent in open cockpit sitting on hard parashychute packs and how many times have I walked across airport ramps with the pesky ungainly thing thumping the back of my legs Did I ever jump No and r have really never had any plans to do so Yet on some soft late afternoons with a good student in the back cockpit Ive a few times been tempted to step out on the wing walkway step off and drift down but better judgment has always prevailed
This may be a good time to tell you about Ed Wynn the professional parachute jumper Ed made a living of sorts jumping out of airplanes at air shows after passing the hat for donations from the crowd
His specialty was the delayed drop which called for him to tuck a bag of flour under his arm then go over the side at 9000-10000 feet On the way down and in free fall he would punch a hole in the flour bag with his thumb then leave a streaking white trail as he plummeted earthward like a rock at terminal velocities At the last moment Ed would open his chute and drift the few remaining feet to earth I have never liked to watch parachute jumps and have always looked the other way
Without his chute Ed walked out on the field one day while I was pracshyticing landings with the Waco He waved me over to the edge of the
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
Hydraulic Lockingand the wright R760-8 Engine
Crady Sharpmiddots Engine prop Positioner
I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
10 SEPTEMBER 1999
TURNED OFF IN LATHE
~
-c- ~i =tJ CHUCK IN LATHE ~~RJ -- FLANGE
---- ---
214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11
have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15
Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
-Continued on page 22
teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - LOUISE TX - Flying VRanch (T26) 10th annual Under the Wire jly-in Info Robbie Vajdos 409648-2163 orjlyingvwcnetnet
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - JACKSONVILLE IL - (lJX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunioll info Suzette Selig 630904-6964
SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
SEPTEMBER 18-19- ROCK FALLS IL - North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-In Forums workshyshopsjly-market Camping and Air Rally Info 630543-6743 or check our websiste at hllpmemshybersaolcomnceaa
SEPTEMBER 15 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tailwheels Fly-In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654
SEPTEMBER 15 - TOPPING VA - Humm el Air Field Wings amp Wh eels 99 9 am -3 pm (Rain
date 926) Info Jamie Bamhardt 804758-2753 on on the web at httpj7y tpwingsandwheels Eshymailwingsandwheelshotmail com
SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
SEPTEMBER 16 - GROVE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 161 Fly-In BreakfastLunch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200
OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
OCTOBER 1-3 - DARLINGTON SC - Fall Fly-In sponsored by Vintage Airplane Association Chapshyter 3 Info Call 910 947-1853 or FAX 757-873-3059
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I field then stepped alongside the rear cockpit with his pants legs flapping in the prop stream He asked if I would take him along so he could practice guessing how high he was (or wasnt) this he explained so he could better carry his delayed chute openings till the very last instant to further delight the crowds
Ed seated himself in the forward cockpit and we took off As we climbed through 400 feet he turned around and shouted Don t tell me shywere at 1500 feet - right NO NO ED I shouted and hastily inshyformed him how high we really were During many tries that day and on folshylowing days Ed never even came close and consistently estimated his heights far above the actual But this
the onlookers With his bulky gear I he lped him
climb in then passed him his flour bag his helmet and his motorcycle goggles With Merrill at the switches I swung the heavy metal prop and the Whirlwind idled to life There was a big grin on Eds face kneeling on the cabin floor in his harness near the open doorway as Merrill taxied away and blew dust in our faces Ed waved to the anticishypating crowd as the plane lifted off then roared past with the wheels skimming across the field a few feet above the ground
Merrill planned a long climb to 10000 feet The Stinson climbed slowly so while I had some time I hand pumped some fuel from the
and his tumbling form too small looked away again As I waited I pondered the toes of my shoes the laces and then the lace knots I had tied that morning in the rooming house Then I examined my pants cuff and slowly pulled out a loose thread Would the ahs that alshyways came as the chute blossomed never come
To stand it any longer was imposshysible and I had to look up but I could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that I could plainly see his flapping white coveralls his arm across his chest his hand on the ripshy
liTo stand it any longer was impossible and I had to look up but I
could not find Ed or the flour streak I looked up further and
gasped in alarm because he was directly over my head and falling
head down straight toward me He was so close to the ground that
I could plainily see his flapping white coveralls II
didnt seem to bother him he said it looked different when coming straight down anyway
It was a short while after this that I accompanied Merrill Phoenix with the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson to a small town near the Pennsylvania border for a barnstorming weekend Ed came along with us to do exhibition jumps to help draw a crowd to the field
The jump on Saturday went off fine but Ed didnt seem pleased with it as he had missed the field entirely because he hadnt waited long enough before pulling the rip cord Oh boy r thought Wait til tomorrow
It was now mid-afternoon and past the scheduled time for the Sunshyday jump Ed donned his white coveralls and then his two chutes as he stood under the wing of the Stinshyson while Merrill with a screwdriver carefully removed the cabin door As he made his preparashytions a crowd gathered around Ed who was a very gregarious guy and enjoyed the friendly bantering with
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drums of gasoline specially delivshyered to the farmer s field by the local fuel supplier It was pumped into five gallon cans to be ready when Merrill returned so we could resume our passenger hopping with minishymum delay
A search for the Stinson showed it very high with the sounds of the lashyboring Whirlwind barely discemable It was nearly time for the push-off and it has been recorded before that 1 don t like parachute jumps so when I finished my refueling preparations I went over and sat on a gasoline can With nothing else to do I then busied myself counting the stubs of tickets already sold Pretty good
When at last I heard the oohs from the crowd it was known from past experience that Ed had left the airplane and was now falling free Reluctantly I stole a glance and yes there was the telltale streak of flour being painted earthward at frightful speed Ed himself could not yet be seen He was too high
cord his shiny black shoes and his goggled leather helmeted head
My God I thought Hell land on me As I took off and ran I heard a powerful wham as the chute opened jerked Ed upright then vioshylently pendulumed him up even with the straining bulging canopy He struck the ground on his side at the top of the swing but miraculously the impact was not hard He was not hurt although the wind was knocked from him
The crowd was closing around him but I pushed them aside to get to Ed As he rose to his feet and loosened his helmet strap I grabbed the front of his coveralls shook him as hard as 1 could and shouted with our no ses close to each other Ed if you ever do that again I II Well his little black mustache twitched and then he laughed I guess I shoulda had your altimeter The town girls pushed close to him He was a good-looking guy The girls all liked him and folshylowed him around
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I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
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3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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I have just completed the total restoration ofa 1929 Waco ASO and the instalshylation ofa Wright R 760-8 This aircraft NC608N was purchased new from the factory by the Texas Oil Company and was at that time their Texaco 7 In 1930 it towed the Texaco Eaglet glider from California to New York with Capt Frank Hawks piloting the glider and JD Jernigan flying the Waco
By Grady Sharp (EAA 3884 VAA 8560)
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
3 SCREWS 1200 APART
DRILL amp TAP DRILL
TURN FROM ALUM
THIS SALVAGED FROM A USED RECORDING TACH WITH WORM DRIVE TEETH
10 SEPTEMBER 1999
TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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214 INSTRUMENT CASE MODIFIED TO SUIT
FOR REMOVING THE CHUCK HERE FOR WORM DRIVE TEETH CLEANING UP
LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
3
1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
1
POWER STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
STROKE
ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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TURNED OFF IN LATHE
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LIVE CENTER IN HERE FOR SUPPORT WHILE TURNING
THE MOUNTING FLANGE
ENGINEPROPELLER POSITIONER FOR EXTENDED PARKING
This drawing is not to scale It only indicates the method of construction
Worm drive teeth being removed Since I have read and actually found the Wright
seems especially susceptible to having oil collect in the bottom two cylinders (and in the intake pipes depending on valve position) I set about fmding a way to prevent it from accumulating I had installed drains on cylinders 4 and 5 intake pipes having primer fittings into which I installed M520823-4D 45 degree el bows with AN929-4D caps As it turned out a drain on 4 intake is not often used unshyless you should inadvertently leave the engine where the exhaust in 4 is closed and the intake open Oil then can accumulate and will need drainshying
While working on this the March 98 issue of Sport Aviation arrived containing an article on Bob Hedgecock and his beautiful SM-2AA Stinson with a Wright R760-8 engine I wrote to Bob asking how he coped with the problem and he responded with a very nice helpful letter Thank you Bob
He too had drilled the exhaust elbow and was
clamped in a machinists vice the indishyfor installation
COMPRESSION STROKE 2
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1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
2 7 INTAKE STROKE
COMPRESSION 6 POWER STROKE 3 STROKE
EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
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ENGINE DRAWING No1 4 EXHAUST AND 5 INTAKE OPEN
INTAKE STROKE
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EXHAUST STROKE INTAKE
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ENGINE DRAWING No2 4 AND 5 VALVES ALL CLOSED
ONE REVOLUTION LATER
It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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1 using a drain on 5 intake and went on to say he just left the prop in a position where 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves were open What Bob didnt mention was how he arrived at this position but he did get me to thinking
I wanted to find a method of doing this quickly dependably and without tools This sent me back to the books for a review of the sequence of valve action stroke and their functioning relationship between two adjoining cylinders in this case cylinders 4 and 5 on the Wright 760 Using engine drawing No1 I found that 4 exhaust and 5 intake valves (these two cylinders lowest points) can be open at the same time but you do have to be careful in positioning the prop for this If you pull the front spark plug on 5 cylinder and position the prop based on seeing 5 intake valve in the open position you can be led astray the exhaust valve in 4 cylinder may not have yet opened Engine drawshying No 1 shows the intake stroke on 5 just ending and the exhaust stroke on 4 just beginning
What is important to remember is that the intake valve on 5 has been open since just before TDC and will remain open through the entire stroke and just beyond BDC Realizing this its now easier to visualize that you can read the open intake valve too early while the exhaust valve in 4 is still closed as that cylinder nears the end of its power stroke
Using cylinder 4 for prop positionshying gives assured results With its front plug removed and turning the prop by hand in the normal direction of rotation watch for that cylinders exhaust valve opening As it opens stop turning the prop - you have arrived Now note the alignment position of one of the prop blades in relationship to a cylinder and mark this blade with a tiny dot ofpaint It is this blade that you bring to the same positionalignment after each shutdown of the engine Obviously though during one of every two revolutions the blade will be positioned with all valves closed in cylinders 4 and 5 See engine drawing No 2 To find whether or not you re in the correct position means pulling 4 plug again to find the exhaust valve poshysition each time youre going to park for an extended peliod What that extended period is will depend on your own expeshyrience with your engine and its rate of oil consumption Removing a hot spark plug each time is a bit of a nuisance
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It was at this point that I realized that I could use the second of this engines dual tach drives for prop positioning The two drives are counter-rotating and the drive you use depends on the rotashytion of the tach youre using leaving the other drive unused Until now When you first fmd the proper blade alignment position with 4 exhaust valve opening as described note the clock position of
the slot in the drive shaft in the unused drive This initial finding is a one time event The tach drive rotates one-half of a revolution for every full revolution of the prop Place the marked blade in alignment reference after shutdown then check the clock position of the slot in the tach drive Ifits at the predetershymined clock position youre all set If its 1800 off then you will of course
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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have to go one more full revolution of the prop No tools and no handling of a hot spark plug
I could have stopped at this point but I took it further I constructed an instrushyment which I connected to the engine with a second tach cable (See drawing and photos)
I started with a suitable used 2-1 4 aircraft instrument The back of the body has been sawn off and discarded The case was mounted in a lathe turned true where sawn and brought to an estabshylished length Note here that no dimensions are given in the drawing They are determined during construction based on the parts collected The basic mechanical part in this device is taken from a used recording tachometer What were aiming for is to salvage just the bashysic threaded tach cable attachment with its integral bearing We take this piece and remove most of its bulk with a hackshysaw to a point where we can chuck it in a lathe to clean up both sides of what will become the mounting flange (Refer to the drawing) After doing this the flange can be further refined to a nice oval shape with two countersunk holes for the
drawing (indicated as flat head screws) Next the new aluminum end plate
can be turned per drawing and the center hole bored to accept the piece just deshyscribed above With the reworked tach cable attachment piece temporarily in place the two screw mounting holes can be drilled - the flange itself being the guide for this
It s now time to remove th e mild steel teeth from the worm gear this is easily done in the lathe Again refer to the drawing for chucking Remove the teeth and turn to a 14 diameter for the fitting of a round radio knob one with a white pointer line and and solid brass insert having an Allen head set screw A flat spot on the shaft can be filed for the setscrew and the screw seshycured with a drop of Locktite Removable ThreadlockerTM
Ive mounted my instrument (with a 337 field approval) just inside the the enshygine cowl but still visible from the outside Once the unit was connected the prop was placed into position the clock position of the white line noted and the instrument caseglass marked with a while reference point After future shutshy
downs place the marked prop blade into alignment position and check the instrushyment If its 1800 off tum the prop one full revolution Then hang a Please Do Not Touch sign on the prop reshymove the drain cap on 5 intake and place a drip pan under the engine Just don t forget to replace the cap before the next engine start
Where you mount the instrument is a personal choice You could even devise a small electronic unit giving an audio or light signal by using a proximity sensor mounted to detect a slot cut in a metal coliar replacing the radio knob All kinds of possibilities to have fun with If you wanted to mount this new instrushyment in the cockpit area ( but probably not where it would be twirling in front of your face) then you could add a dual tach drive unit between the existing tach cable and tachometer
One fmal note Other engines will difshyfer for instance the 220 hp Continental has the valves transposed from those on the Wright This article refers only to the 7-cylinder Wright Youll have to get fashymiliar with the valve timing for your particular engine installation
The restored Waco ASO
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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Fly-In Calendar The following list ofcoming events is furnished to our readers as a molter ofinformation only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fly market etc) listed Please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox Fo Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the event date
SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - LOUISE TX - Flying VRanch (T26) 10th annual Under the Wire jly-in Info Robbie Vajdos 409648-2163 orjlyingvwcnetnet
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - JACKSONVILLE IL - (lJX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunioll info Suzette Selig 630904-6964
SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
SEPTEMBER 18-19- ROCK FALLS IL - North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-In Forums workshyshopsjly-market Camping and Air Rally Info 630543-6743 or check our websiste at hllpmemshybersaolcomnceaa
SEPTEMBER 15 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tailwheels Fly-In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654
SEPTEMBER 15 - TOPPING VA - Humm el Air Field Wings amp Wh eels 99 9 am -3 pm (Rain
date 926) Info Jamie Bamhardt 804758-2753 on on the web at httpj7y tpwingsandwheels Eshymailwingsandwheelshotmail com
SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
SEPTEMBER 16 - GROVE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 161 Fly-In BreakfastLunch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200
OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
OCTOBER 1-3 - DARLINGTON SC - Fall Fly-In sponsored by Vintage Airplane Association Chapshyter 3 Info Call 910 947-1853 or FAX 757-873-3059
OCTOBER 6-10 - TULLAHOMA TN - Beech Party Staggerwing Twin Beech 18 and Beech ownerenthusiasts Sponsored by the Staggerwing Beech Muselllll Info 9311455-1974
OCTOBER 9 - HAMPTON NH - 9th Annual EAA Vintage Aircraft Assn Chaper 15 Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-InRafjle Drawing Rain date 10th Info 603539-7168
OCTOBER 7-10 - MESA AZ- Copperstate EAA Reshygional Fly-In at Williams Gateway Airport Contact Bob Hasson 3027706420
OCTOBER 8-10 - EVERGREEN AL - 9th Annual South Ellst Regional EAA Fly-In (SERFI) Airshow car show ULiLightplane operations area FlyshyMarket workshops FAA Wings Program Sat evening awards banquet with gllest speaker Campshying on field Info 334578-1707
OCTOBER 9-10 -FRANKLIN VA - Franklin Airshyport 29th Annual EAA Chapter 339 fly-in For more information contact Walt Ohlrich at 757486shy5192
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so begins Wacos advertisement in the April 13 1929 edition of Aviation magazine Full of the
hyperbole so prevalent of the advertisshying used in the roaring 20s the boundless copy-writing enthusiasm of the day was matched by the extraordishynary flying of the great Waco pilots of the day Len Povey who would later create the Cuban Eight while trainshying Batistas Cuban Air Force Freddie Lund first to perform an outside loop with a commercially available aircraft (prior to Freddies stunt the outside loop was the domain of a few military pilots) and Art Davis race pilot extrashyordinaire So many pilots made their careers bloom in the Waco it almost became a cliche
One of the airplanes made famous by Len Povey was a Waco ATO a Tashyperwing built as SIN A-20 NC6711 Len s initial brush with notoriety with this A TO almost cost him his life as well as one other famous aviator Heres what the late Ray Brandly the
Peering into the lockable baggage bay aft of the cockpit shows off just a bit of the beautishyful craftsmanship present in the Taperwing
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past president of the Waco Club wrote in his book Taperwing Wacos
While the American Air Aces Show was in Buffalo New York Len purchased his first airplane from a docshytor a J-5 Taperwing Waco NC67ll for which he paid $80000 Three days later while flying over Wilmington Delaware prior to the show Roy Hunt
fell out of a snap roll and connected with Poveys Taperwing Waco and were momentarily locked together When they broke away Povey had lost his right upper wing from the struts out Hunts engine fell completely out of the Great Lakes and he bailed out Len was sitting on a chute but he had Harold Neuman in the front cockpit
without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
-Continued on page 22
teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
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Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
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We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
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SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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Owner Jack Hooker
Hooker Custom Harness HCompany Airplane
Flown approx 100 hours
per year since purchased plane in 1989
Flown to Sun N Fun
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without a chute Harold told Len to jump but he could not leave his buddy Although the bright red Taperwing had lost four feet of its top right wing Povey was able to get the Waco down on Bellanca Field
The local constabulary grabbed Hunt and put him in jail - his engine fell smack dab into the roof of a house of ill repute in the dusky part of town setting quite a fire A customer was seen running out of the house and down the street clothed only in his undershywear Fortunately for the intrepid airman the Curtiss Candy Company had sponsored Hunt and he was covshyered by insurance
Len purchased a new right upper wing for $70000 and about a year later sold the Taperwing to Bevo Howard
Bevo s turn with the airplane was almost as exciting Bevo had to bail out of the airplane and while he was saved to fly another day the Tapershywing was reduced to little bits and pieces plus a good set of logs and pashyperwork Bevo was lucky to make it through unscathed according to the CAA accident report On September 29 1938 at 630 pm he took off from his FBO Hawthorne Aviation in Charleston SC bound for for Atlanta but encountered a triad of dangerous circumstances that nearly got him killed In well developed darkness the non-in s trument rated Bevo (at that time) and his Waco (which did not have blind flying instruments) ran into low clouds and reduced visibility Tryshying to get on top Bevo lost control of the airplane at about 730 pm and had to jump in darkness as the altimeter rapidly wound down past 500 feet The Taperwing impacted about 20 miles southeast of Columbia sc
Skip forward a bunch of decades and you get to the point where Roy Redman (EAA 83604 V AA 6600) of Rare Aircraft in Faribault MN and Jerry Wenger (EAA 169348 V AA 19366) of Powell WY come into our little drama
Long involved in the family busishyness Jerry Wenger has had his hands on high quality wood products for many years Those of us not involved in the music industry may not have heard the name but anyone whos played an instrument in a school band and looked at the label for their music stand acoustic panel riser or other mushysica l stage equipment will recognize
To help keep the 450 hp Wright E975-11 cool this small oil cooler mounted between the landing gear legs was fitted
Modern day meets yesterday with a multi-faceted windscreen that reminds you of the ittyshybitty racing windshields that were in vogue back then A cover over the front pit keeps the airflow over the aft cockpit smooth and undisturbed making cross country flights a lot more comfortable
the Wenger name as the foremost supshyplier of music equipment to everyone from school kids to major bands and orchestras Started in 1946 by Jerrys father Harry himself an award winshyning band director the company continues to innovate in the world of acoustics including a computer-conshytrolled acoustic she ll system that can recreate the sound enviroment of a vashyriety of rooms and hall s a virtual acoustic room that can allow a musishy
cian to hear his music as though he were playing in the Royal Albert Hall or a baroque hall of Mozarts day Such a successful company can proshyvide the resources to put together an impressive collection of anything your heart desires and fortunately for those of us who enjoy biplanes Jerry Wenger has a hankering for Wacos A few years ago many of you will recall the Waco F-2 restored by Roy Redman and the craftsmen at Rare Aircraft for
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
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BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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Jerry Jerry sure remembered and when he decided he really wings including the center section and ailerons Tapered wanted a Taperwing he went to Roy wings present all sorts of challenges to the builder Roy exshy
Because so much of the airplane was destroyed there plains wasnt a lot to go on but with the experience of the folks at The spars are not parallel nor are they on the same Rare that didnt present a huge problem At first due to plane They both converge and they are slanted (the front their current workload the wing building was given to an one anyway) So what you have to start off with - the rear outside contractor but as soon as they could the wings were spar is perpendicular to the butt rib so our jigging is very brought inhouse to be completed It takes the woodworkers precise to keep the rear spar and the butt rib at a 90deg angle at Rare about 500 man hours to build up a set of tapered You can then slide the ribs onto the rear spar but then you
must slide the spar into the ribs Now the challenge is that your rib jigging and rib construction has to
Roy Redman (left) and Jerry Wenger (right) with what else the TAPERWING be quite precise because if the pieces that hold the rib to the spar are not quite in the right place then the rib isnt going to be in the right place or the rib isnt going to be parallel to its neighbors
From there on the final setup of the wing is fairly normal although trammeling the wing is not exactly the same - its really checking precise meashysurements for each wire against the blueprints
Included in the wing construction is the building of a set of ailerons Model airplane builders may find this has a familiar ring Again Roy Redman
The next challenge is the aileron exercise It can be very tedious [to build the wood ailerons] and going to the aluminum ailerons as they did in
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
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Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
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BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
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SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
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SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
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SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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teresting to know what old Giuseppe Belshy
lanca would have to say if he could see how well his elegant atshy
tempts at efficient flight have stood the test of time Over sixty years after he first laid down the lines for what he
envisioned as a high speed airplane for the private pilot the little round nosed Bellanc Jr its descendants are still held in high reshygard not only for their performance but for what many see as their well balanced hanshydling Its quite common these days to hear of someone getting their first ride in a Belshy
lanca almost any Bellanca and coming away with a gottahaveone attitude
Ozzie Levi (EAA 355912 VAA 1) of Lancaster Califorshy
is one of those
Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
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We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
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Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
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President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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OCTOBER 9-10 -FRANKLIN VA - Franklin Airshyport 29th Annual EAA Chapter 339 fly-in For more information contact Walt Ohlrich at 757486shy5192
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Ozzie says he was happy with the long string of Luscombes hed owned but one ride in a Bellanca Cruisair convinced him he had to have one
Most folks like the way a Bellanca flies but it is usually an intuitive thing rather than a quantitative knowing based on extensive prior aircraft handling experience We like them just because we like them Ozzie however brought more than a casual interest in airplanes to his likshying for the airplane as he has spent his life involved in the flight testing of new aircraft as an engineer and project manager The string of proshyjects in which he has been involved span the technological development of post war aviation
One of his first jobs was with Sikorsky in Connecticut where he was part of the earliest pioneering of practical helicopters including the Sshy55 and S-56 which set the pace for military use of helicopters during the Korean War Then there was his stint at Edwards on the Ryan X-13 Vertishyjet For those who dont know the airplane it was a delta winged vertishycal takeoff jet that upon landing
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would hover into a nose-up vershytical position and then chin itself on a horizontal arresting cable I
and hang there like a bat Ozzie points to the program with pride and says Its the only X-plane program that finished the proshygram with the same number of aircraft it started with
In 57 he was working on the F-I05 at Republic a wonderful airplane but only had one enshygine and later the Gyrodyne an unmanned helicopter drone
His longest stretch was at Northrop where he was heavily involved in flight test and manshyagement of advanced programs which included the T-38 F-5 OzzieLeviLancasterCA and F-117
Although an engineer in the which eventually led to a long line of back of his mind he was always a pishy 8As and 8Es Somewhere along the lot whether he was actually line however he got his first ride in a exercising the skills or not Starting as Bellanca and after that first flight I a pre-aviation cadet in WWII he didshy always wanted one They handle nt actually start taking training until beautifully and are good for serious out of college you know kids famshy cross countries or just running over to ily the usual things slowed me get a hamburger down From the flying club he gradshy He got out of flying for a little uated into buying a Luscombe 8A while but when he came back into it
he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
Our September Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 54903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than October 25 1999 so they can be inshycluded in the December issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg
Be certain to include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180
BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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Fly-In Calendar The following list ofcoming events is furnished to our readers as a molter ofinformation only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fly market etc) listed Please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox Fo Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the event date
SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - LOUISE TX - Flying VRanch (T26) 10th annual Under the Wire jly-in Info Robbie Vajdos 409648-2163 orjlyingvwcnetnet
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - JACKSONVILLE IL - (lJX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunioll info Suzette Selig 630904-6964
SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
SEPTEMBER 18-19- ROCK FALLS IL - North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-In Forums workshyshopsjly-market Camping and Air Rally Info 630543-6743 or check our websiste at hllpmemshybersaolcomnceaa
SEPTEMBER 15 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tailwheels Fly-In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654
SEPTEMBER 15 - TOPPING VA - Humm el Air Field Wings amp Wh eels 99 9 am -3 pm (Rain
date 926) Info Jamie Bamhardt 804758-2753 on on the web at httpj7y tpwingsandwheels Eshymailwingsandwheelshotmail com
SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
SEPTEMBER 16 - GROVE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 161 Fly-In BreakfastLunch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200
OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
OCTOBER 1-3 - DARLINGTON SC - Fall Fly-In sponsored by Vintage Airplane Association Chapshyter 3 Info Call 910 947-1853 or FAX 757-873-3059
OCTOBER 6-10 - TULLAHOMA TN - Beech Party Staggerwing Twin Beech 18 and Beech ownerenthusiasts Sponsored by the Staggerwing Beech Muselllll Info 9311455-1974
OCTOBER 9 - HAMPTON NH - 9th Annual EAA Vintage Aircraft Assn Chaper 15 Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-InRafjle Drawing Rain date 10th Info 603539-7168
OCTOBER 7-10 - MESA AZ- Copperstate EAA Reshygional Fly-In at Williams Gateway Airport Contact Bob Hasson 3027706420
OCTOBER 8-10 - EVERGREEN AL - 9th Annual South Ellst Regional EAA Fly-In (SERFI) Airshow car show ULiLightplane operations area FlyshyMarket workshops FAA Wings Program Sat evening awards banquet with gllest speaker Campshying on field Info 334578-1707
OCTOBER 9-10 -FRANKLIN VA - Franklin Airshyport 29th Annual EAA Chapter 339 fly-in For more information contact Walt Ohlrich at 757486shy5192
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he knew a Bellanca would be his next air shyplane Part of what cinched his owning a Cruisair was that one on his local field at Santa Paula California suddenly came up for sale It was a stock Cruisair that had had its 150 Franklin replaced with the healthier 165 Franklin The airplane had never been allowed to go derelict although its previous owner Lou Boise had gone through it from stem to stern and carefully restored the wood which if left unattended on a Bellanca can result in major headaches Lou also replaced the bicyshycle chain gear actuation system with a hydraulic system which used a DC-3 pump The gear now took only five pumps to get it up and only a few pumps to lock it down as it Triple tails and the strong as a tree Bellanca wing give the Cruisair a sharp look
that is still maintained today in the Bellanca Viking free falls most of the way So by the time Ozzie began getting serious about buying a Bellanca Lou had already put in all of the hard work and all Ozzie had to do was sign on the dotted line
Ozzie and his partner Jerry Coates had their Bellanca and were loving it In fact they were loving it right up to the point several years later when the Franklin decided to begin nibbling on its own cam which sent metal throughshyout the engine Faced with a total overhaul on an engine that was becoming increasingly difficult to overhaul Ozzies engineering mind began looking in other direcshytions Why not replace the engine with something a little more modern and easier to maintain And if it had more power all the better
Although Ozzie and Jerry (who did most of the deshysign work) ran most available engines through his mind the 180 Lycoming was the only one in serious conshytention if nothing else because it was the right size and weight Also there were a reasonable number available
Ozzie also quickly points out that one of the major reashysons the project worked out so well and with relatively few paperwork problems was that he had a local FAA type who understood Bellancas and was more interested in solving problems than weighing the project down with documentation
The engine he wound up with was an orphaned 0-360shyA I D with no logs They overhauled the engine and mated it with a 72 McCauley prop because that was compatishyble with the engine and was available
The first question was how and where to mount the enshygine Ozzie put the prop disk in the same place as the original and found in calculating the weight distribution that the eG was hardly affected at all So thats where the engine would hang But on what He says We used a Pitts type mount configuration right at the engine and joined that to the Bellanca configuration at the firewall It
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
September Mystery Plane
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by HG Frautschy
We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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Having made the long cross-country trip from California Ozzie enjoys the ability of the Cruisair Sr to make a sojourn of that magnatude comfortable
actually worked out very smoothly When running the engine controls
back to the cockpit they did their best to adhere to the original cockpit layshyout so they put the governorprop control in the same hole which had previously held the crank for the origshyinal prop
When it came time to cowl the enshygine the first of many EAAers to help on the project stepped forward Ozzie points with pride to the brass plaque on the cowling which memorishyalizes the late Jim Osenga as being part of the team with Dan Burdette who fabricated the cowling They used the usual cover the engine with foam and start whittling approach to cowling construction The lines and openings were worked out by owners Levi and Coates but it was Burdette and Osenga who worked out the deshytails laid up the glass and got the cowling ready for paint It was neither a quick nor an easy process but their craftsmanship is obvious
In speaking about the airplane Ozzie is insistent that everyone knows how important local EAAers were to the project He says every time he or his partner had a question or needed something done that was beyond them there was someone standing
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pardon the play on words in the wings ready to help Among them were Mike Grimes their FAA bridge who owned a similar aircraft and Bob Critchlow and Rodger Hilyard who Ozzie characterizes as being willing hands
He talks about the entire crew who helped as being smart good guys and even better friends
Ozzie also likes to point out the litshytle Pluto character sitting on its panel as some sort of patron saint of Bellanshycas We had the airplane at Oshkosh 94 and left it for a while When we came back Pluto was sitting on the wing as if guarding it So we took
that as an omen and hes been part of the flight crew every since
They began flying the airplane in 1993 and it has been abshysolutely trouble free from the first flight Ozzie says the cruise speed was only impacted a little bringing it up to a solid 150 mph T AS at 10000 feet while burning 77 gph This is an increase of 5-7 mph As would be expected the real imshyprovement was in climb This made a real airplane out of it as it nearly doubled the rate of climb Before it would do 500 fpm if you were lucky Now its always giving us 1000 fpm plus
So whats next for Ozzie Levi Whats the next airplane in line He says I dont think there is one This one is a keeper because it does everything I want and it does it so
well It is smooth handling and on landing youd have to be an idiot or asleep or both to lose it What I am going to do is keep improving it
The improvements he has in mind include reducing the amount of cowlshying air inlet because 1 think we were being too conservative I think we can tighten it up and get a little more speed out of it
Is he thinking about some of the speed mods like gear doors flap fairshyings etc No I like it the way it is Its simple its uncomplicated and its honest I just couldn t ask for any more out of an airplane
Now we see why its a keeper
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We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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We knew it was a longshot but nobody had a clue as to the identity ofthe June Mystery Plane We had hoped that the photos by Pete Bowshyers would jog some distant memory ofone ofyou but the short-coupled biplane shown the photos seems to be lost in the cobwebs ofone-offdeshysigns that we never saw again Weve included another shot also provided by Pete which shows the airplane from a different angle Thats noted Ford Tri-Motor authority Bill Larkins peering into the innards of the little ship Any more ideas
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-TAPERWING Continuedfrompage 16
31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
For information regarding the Adshyvance Aircraft logo mentioned in the text contact
Waco Historical Society Inc P O Box 62 Troy OH 45373-0062 Phone 937335- WACO (9226)
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PASS IT TO B UCK by EE Buck Hilbert
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BIPLANE EXPO 99
Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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Fly-In Calendar The following list ofcoming events is furnished to our readers as a molter ofinformation only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fly market etc) listed Please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox Fo Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the event date
SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - LOUISE TX - Flying VRanch (T26) 10th annual Under the Wire jly-in Info Robbie Vajdos 409648-2163 orjlyingvwcnetnet
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - JACKSONVILLE IL - (lJX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunioll info Suzette Selig 630904-6964
SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
SEPTEMBER 18-19- ROCK FALLS IL - North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-In Forums workshyshopsjly-market Camping and Air Rally Info 630543-6743 or check our websiste at hllpmemshybersaolcomnceaa
SEPTEMBER 15 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tailwheels Fly-In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654
SEPTEMBER 15 - TOPPING VA - Humm el Air Field Wings amp Wh eels 99 9 am -3 pm (Rain
date 926) Info Jamie Bamhardt 804758-2753 on on the web at httpj7y tpwingsandwheels Eshymailwingsandwheelshotmail com
SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
SEPTEMBER 16 - GROVE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 161 Fly-In BreakfastLunch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200
OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
OCTOBER 1-3 - DARLINGTON SC - Fall Fly-In sponsored by Vintage Airplane Association Chapshyter 3 Info Call 910 947-1853 or FAX 757-873-3059
OCTOBER 6-10 - TULLAHOMA TN - Beech Party Staggerwing Twin Beech 18 and Beech ownerenthusiasts Sponsored by the Staggerwing Beech Muselllll Info 9311455-1974
OCTOBER 9 - HAMPTON NH - 9th Annual EAA Vintage Aircraft Assn Chaper 15 Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-InRafjle Drawing Rain date 10th Info 603539-7168
OCTOBER 7-10 - MESA AZ- Copperstate EAA Reshygional Fly-In at Williams Gateway Airport Contact Bob Hasson 3027706420
OCTOBER 8-10 - EVERGREEN AL - 9th Annual South Ellst Regional EAA Fly-In (SERFI) Airshow car show ULiLightplane operations area FlyshyMarket workshops FAA Wings Program Sat evening awards banquet with gllest speaker Campshying on field Info 334578-1707
OCTOBER 9-10 -FRANKLIN VA - Franklin Airshyport 29th Annual EAA Chapter 339 fly-in For more information contact Walt Ohlrich at 757486shy5192
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31 was a move I can understand Beshycause prior to that the little Waco F the R and others the ailerons had built up ribs They dont look very complishycated but it is just a tedious task because of the false spars and it isnt perpendicular and the butt ribs arent perpendicular and all of that But what you do is literally build the wing withshyout an aileron You build a complete wing and then you build a false spar and slide that false spar in just the way
you slid in the front spar Then you litshyerally cut off the ribs Now there are some pieces you have to build and put in during the process but your wing is your jig for the aileron
With four ailerons the Taperwing had a wonderful roll rate which is one of the reasons it was so popular with
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stunt pilots over the years Slave struts are used to actuate the ailerons and in the old days they used to vibrate in certain flight regimes Anecdotal evishydence says that this was a fairly common occurrence on the Waco 10 as well as the Straightwings and Tashyperwings To unbalance the struts aerodynamically in the old days they used to cement a string along one side to upset the airflow slightly curing the dancing strut
Roys cure is more elegant from an engineering standpoint In the old days one end of the strut was adjustable
while the other was a fixed bushing in the opposite end On later models Waco cured the problem too so Roy simshyply used their fix - make both ends adjustable so the slave strut can be rigged to have a
zero set angle of attack so it cannot osshycillate The only time theyve seen the strut vibrate is when the biplane is beshying flown in an uncoordinated manner Ninety-nine percent of the time the struts never wiggle
Jerry does not let his airplanes sit for too long and believes in flying
them far and wide so there are a numshyber of customizations that make it an open cockpit cruising machine
A Scott tailwheel helps keep the Tashyperwing manageable on paved runways and a special not-quite-racshying but racy looking windshield keeps the prop blast off your face The multishyfaceted windscreen combines the look of the low flat windscreens used on racing Wacos with the more upright three piece units used on more pedesshytrian versions of the airplanes You dont see it in the photos but there is a second windscreen for the forward
cockpit which is covered by a racing cover for the photos Like much of the metalwork on the Taperwing Roy credits Tom Novak with the windshyscreens flawless creation Roys son Jeremy is also one of the metalsmiths and has been learning a lot from Tom becoming quite adept at compound curve work
One of the most custom features of the airplane is quite prominent - in the best tradition of the airshow pilots of today and yesterday there s a name scripted in gold on the wings This time its not the pilot or an advertiser
but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
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Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
- - painted stripe is surrounded by a keyline of red and the darker color is a soft metallic blue
President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
Hatz craftsman from Texas Billy Dawson
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
Bob Howies gorgeous Warner-powered Waco RNF (left) flew over from Decatur IL as did his Laird LC-B-200 (below) powered by the original Wright engine
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but the airplane itself with the word Taperwing emblazoned on the top wing The actual lettering of the Tashyperwing on the wing was done by eminent sign painterartist Bucky Roosmalen who also hails from Faribshyault MN His association with Roy goes back many years in fact it was Bucky who painted the Stinson bow and arrow logo on Roys award-winshyning Stinson SR-8C Gullwing (It was the Grand Champion Antique at EAA Oshkosh in 1982)
The color scheme designed by Jerry while collaborating with Roy and executed by Rare Aircraft looks as it should on a sleek biplane and is a combination of many of the striping patterns in vogue in the old days The project started out pretty stock and reshymains very true to the type but the little custom touches help make it Jerrys and fly it he does Both he and Roy have flown extensive cross countr flights including Minnesota to Florida and Florida to Washington DC as well as a flights from the Midshywest to Wyoming
Roy gives Jerry a ton of credit for his drive innovation and spirit that he puts into the restorations hes inshyvolved with - much of what happens is due to his creativity Roy points to the color scheme as a prime example of his involvement in the creation of the airplane
Jerry on the other hand knows very well whose talented hands created the Waco - all the folks at Rare Aircraft including Tom Novak Matt Vonshyruden Jeremy Ben and Mike Redman Ryan Gillette Joe Lewellen Matt Haefmeyer Ella Bibe and Judie and Freddie
The beautiful Advance Aircraft decals on the sides of the fuselage are a modern wonder I ve put the word decal in quotes here because they are not the usual water-transfer decals we recall from our frustrations in building model airplanes but a modshyern recreation that is much more durable if not more painstaking to produce in some respects
When first made decals were a wonder of the new modern printing age A piece of artwork often of mulshytiple colors was screen printed onto a coat of clear lacquer which was in turn applied to a piece of paper that has a water-soluble cement coating Soak it in water the cement loosens its
grip and you can slide the artwork onto any surface The only problem with it was its poor ability to stand up to weather Often a couple of coats of dope were applied over the decal to protect it but it still didnt last as long as the finish it was applied over But with the advent of modem plastics we have something better
Coupled with the computer-driven cutter very intricate designs can be created out of film plastics such as Mylarreg Modernistic in St Paul MN did just that with the Advance logo The artwork to create the four color logo was done by another artist and purchased by Jerry and Rare Aircraft Modernistic then scanned the artwork so the cutter could do its thing and the whole four color set of Mylars was apshyplied to one large piece of clear Mylar Trimmed to just a little bit larger than the overall logo once applied it looks only a tiny bit thicker than the original lacquer-based decal but is much more durable The company actually made 53 of the logos with three being used by Jerry for the Waco (one as a spare) Jerry then donated the remaining 50 logo decals to the Waco Historical Society who can use them to help generate funds to further the cause of the organization
By the way youll note the original N-number is not on the airplane SIN A-142 was originally NC6711 but these days the number is NC6714 Early attempts to get the number back failed that is until fellow Waco friend Jimmy Rollison of California would wind up with the Lockheed registered with N6711 Jimmy has offered to help with the paperwork the get 6711 back on the Waco so a slight revision to the PPG Durathane finish will get to be made in the future
For serviceability the brakes are BT -13 brakes available from Dusters and Sprayers who can supply all the soft parts (seals springs etc) On the big wheels a pair of Model A 500x20 tires with tread were used so they could be readily replaced
Looking at the nose of the Waco can really take a bit of time since the newly overhauled Wright R975-11 is so neatly installed it just begs to be looked at The engine is built up so it too can be a reliable cross-country enshygine Smoothness can go a long way to minimizing mechanical problems and as automobile manufacturers have fi shy
nally discovered fuel injection can go a long way to evening out the fuelair mixture Certainly not a new invenshytion fuel injection has been around a long time but you dont often see it on lightplanes (the Aeronca L-16 with its EX-CELL-O system comes to mind as an exception) For the Taperwings 450 hp Wright a Bendix RS 1 OG was added to the installation by Rare Airshycraft a non-standard alteration that did have to be addressed when the biplane was certificated The engine work done by Darryl Williams of Younkin Radial Engines in Fayetteville AR is first class and includes a set of test run cylinders a new old-stock set with only test cell time on them
The exhaust is custom with a bit of old design and look to it as well Aerospace Welders in Burnsville MN did the final finish work after a jig was created at Rare Aircraft by usshying a core engine The beautiful sheet metal cowling culminates in a full spinner one of a set engineered and spun under the guidance of Tom Hegy (EAA 6849 VAA 16421) from Hartshyford WI
Okay enough of the tech talk Whatll it do right With a straight face (and I watched them too) both Roy and Jerry say it will cruise at ISO mph without pushing the airplane hard at all Which brings up another point that Roy highlighted during our conshyversation Sure today its no big deal to zip across the country in a lightshyplane making a Minnesota to Louisiana cross-country run pretty easy In the Waco it too is possible and has been since 1929 Only a coushyple of avionics items make it a bit easier to navigate but imagine what a leap it must have been to the earthshybound inhabitants used to the cross-country capabilities of a Ford Model A 25 mph Maybe 35 on one of the few paved sections of the new Lincoln Highway But a Taperwing Waco could zip along at 135 mph with no trouble at all a magic carpet thunshydering over the countryside What magic it must have seemed to be
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
We rode the new 777 to DEN and then a stretch 727 to TUL Someshytimes age has its privileges we got first-class on both of them Avis fixed us up with a car and we drove to Baltlesville
Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
Over to You rr ~tltck ~
Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
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President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
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Two-hundred and fourteen airshyplanes Ninety-three biplanes and the rest insignificant others And that s how Charlie Harris began his speech before the awards presentashytions at the 13th Annual Biplane Expo June 4-5
Charlie has been harping cajoling and threatening HG and myself for several years about attending the Biplane Expo Somehow we never seemed to make it This time fresh back from the Kansas City Antiquers bash at Atchison Kansas where again Charlie Harris twisted my thinking into maybe Id better attend or be blackballed for the rest of my life I made the decision to go come tomadoes or whatever
I called HG but again previshyous commitments wouldnt allow him to break away so I repacked the bag got Dorothy all enthused and after perusing the weather we deshy
cided maybe United passes would be used The only fly in the ointment was UAL doesnt have non-stops to Tulsa the nearest major station and we had to hub it through Denver We did and it wasn t bad at all (Hold on a minute Th ere s a T-6 doin passes down the runway I gotta go wave at him)
Dont know the guy but he made a couple passes and then headed off towards Rockford Nice looking T-6 painted aluminum with black buss numbers Maybe Ill get a call later on
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Like most airports these days its Hard to Find but we finally got there There were already 40 or 50
biplanes parked and the usual socialshyizing was already taking place Charlie Harri s the Prex took us on a tour of the museum-hangar and the facility We were suitably imshypressed especially when told the place was unencumbered meaning its paid for
I took a lot of pictures but they were mostly of airplanes The Guest of Honor was General Paul Tibbets the commander of the Enola Gay His speech at the banquet and his very presence were electrifying for the enthusiasts in attendance I didshynt get a picture of him but Ill tell you right now he knows who I am As I reached across the table to shake his hand I tipped over a water glass Ice water in your lap is sure to make an impress ion
Here some of the pictures I took What a great weekend
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Dorothy pauses in front of the Biplane Center headquarters for the National Biplane Association on Frank Phillips Field in Tulsa OK Biplanes biplanes biplanes as far as you care to walk
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This blue and white Waco YKS-7 is registered to William Harter of Belleville IL
Mike Wittmann of Santa Cruz CA owns this handshysome Waco YKS-7 complete with a polished alushyminum funnel stripe on the engine cowl The silver
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President of the American Waco Club and VAA Board member Phil Coulson (left) and Roscoe Morton renowned airshow announcer enjoyed the biplane fly-in
Biplanes are biplanes and you see all sorts of the kind on the field includ ing many homebuilts This Kelly D is owned by Bert Bahnson of Advance NC who has been busy documentshying each of the many fly-ins hes attended with the biplane
Another homebuilt that is very popular with the antique=adiII crowd is the beautiful Hatz HC-1 This one was bu ilt by the
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
(Below) They flew from all over - not just the West but from the deep South as well Ed Martins DH-82A Tiger Moth came to Tulsa from Lake Charles LA
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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This beautiful brute is actually a well-revised Boeing PT-17 doing its best to look like one of the Gulfhawk series Jim Younkin of Springdale AR did the honors with his tradeshymark fairing work its spectacular best Man can this guy work metal
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
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Aerial Ads (note the tailhook) owns this Boeing N2S-3 which is equipped with a Rawdon hood over the cockpits
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SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
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SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
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SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
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OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
OCTOBER 1-3 - DARLINGTON SC - Fall Fly-In sponsored by Vintage Airplane Association Chapshyter 3 Info Call 910 947-1853 or FAX 757-873-3059
OCTOBER 6-10 - TULLAHOMA TN - Beech Party Staggerwing Twin Beech 18 and Beech ownerenthusiasts Sponsored by the Staggerwing Beech Muselllll Info 9311455-1974
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Fly-In Calendar The following list ofcoming events is furnished to our readers as a molter ofinformation only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fly market etc) listed Please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox Fo Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the event date
SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
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SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - LOUISE TX - Flying VRanch (T26) 10th annual Under the Wire jly-in Info Robbie Vajdos 409648-2163 orjlyingvwcnetnet
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - JACKSONVILLE IL - (lJX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunioll info Suzette Selig 630904-6964
SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
SEPTEMBER 18-19- ROCK FALLS IL - North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-In Forums workshyshopsjly-market Camping and Air Rally Info 630543-6743 or check our websiste at hllpmemshybersaolcomnceaa
SEPTEMBER 15 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tailwheels Fly-In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654
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SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
SEPTEMBER 16 - GROVE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 161 Fly-In BreakfastLunch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200
OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
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Fly-In Calendar The following list ofcoming events is furnished to our readers as a molter ofinformation only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fly market etc) listed Please send the information to EAA All Golda Cox Fo Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be receivedfour months prior to the event date
SEPTEMBER 10012 -ATWA TER CALIFORNIA shyGolden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Airport Contact wwwgwjly-inorg
SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly-In Antique car show book sale pancake breakfast Info 800947-0581
SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARION OHIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly-In Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455
SEPTEMBER 1I-11-EASTON PA - EAA Chapter 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly-In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft Info 6i 0588-0620
SEPTEMBER 11- MT MORRIS IL - Ogle County Airport (C55) Ogle Coullty Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-in Breakfast 7am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-636
SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK - Frank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapter 10 lA C Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 and the Green County Ultralight Flyers All types ofaircraji and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Adshymission is by donation Info Charles W Harris 918622-8400
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - LOUISE TX - Flying VRanch (T26) 10th annual Under the Wire jly-in Info Robbie Vajdos 409648-2163 orjlyingvwcnetnet
SEPTEMBER 17-19 - JACKSONVILLE IL - (lJX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunioll info Suzette Selig 630904-6964
SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroshyplane Fly-In 7all-noon Info 607547-2526
SEPTEMBER 18-19- ROCK FALLS IL - North Central EAA Old Fashioned Fly-In Forums workshyshopsjly-market Camping and Air Rally Info 630543-6743 or check our websiste at hllpmemshybersaolcomnceaa
SEPTEMBER 15 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tailwheels Fly-In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654
SEPTEMBER 15 - TOPPING VA - Humm el Air Field Wings amp Wh eels 99 9 am -3 pm (Rain
date 926) Info Jamie Bamhardt 804758-2753 on on the web at httpj7y tpwingsandwheels Eshymailwingsandwheelshotmail com
SEPTEMBER 15-16-ZANESVILLE OH - John s Landing 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-In Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the airport at 740455-9900
SEPTEMBER 16 - GROVE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 161 Fly-In BreakfastLunch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200
OCTOBER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft collector Budfield Private Museum tour San Francisco Bay Area Tour Memorabilia auction good food and more Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Blld Field 925455-2300
OCTOBER 1-3 - DARLINGTON SC - Fall Fly-In sponsored by Vintage Airplane Association Chapshyter 3 Info Call 910 947-1853 or FAX 757-873-3059
OCTOBER 6-10 - TULLAHOMA TN - Beech Party Staggerwing Twin Beech 18 and Beech ownerenthusiasts Sponsored by the Staggerwing Beech Muselllll Info 9311455-1974
OCTOBER 9 - HAMPTON NH - 9th Annual EAA Vintage Aircraft Assn Chaper 15 Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-InRafjle Drawing Rain date 10th Info 603539-7168
OCTOBER 7-10 - MESA AZ- Copperstate EAA Reshygional Fly-In at Williams Gateway Airport Contact Bob Hasson 3027706420
OCTOBER 8-10 - EVERGREEN AL - 9th Annual South Ellst Regional EAA Fly-In (SERFI) Airshow car show ULiLightplane operations area FlyshyMarket workshops FAA Wings Program Sat evening awards banquet with gllest speaker Campshying on field Info 334578-1707
OCTOBER 9-10 -FRANKLIN VA - Franklin Airshyport 29th Annual EAA Chapter 339 fly-in For more information contact Walt Ohlrich at 757486shy5192
OCTOBER 14-16 -ABILENE TX - Southwest poundAA Regional Fly- In Abilene Regional Airport (ABI) rnfo 1-800727-7704
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Clubhouse Jackets High quality jackets feature two-button adjustable cuffs elastic waistshyband inside coat hook loop inside pocket with velcro closure and more Contrasting color trim pieces and adjustable lanyard cord on collar make this jacket very distinctive Shell and lining are both 100 nylon NaturalNavy Trim SM-XL V41250 $6399
2X V41254 $6699 NavyForest Green Trim SM-XL V41250 $6399
2X V41254 $6699
Denim Short-sleeved Shirts with Button-down collar by Three Rivers Features button-closure on pocket Double stitching on sleeves for durability 100 cotton SM-XL V41263 $3699 2X V41267 $3999
Denim Long-sleeved Shirts with Button-down Collar Similar to above shirt but in long-sleeved design The shirts feature twoshybutton adjustable cuffs Available in light-blue denim or natural colors Natural MD-XL V41268 $3999
2X V41271 $4399 Light Blue MD-XL V41272 $3999
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Cotton Pique Golf Shirts 100 combed cotton Knit collar and cuffs Two-button placket Drop-tail with side vents White SM-XL V41294 $3299
2X V41298 $3499 Khaki SM-XL V41299 $3299
2X V41303 $3499 Navy SM-XL V41289 $3299
2X V41293 $3499
Jacuard Golf Shirts 100 combed cotton Knit collar and cuffs with beige trim Fiveshybutton placket Drop tail with side vents Wine MD-XL V41281 $3499
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Membershi~ Services Directory_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President VicemiddotPresident Espie middotButchmiddot Joyce George Daubner
PO Box 35584 2448 Lough Lane Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027
910393-0344 414673-5885 e~mail windsockaotcom e-mail an~que2aolcom
TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nesse 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Leo MN 56007
918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom
DIRECTORS Robert C middotBobmiddot Brauer steve Krog
9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027
773779-2105 414966-7627 e-mail photopilotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom
John Berendt 7645 Echo Point Rd Robert Lickteig
Cannon Falls MN 55009 1708 Boy Oaks Dr 507263-2414 Albert Lea MN 56007
507373-2922 John S Copeland 1 A Deacon Street Robert D middotBobmiddot Lumley
Northborough MA 01532 1265 Sourth 124th St 508393-4775 Brookfield WI 53005
e-mail 414782-2633 copelandljunocom ampmail
lumperexecpccom Phil Coulson
28415 Springbrook Dr Lawton MI 49065 Gene Morris
616624-6490 5936 Steve Court Roanoke TX 76262
Roger Gomoll 817491-9110 321-12 S Broadway 3 e-mail n03captfiashnet Rochester MN 55904
507288-2810 Dean Richardson rgomollheritagehallsorg 6701 Colony Dr
Madison WI 53717 Dale A Gustafson 608833-1291 7724 Shady Hill Dr darresprodcom
Indianapolis IN 46278 317293-4430
Geoff Robison Jeannie Hill 1521 E MacGregor Dr
New Haven IN 46774 Harvard IL 60033
PO Box 328 219493-4724
815943-7205 e-mail chief7025aolcom
SH Wes Schmid 2359 Leleber Avenue Wauwaioso W153213
41477l-l545 shschmldexecpccom
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Gene Chase EE middotBuck middot Hilbert 2159 Carllon Rd PO Box 424
Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 920231-5002 815923-4591
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Grass Valley CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 5301268-1585 630466-4193
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Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy 1999 by the EM Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved
VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) IPM t482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Vintage Aircraft Associatioo of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Ostlkosh Wiscoosin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additiooal mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes 10 EM AntiqueClassic Divisioo Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two monlhs for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surtace mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee Of endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken EDrrORIAL POLICY Readers are encouraged to submtt stories and photographs Policy opinioos expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests enti1y with the contributor No renumeratioo is madeMaterial shoukJ be sent to Edttor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Ostlkosh WI 54903-3086 Phooe 9201426-4800 The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EAA EAA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarks THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVenure are tradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited
30 SEPTEMBER 1999
Jock Hooker in flight in his Cessna 120
Gr
Jack Hooker
Freeport IL
Owner Jack Hooker
Hooker Custom Harness HCompany Airplane
Flown approx 100 hours
per year since purchased plane in 1989
Flown to Sun N Fun
every year since )990
AUAis
~ approved
To become a
member of the
Vintage Aircraft
Association call
800-843-3612
II have been insured with AUA Inc
since 1989 After having the misfortune
of having a claim I can attest that the
claim was handled promptly and my
rates are good
lThank you AUAI
- Jack Hooker
The best is affordable
Give AUA a call - its FREE
800-727-3823 Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
AUAs Exclusive EAA Vintage Aircraft Assoc Insurance Program
Lower liobili~ and hull premiums
Medical pay ents included
Fleet discount for multiple aircraft carrying all risk coverages
No hand-prop-ping exclusion
No age pena ty
No componelilt parts endorsements
Discounts for laim-free renewals carryin all risk coverages
Remember Were Better Together
AVIATION UNLIMITED AGENCY
The Web Goes
Vintage For the latest news and happenings on EAAs
Vintage Aircraft plug into wwweaaorg
The site includesthe homepage for EAAs largest Division
the Vintage Aircraft Association Access it directly at
wwwvintageaircraftorg
Check out the most up-to-date Type Club listJudging Guidelines and a tribute to J04A volunteers as well as plenty ofother information geared towards people who love the
Golden Age ofAviation
VINTAGE TRADER
Something to buy sell or trade An inexpensive ad in the Vintage Trader may be just the answer to obtaining that elusive part 50cent per word $800 minimum charge Send your ad and payment to Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 or Jax your ad and your credit card number to 920426shy4828 Ads must be received by the 20th oJthe monthJor insertion in the issue the second month Jollowing (eg October 20thJor the December issue)
MISCElLANEOUS
BABBln BEARING SERVICE - rod bearings main bearings camshaft bearings master rods valves Call us Toll Free 1800233-6934 e-mail ramremfgaolcom Web site httpwww ramenginecom VINTAGE ENGINE MACHINE WORKS N 604 FREYA ST SPOKANE WA 99202
FREE CATALOG Aviation books and videos How to building and restoration tips historic flying and entertainshyment titles Call for a free catalog EM 1-800-843-3612
Newsletters for ArcticInterstate (6 Back issues$900) BeaverOtter (3$500) Norseman (16$2100) $16504 issues Free sample write call fax ALL credit cards accepted Dave Neumeister Publisher 5630 South Washington Lansing MI48911-4999 800594-4634517882-8433 Fax 800596-8341 517882-8341
BROWN BACK TIGERIAnzani 90hp need info and spare parts for this 6 cylinder twin row radial Ralph Graham St Paul MN (651)452-3629 e-mail GevonGaolcom
Continental cylinders from annualed 0-99) 0-300 Complete wpistons pins valves springs push rods and connectshying rods Minus rockers $275 per cylinder BT-13 AT-6 wheels tires one hubcap Original never used Fair condition $750 pair Javelin V-6 Ford engine package Complete all new ready to assemble McCauley prop Rattray nosebowl 21 PSRU Griffin radiator Call for detailed list (207)563-1196 Maine
g Get Our New ManualPROCEDURE
~UALIOI forrh Since 1958 Ceconite has been the
touchstone of fabric covering Now ampUSIiii theres a new super-clear supershycomplete manual that makes the Ceconite process a breeze to use It tells you how it works which airshyplanes you can use it on even what you need and how much It takes
you step by step through the process with lots of phoshytos and iUustrations to make it all easy to understand On top of that any help you need is just a toU-free pho
-~-
Order Yours lust $500 Plus Sblppln~ and Handlln~
- - - - - shy888middot622middot3266 wwwpolyfibercom ~
E-mail Infosportalrcom
fAX 77 ) - 4 6 7 - 9 4 1 5 Aircraft Covering Process 2t9-A Barry Whatley Way Griffin Georgia 30224
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300
airexlRODUCTSINC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115
32 SEPTEMBER 1999
VINTAGE MERCHANDISE NEW STYLES ALL CLOTHING FEATURES NEW THREE-COLOR EMBROIDERED VINTAGE LOGO
Twill Six-Panel Caps with Braiding Feature adjustable leather closure strap One size fits most White V41260 $1099 Khaki V41261 $1099 Navy V41262 $1099
Clubhouse Jackets High quality jackets feature two-button adjustable cuffs elastic waistshyband inside coat hook loop inside pocket with velcro closure and more Contrasting color trim pieces and adjustable lanyard cord on collar make this jacket very distinctive Shell and lining are both 100 nylon NaturalNavy Trim SM-XL V41250 $6399
2X V41254 $6699 NavyForest Green Trim SM-XL V41250 $6399
2X V41254 $6699
Denim Short-sleeved Shirts with Button-down collar by Three Rivers Features button-closure on pocket Double stitching on sleeves for durability 100 cotton SM-XL V41263 $3699 2X V41267 $3999
Denim Long-sleeved Shirts with Button-down Collar Similar to above shirt but in long-sleeved design The shirts feature twoshybutton adjustable cuffs Available in light-blue denim or natural colors Natural MD-XL V41268 $3999
2X V41271 $4399 Light Blue MD-XL V41272 $3999
2X V41276 $4399
Cotton Pique Golf Shirts 100 combed cotton Knit collar and cuffs Two-button placket Drop-tail with side vents White SM-XL V41294 $3299
2X V41298 $3499 Khaki SM-XL V41299 $3299
2X V41303 $3499 Navy SM-XL V41289 $3299
2X V41293 $3499
Jacuard Golf Shirts 100 combed cotton Knit collar and cuffs with beige trim Fiveshybutton placket Drop tail with side vents Wine MD-XL V41281 $3499
2X V41284 $3799 Navy MD-XL V41285 $3499
2X V41288 $3799 Black MD-XL V41277 $3499
2X V41280 $3799
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT
Membershi~ Services Directory_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President VicemiddotPresident Espie middotButchmiddot Joyce George Daubner
PO Box 35584 2448 Lough Lane Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027
910393-0344 414673-5885 e~mail windsockaotcom e-mail an~que2aolcom
TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nesse 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Leo MN 56007
918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom
DIRECTORS Robert C middotBobmiddot Brauer steve Krog
9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027
773779-2105 414966-7627 e-mail photopilotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom
John Berendt 7645 Echo Point Rd Robert Lickteig
Cannon Falls MN 55009 1708 Boy Oaks Dr 507263-2414 Albert Lea MN 56007
507373-2922 John S Copeland 1 A Deacon Street Robert D middotBobmiddot Lumley
Northborough MA 01532 1265 Sourth 124th St 508393-4775 Brookfield WI 53005
e-mail 414782-2633 copelandljunocom ampmail
lumperexecpccom Phil Coulson
28415 Springbrook Dr Lawton MI 49065 Gene Morris
616624-6490 5936 Steve Court Roanoke TX 76262
Roger Gomoll 817491-9110 321-12 S Broadway 3 e-mail n03captfiashnet Rochester MN 55904
507288-2810 Dean Richardson rgomollheritagehallsorg 6701 Colony Dr
Madison WI 53717 Dale A Gustafson 608833-1291 7724 Shady Hill Dr darresprodcom
Indianapolis IN 46278 317293-4430
Geoff Robison Jeannie Hill 1521 E MacGregor Dr
New Haven IN 46774 Harvard IL 60033
PO Box 328 219493-4724
815943-7205 e-mail chief7025aolcom
SH Wes Schmid 2359 Leleber Avenue Wauwaioso W153213
41477l-l545 shschmldexecpccom
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Gene Chase EE middotBuck middot Hilbert 2159 Carllon Rd PO Box 424
Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 920231-5002 815923-4591
e-mail buck7acmcnet
ADVISORS David Benne Alan Shackleton 11741 Wolf Rd PO Box 656
Grass Valley CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 5301268-1585 630466-4193
ontiquerinreachcom 1033461772compuserecom
EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 bullbull bull bullbull FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM -700 PM Monday- Friday CST) bull Newrenew memberships EAA Divisions
(Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirdsl National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI)
bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships
Programs and Activities EAAAirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory 732-885-6711
Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 Build restore information 920-426-4821 Chapter s locatingorganizing 920-426-4876
Education 920-426-6815 bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships bull EAA Young Eagles Camps
BAA Vintage Aircraft Association ~ EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 OshkoshWI 54903-3086
Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873 Web Site httpeaaorgand httpwwwairoentureorg E-Mail Vintage eaaorg
Flight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Flight Instructor information 920-426-6801 Flying Start Program bullbullbullbullbull bull bullbullbullbullbull 920-426-6847 Library ServicesResearch 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Technical Counselors 920-426-4821
Young Eagles 920-426-4831
Benefits Aircraft Financing (Green Tree) 800-851-1367 AUA 800-727 -3823
AVEMCO 800-638-8440 Term Life and Accidental 800-241-6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company)
Editorial Submitting articlephoto advertising infonnation 920-426-4825 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull bull FAX 920-426-4828
EAAAviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877
Financial Support 800-236-1025
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION available for $50 per year (SPORT AVIATION magshyEAA azine not included) (Add $10 for Foreign
Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association
Postage) AVIATION Family membership is available for an addishytional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 WARBIRDS years of age) is available at $23 annually All major Current EM members may join the EM Warbirds of
credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for America Division and receive WARBIRDS magazine
Foreign Postage) for an additional $35 per year EM MemberShip WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds Div isionVINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is available for $45 per year (SPORT AVIATION
Current EM members may join the Vintage Aircraft magazine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign
Associaton and receive VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashyPostage)
zine for an additional $27 per year EM Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE mag-azine EAA EXPERIMENTERand one year membership in the EM Vintage Airshy
Current EAA members may receive EAAcraft Associat ion is available for $37 per year
EXPERIMENTER magazine for an additional $20 (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (Add per year
$7 for Foreign Postage) EM Membership and EM EXPERIMENTER magshyaz ine is available for $30 per year (SPORT
lAC AVIATION magazine not inciuded)(Add $8 for ForshyCurrent EM members may join the International eign Postage) Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an additional $40 FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS per year Please submit your remittance with a check or EM Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine draft drawn on a United States bank payable in and one year membership in the lAC Division is United States dollars Add requ ired Foreign
Postage amount for each membership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy 1999 by the EM Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved
VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) IPM t482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Vintage Aircraft Associatioo of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Ostlkosh Wiscoosin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additiooal mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes 10 EM AntiqueClassic Divisioo Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two monlhs for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surtace mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee Of endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken EDrrORIAL POLICY Readers are encouraged to submtt stories and photographs Policy opinioos expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests enti1y with the contributor No renumeratioo is madeMaterial shoukJ be sent to Edttor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Ostlkosh WI 54903-3086 Phooe 9201426-4800 The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EAA EAA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarks THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVenure are tradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited
30 SEPTEMBER 1999
Jock Hooker in flight in his Cessna 120
Gr
Jack Hooker
Freeport IL
Owner Jack Hooker
Hooker Custom Harness HCompany Airplane
Flown approx 100 hours
per year since purchased plane in 1989
Flown to Sun N Fun
every year since )990
AUAis
~ approved
To become a
member of the
Vintage Aircraft
Association call
800-843-3612
II have been insured with AUA Inc
since 1989 After having the misfortune
of having a claim I can attest that the
claim was handled promptly and my
rates are good
lThank you AUAI
- Jack Hooker
The best is affordable
Give AUA a call - its FREE
800-727-3823 Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
AUAs Exclusive EAA Vintage Aircraft Assoc Insurance Program
Lower liobili~ and hull premiums
Medical pay ents included
Fleet discount for multiple aircraft carrying all risk coverages
No hand-prop-ping exclusion
No age pena ty
No componelilt parts endorsements
Discounts for laim-free renewals carryin all risk coverages
Remember Were Better Together
AVIATION UNLIMITED AGENCY
The Web Goes
Vintage For the latest news and happenings on EAAs
Vintage Aircraft plug into wwweaaorg
The site includesthe homepage for EAAs largest Division
the Vintage Aircraft Association Access it directly at
wwwvintageaircraftorg
Check out the most up-to-date Type Club listJudging Guidelines and a tribute to J04A volunteers as well as plenty ofother information geared towards people who love the
Golden Age ofAviation
VINTAGE TRADER
Something to buy sell or trade An inexpensive ad in the Vintage Trader may be just the answer to obtaining that elusive part 50cent per word $800 minimum charge Send your ad and payment to Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 or Jax your ad and your credit card number to 920426shy4828 Ads must be received by the 20th oJthe monthJor insertion in the issue the second month Jollowing (eg October 20thJor the December issue)
MISCElLANEOUS
BABBln BEARING SERVICE - rod bearings main bearings camshaft bearings master rods valves Call us Toll Free 1800233-6934 e-mail ramremfgaolcom Web site httpwww ramenginecom VINTAGE ENGINE MACHINE WORKS N 604 FREYA ST SPOKANE WA 99202
FREE CATALOG Aviation books and videos How to building and restoration tips historic flying and entertainshyment titles Call for a free catalog EM 1-800-843-3612
Newsletters for ArcticInterstate (6 Back issues$900) BeaverOtter (3$500) Norseman (16$2100) $16504 issues Free sample write call fax ALL credit cards accepted Dave Neumeister Publisher 5630 South Washington Lansing MI48911-4999 800594-4634517882-8433 Fax 800596-8341 517882-8341
BROWN BACK TIGERIAnzani 90hp need info and spare parts for this 6 cylinder twin row radial Ralph Graham St Paul MN (651)452-3629 e-mail GevonGaolcom
Continental cylinders from annualed 0-99) 0-300 Complete wpistons pins valves springs push rods and connectshying rods Minus rockers $275 per cylinder BT-13 AT-6 wheels tires one hubcap Original never used Fair condition $750 pair Javelin V-6 Ford engine package Complete all new ready to assemble McCauley prop Rattray nosebowl 21 PSRU Griffin radiator Call for detailed list (207)563-1196 Maine
g Get Our New ManualPROCEDURE
~UALIOI forrh Since 1958 Ceconite has been the
touchstone of fabric covering Now ampUSIiii theres a new super-clear supershycomplete manual that makes the Ceconite process a breeze to use It tells you how it works which airshyplanes you can use it on even what you need and how much It takes
you step by step through the process with lots of phoshytos and iUustrations to make it all easy to understand On top of that any help you need is just a toU-free pho
-~-
Order Yours lust $500 Plus Sblppln~ and Handlln~
- - - - - shy888middot622middot3266 wwwpolyfibercom ~
E-mail Infosportalrcom
fAX 77 ) - 4 6 7 - 9 4 1 5 Aircraft Covering Process 2t9-A Barry Whatley Way Griffin Georgia 30224
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300
airexlRODUCTSINC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115
32 SEPTEMBER 1999
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT
Membershi~ Services Directory_ Enjoy the many benefits ofBAA and the
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President VicemiddotPresident Espie middotButchmiddot Joyce George Daubner
PO Box 35584 2448 Lough Lane Greensboro NC 27425 Hartford WI 53027
910393-0344 414673-5885 e~mail windsockaotcom e-mail an~que2aolcom
TreasurerSecretary Charles W HarrisSteve Nesse 7215 East 46th St2009 Highland Ave Tulsa OK 74145Albert Leo MN 56007
918622-8400507373-1674 cwhhv5ucom
DIRECTORS Robert C middotBobmiddot Brauer steve Krog
9345 S Hoyne 1002 Heather Ln Chicago IL 60620 Hartford WI 53027
773779-2105 414966-7627 e-mail photopilotaolcom a-mail sskrogaolcom
John Berendt 7645 Echo Point Rd Robert Lickteig
Cannon Falls MN 55009 1708 Boy Oaks Dr 507263-2414 Albert Lea MN 56007
507373-2922 John S Copeland 1 A Deacon Street Robert D middotBobmiddot Lumley
Northborough MA 01532 1265 Sourth 124th St 508393-4775 Brookfield WI 53005
e-mail 414782-2633 copelandljunocom ampmail
lumperexecpccom Phil Coulson
28415 Springbrook Dr Lawton MI 49065 Gene Morris
616624-6490 5936 Steve Court Roanoke TX 76262
Roger Gomoll 817491-9110 321-12 S Broadway 3 e-mail n03captfiashnet Rochester MN 55904
507288-2810 Dean Richardson rgomollheritagehallsorg 6701 Colony Dr
Madison WI 53717 Dale A Gustafson 608833-1291 7724 Shady Hill Dr darresprodcom
Indianapolis IN 46278 317293-4430
Geoff Robison Jeannie Hill 1521 E MacGregor Dr
New Haven IN 46774 Harvard IL 60033
PO Box 328 219493-4724
815943-7205 e-mail chief7025aolcom
SH Wes Schmid 2359 Leleber Avenue Wauwaioso W153213
41477l-l545 shschmldexecpccom
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Gene Chase EE middotBuck middot Hilbert 2159 Carllon Rd PO Box 424
Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 920231-5002 815923-4591
e-mail buck7acmcnet
ADVISORS David Benne Alan Shackleton 11741 Wolf Rd PO Box 656
Grass Valley CA 95949 Sugar Grove IL 60554-0656 5301268-1585 630466-4193
ontiquerinreachcom 1033461772compuserecom
EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 bullbull bull bullbull FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM -700 PM Monday- Friday CST) bull Newrenew memberships EAA Divisions
(Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirdsl National Association of Flight Instructors (NAFI)
bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships
Programs and Activities EAAAirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory 732-885-6711
Auto Fuel STCs 920-426-4843 Build restore information 920-426-4821 Chapter s locatingorganizing 920-426-4876
Education 920-426-6815 bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships bull EAA Young Eagles Camps
BAA Vintage Aircraft Association ~ EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 OshkoshWI 54903-3086
Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873 Web Site httpeaaorgand httpwwwairoentureorg E-Mail Vintage eaaorg
Flight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Flight Instructor information 920-426-6801 Flying Start Program bullbullbullbullbull bull bullbullbullbullbull 920-426-6847 Library ServicesResearch 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Technical Counselors 920-426-4821
Young Eagles 920-426-4831
Benefits Aircraft Financing (Green Tree) 800-851-1367 AUA 800-727 -3823
AVEMCO 800-638-8440 Term Life and Accidental 800-241-6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company)
Editorial Submitting articlephoto advertising infonnation 920-426-4825 bullbullbullbullbullbullbullbull bull FAX 920-426-4828
EAAAviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877
Financial Support 800-236-1025
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION available for $50 per year (SPORT AVIATION magshyEAA azine not included) (Add $10 for Foreign
Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association
Postage) AVIATION Family membership is available for an addishytional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 WARBIRDS years of age) is available at $23 annually All major Current EM members may join the EM Warbirds of
credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for America Division and receive WARBIRDS magazine
Foreign Postage) for an additional $35 per year EM MemberShip WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds Div isionVINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION is available for $45 per year (SPORT AVIATION
Current EM members may join the Vintage Aircraft magazine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign
Associaton and receive VINTAGE AIRPLANE magashyPostage)
zine for an additional $27 per year EM Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE mag-azine EAA EXPERIMENTERand one year membership in the EM Vintage Airshy
Current EAA members may receive EAAcraft Associat ion is available for $37 per year
EXPERIMENTER magazine for an additional $20 (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (Add per year
$7 for Foreign Postage) EM Membership and EM EXPERIMENTER magshyaz ine is available for $30 per year (SPORT
lAC AVIATION magazine not inciuded)(Add $8 for ForshyCurrent EM members may join the International eign Postage) Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an additional $40 FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS per year Please submit your remittance with a check or EM Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine draft drawn on a United States bank payable in and one year membership in the lAC Division is United States dollars Add requ ired Foreign
Postage amount for each membership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy 1999 by the EM Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved
VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) IPM t482602 is published and owned exclusively by the EM Vintage Aircraft Associatioo of the Experimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Ostlkosh Wiscoosin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additiooal mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes 10 EM AntiqueClassic Divisioo Inc PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two monlhs for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPLANE to foreign and APO addresses via surtace mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee Of endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken EDrrORIAL POLICY Readers are encouraged to submtt stories and photographs Policy opinioos expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests enti1y with the contributor No renumeratioo is madeMaterial shoukJ be sent to Edttor VINTAGE AIRPLANE PO Box 3086 Ostlkosh WI 54903-3086 Phooe 9201426-4800 The words EAA ULTRALIGHT FLY WITH THE FIRST TEAM SPORT AVIATION FOR THE LOVE OF FLYING and the logos of EAA EAA INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INTERNAshyTIONAL AEROBATIC CLUB WARBIRDS OF AMERICA are reg registered trademarks THE EAA SKY SHOPPE and logos of the EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION EAA ULTRALIGHT CONVENTION and EAA AirVenure are tradeshymarks of the above associations and their use by any person other than the above association is strictly prohibited
30 SEPTEMBER 1999
Jock Hooker in flight in his Cessna 120
Gr
Jack Hooker
Freeport IL
Owner Jack Hooker
Hooker Custom Harness HCompany Airplane
Flown approx 100 hours
per year since purchased plane in 1989
Flown to Sun N Fun
every year since )990
AUAis
~ approved
To become a
member of the
Vintage Aircraft
Association call
800-843-3612
II have been insured with AUA Inc
since 1989 After having the misfortune
of having a claim I can attest that the
claim was handled promptly and my
rates are good
lThank you AUAI
- Jack Hooker
The best is affordable
Give AUA a call - its FREE
800-727-3823 Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
AUAs Exclusive EAA Vintage Aircraft Assoc Insurance Program
Lower liobili~ and hull premiums
Medical pay ents included
Fleet discount for multiple aircraft carrying all risk coverages
No hand-prop-ping exclusion
No age pena ty
No componelilt parts endorsements
Discounts for laim-free renewals carryin all risk coverages
Remember Were Better Together
AVIATION UNLIMITED AGENCY
The Web Goes
Vintage For the latest news and happenings on EAAs
Vintage Aircraft plug into wwweaaorg
The site includesthe homepage for EAAs largest Division
the Vintage Aircraft Association Access it directly at
wwwvintageaircraftorg
Check out the most up-to-date Type Club listJudging Guidelines and a tribute to J04A volunteers as well as plenty ofother information geared towards people who love the
Golden Age ofAviation
VINTAGE TRADER
Something to buy sell or trade An inexpensive ad in the Vintage Trader may be just the answer to obtaining that elusive part 50cent per word $800 minimum charge Send your ad and payment to Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 or Jax your ad and your credit card number to 920426shy4828 Ads must be received by the 20th oJthe monthJor insertion in the issue the second month Jollowing (eg October 20thJor the December issue)
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BABBln BEARING SERVICE - rod bearings main bearings camshaft bearings master rods valves Call us Toll Free 1800233-6934 e-mail ramremfgaolcom Web site httpwww ramenginecom VINTAGE ENGINE MACHINE WORKS N 604 FREYA ST SPOKANE WA 99202
FREE CATALOG Aviation books and videos How to building and restoration tips historic flying and entertainshyment titles Call for a free catalog EM 1-800-843-3612
Newsletters for ArcticInterstate (6 Back issues$900) BeaverOtter (3$500) Norseman (16$2100) $16504 issues Free sample write call fax ALL credit cards accepted Dave Neumeister Publisher 5630 South Washington Lansing MI48911-4999 800594-4634517882-8433 Fax 800596-8341 517882-8341
BROWN BACK TIGERIAnzani 90hp need info and spare parts for this 6 cylinder twin row radial Ralph Graham St Paul MN (651)452-3629 e-mail GevonGaolcom
Continental cylinders from annualed 0-99) 0-300 Complete wpistons pins valves springs push rods and connectshying rods Minus rockers $275 per cylinder BT-13 AT-6 wheels tires one hubcap Original never used Fair condition $750 pair Javelin V-6 Ford engine package Complete all new ready to assemble McCauley prop Rattray nosebowl 21 PSRU Griffin radiator Call for detailed list (207)563-1196 Maine
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touchstone of fabric covering Now ampUSIiii theres a new super-clear supershycomplete manual that makes the Ceconite process a breeze to use It tells you how it works which airshyplanes you can use it on even what you need and how much It takes
you step by step through the process with lots of phoshytos and iUustrations to make it all easy to understand On top of that any help you need is just a toU-free pho
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fAX 77 ) - 4 6 7 - 9 4 1 5 Aircraft Covering Process 2t9-A Barry Whatley Way Griffin Georgia 30224
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300
airexlRODUCTSINC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115
32 SEPTEMBER 1999
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Vintage Aircraft plug into wwweaaorg
The site includesthe homepage for EAAs largest Division
the Vintage Aircraft Association Access it directly at
wwwvintageaircraftorg
Check out the most up-to-date Type Club listJudging Guidelines and a tribute to J04A volunteers as well as plenty ofother information geared towards people who love the
Golden Age ofAviation
VINTAGE TRADER
Something to buy sell or trade An inexpensive ad in the Vintage Trader may be just the answer to obtaining that elusive part 50cent per word $800 minimum charge Send your ad and payment to Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 or Jax your ad and your credit card number to 920426shy4828 Ads must be received by the 20th oJthe monthJor insertion in the issue the second month Jollowing (eg October 20thJor the December issue)
MISCElLANEOUS
BABBln BEARING SERVICE - rod bearings main bearings camshaft bearings master rods valves Call us Toll Free 1800233-6934 e-mail ramremfgaolcom Web site httpwww ramenginecom VINTAGE ENGINE MACHINE WORKS N 604 FREYA ST SPOKANE WA 99202
FREE CATALOG Aviation books and videos How to building and restoration tips historic flying and entertainshyment titles Call for a free catalog EM 1-800-843-3612
Newsletters for ArcticInterstate (6 Back issues$900) BeaverOtter (3$500) Norseman (16$2100) $16504 issues Free sample write call fax ALL credit cards accepted Dave Neumeister Publisher 5630 South Washington Lansing MI48911-4999 800594-4634517882-8433 Fax 800596-8341 517882-8341
BROWN BACK TIGERIAnzani 90hp need info and spare parts for this 6 cylinder twin row radial Ralph Graham St Paul MN (651)452-3629 e-mail GevonGaolcom
Continental cylinders from annualed 0-99) 0-300 Complete wpistons pins valves springs push rods and connectshying rods Minus rockers $275 per cylinder BT-13 AT-6 wheels tires one hubcap Original never used Fair condition $750 pair Javelin V-6 Ford engine package Complete all new ready to assemble McCauley prop Rattray nosebowl 21 PSRU Griffin radiator Call for detailed list (207)563-1196 Maine
g Get Our New ManualPROCEDURE
~UALIOI forrh Since 1958 Ceconite has been the
touchstone of fabric covering Now ampUSIiii theres a new super-clear supershycomplete manual that makes the Ceconite process a breeze to use It tells you how it works which airshyplanes you can use it on even what you need and how much It takes
you step by step through the process with lots of phoshytos and iUustrations to make it all easy to understand On top of that any help you need is just a toU-free pho
-~-
Order Yours lust $500 Plus Sblppln~ and Handlln~
- - - - - shy888middot622middot3266 wwwpolyfibercom ~
E-mail Infosportalrcom
fAX 77 ) - 4 6 7 - 9 4 1 5 Aircraft Covering Process 2t9-A Barry Whatley Way Griffin Georgia 30224
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300
airexlRODUCTSINC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115
32 SEPTEMBER 1999
The Web Goes
Vintage For the latest news and happenings on EAAs
Vintage Aircraft plug into wwweaaorg
The site includesthe homepage for EAAs largest Division
the Vintage Aircraft Association Access it directly at
wwwvintageaircraftorg
Check out the most up-to-date Type Club listJudging Guidelines and a tribute to J04A volunteers as well as plenty ofother information geared towards people who love the
Golden Age ofAviation
VINTAGE TRADER
Something to buy sell or trade An inexpensive ad in the Vintage Trader may be just the answer to obtaining that elusive part 50cent per word $800 minimum charge Send your ad and payment to Vintage Trader EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 or Jax your ad and your credit card number to 920426shy4828 Ads must be received by the 20th oJthe monthJor insertion in the issue the second month Jollowing (eg October 20thJor the December issue)
MISCElLANEOUS
BABBln BEARING SERVICE - rod bearings main bearings camshaft bearings master rods valves Call us Toll Free 1800233-6934 e-mail ramremfgaolcom Web site httpwww ramenginecom VINTAGE ENGINE MACHINE WORKS N 604 FREYA ST SPOKANE WA 99202
FREE CATALOG Aviation books and videos How to building and restoration tips historic flying and entertainshyment titles Call for a free catalog EM 1-800-843-3612
Newsletters for ArcticInterstate (6 Back issues$900) BeaverOtter (3$500) Norseman (16$2100) $16504 issues Free sample write call fax ALL credit cards accepted Dave Neumeister Publisher 5630 South Washington Lansing MI48911-4999 800594-4634517882-8433 Fax 800596-8341 517882-8341
BROWN BACK TIGERIAnzani 90hp need info and spare parts for this 6 cylinder twin row radial Ralph Graham St Paul MN (651)452-3629 e-mail GevonGaolcom
Continental cylinders from annualed 0-99) 0-300 Complete wpistons pins valves springs push rods and connectshying rods Minus rockers $275 per cylinder BT-13 AT-6 wheels tires one hubcap Original never used Fair condition $750 pair Javelin V-6 Ford engine package Complete all new ready to assemble McCauley prop Rattray nosebowl 21 PSRU Griffin radiator Call for detailed list (207)563-1196 Maine
g Get Our New ManualPROCEDURE
~UALIOI forrh Since 1958 Ceconite has been the
touchstone of fabric covering Now ampUSIiii theres a new super-clear supershycomplete manual that makes the Ceconite process a breeze to use It tells you how it works which airshyplanes you can use it on even what you need and how much It takes
you step by step through the process with lots of phoshytos and iUustrations to make it all easy to understand On top of that any help you need is just a toU-free pho
-~-
Order Yours lust $500 Plus Sblppln~ and Handlln~
- - - - - shy888middot622middot3266 wwwpolyfibercom ~
E-mail Infosportalrcom
fAX 77 ) - 4 6 7 - 9 4 1 5 Aircraft Covering Process 2t9-A Barry Whatley Way Griffin Georgia 30224
Fly high with a quality Classic interior Complete interior assemblies for do-it-yourself installation
Custom quality at economical prices
bull Cushion upholstery sets bull Wall panel sets bull Headliners bull Carpet sets bull Baggage compartment sets bull Firewall covers bull Seat slings bull Recover envelopes and dopes
Free catalog of complete product line
Fabric Selection Guide showing actual sample colors and styles of materials $300
airexlRODUCTSINC 259 Lower Morrisville Rd Dept VA Fallsington PA 19054 (215) 295-4115
32 SEPTEMBER 1999
