VA-Vol-28-No-3-March-2000

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STRAIGHT AND LEVEL

2 VAA NEWS

4 AEROMAIL

5 THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER MARKERDutch Redfield

10 STEARMAN FLYING FOR FUNlLauran Paine

12 PASS IT TO BUCKlEE Buck Hilbert

13 ED AND BARBARAS HOWARD Budd Davisson

18 VAA CHAPTER 22 FLY-IN John Morozowsky

21 DALE CRITES AND THE CURTISS PUSHER Dick andJeannie Hill

24 MYSTERY PLANEHG Frautschy

26 WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING HG Frautschy

28 CALENDAR

29 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

27 CLASSIFIED ADS

wwwvintageaircraftorg

Publislrer TOM POBEREZNY

Ediwr-in-Clrief scon SPANGLER

Executive Director Editor HENRY G FRAUTSCHY

Exeellive Editor MIKE DIFRISCO

Contributing Editor JOHN UNDERWOOD

BUDD DAVISSON

Art Director BETH BLANCK

Plrotograplry Staff JIM KOEPNICK LEEANN ABRAMS

MARK SCHAIBLE

AdvertisillglEditoriai Assislallt ISABELLE WISKE

SEE PAGE 32 FOR FURTHER VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INFORMATION

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S TRAIGHT amp LEVEL by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE

PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION

For nearly 30 years the Vintage Aircraft Association has conducted its business by relying on the efforts of its core of volunteers and its officers and directors Quite often wed have to rely on someone at EAA headquarters to do our leg work even if it wasnt part of their regular reshysponsibilities Over the years Gene Chase Dorothy Chase jack and Golda Cox Mary jones Mark Phelps and many others have been willing to assist us as we continued to grow and for their help weve been most grateful

We have always found the EAA folks in Oshkosh more than willing to be of assistance but we were never sure the same person would be helping each time Thats the luck of the draw when youre working on the fringes of a regushylar organization It changed in 1990 when Henry HG Frautschy came on board to be the editor of Vintage Airshyplane Because he so strongly identified with our group he became the person whom I counted on time and time again to be my pOint man at EAA HQ While HG was more than willing to do this work for the membership he had other responsibilities in the EAA editorial offices In a sense his efforts were (for lack of a better term) really as a volunteer for the Association

But with no official designation of someone as our spokesperson at EAA HQ sometimes it became a challenge to accomplish our goals For instance we didnt have a pershyson who sat in on the weekly managers meeting at Headquarters so there were times when we missed learnshying about a subject or program that might have been of benefit

Our biggest concern over the years has been the consisshytent growth of our membership and any related concerns each member has about their needs and desires There are plenty of other things were keeping an eye on as well inshycluding

bull Aging aircraft and the FAAs stance on this issue bull Member support benefits service bull Preserving aviation history bull Convention activities bull Expansion of the Contemporary judging category With all this going on I went from one briefcase to two

Realistically weve grown to the pOint where we have to step up and treat the VAA as a business Now that doesnt

mean we have to lose out heart and soul it just means we must be more professional in the execution of our daily matters as we provide service and support to you our felshylow members Over the past few years its become more and more obvious to us that we needed to have someone offiCially designated to serve asOur Man in Oshkosh Now we do

You now have your first full-time employee working for you at EAA Headquarters and [ am proud to say he is HG Frautschy HG has been selected to become the Associashytions very first Executive Director Its funny but often when you are around someone on a regular basis you dont always find out who they are and what theyve done until you have to sit down and take the time to do so I had no idea how varied HGs work and personal life has been until I saw his resume

Hes a graduate of the famous aviation school Parks College of St Louis University HG holds a Private pilot certificate (hes itching to add his CommerciallInstrushyment and CFI so he can teach folks how to fly tailwheel airplanes) as well as Airframe and Powerplant Meshychanic certification

Before coming to EAA in 1990 HG was the publicashytions manager for Air Wisconsin a regional airline affiliated with United Airlines His first job out of college was for the most recognized name in helicopters Sikorsky Aircraft He wrote technical manuals for the big tri-motored CH-S3E and then served as the senior writer and as a logistic eleshyment manager for the SH-60B Seahawk While at Sikorsky he purchased his first airplane an Aeronca 11CC Super Chief Long a fan of old airplanes (they make the best rubshyber-powered models) HG enjoyed delving into the history and maintenance challenges of the early days of aviation His enthusiasm and interest in the airplanes of yesteryear dovetailed perfectly with his professional exerience and in 1990 he was hired by EAA to become editor of Vintage Airplane and Warbirds magazines as well as serving as a feature writer for EAAs flagship publication Sport Aviation

A full-time person at Oshkosh will enable the Associashytion to be even more successful in future V AA projects that

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will benefit you our fellow member HG WELCOME ABOARD

Lauran Paine has written several inshyteresting articles for your V AA One of his pieces Flying For Fun is inshycluded in this months issue with a beautiful illustration sketched by Jim Newman In fact Laurans so good hes been asked to become a columshynist for EAAs flagship publication Sport A viation Congratulations Laushyran We still have one more piece written by Lauran ready for publicashytion and well publish it in April Then youll have to open your other favorite aviation magazine to read his insightful prose

Articles written by the membership will continue to be the heart and soul of Vintage Airplane and were always open to article submissions especially How to and other technical articles Sharing information on how to mainshytain and operate our favorite airplanes will never go out of style so please consider sharing your expertise with others

After a long winter lay up of your aircraft please consider the most comshyplete preflight you can do-in fact this isnt a bad time to do your annual

This also extends to a good selfshyevaluation of your piloting skills Take your time and use good judgement in both of these matters Some time spent with your local CFl might just give you the edge to handle a nasty unexpected crosswind or other emershygency

We dont want to lose an aircraft to the March winds because of poor tiedowns or hangars in need of repair so check these items to make sure they are strong as well

I hate to sound like a broken record but each year we lose three or four airshycraft to people hand-propping their aircraft improperly It only takes a litshytle longer to take whatever precaution you need to prevent you from being one of these people

Believe me the person who owns the airplane or hangar your unguided

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airplane runs into will let you know in no uncertain terms what you should have done I sure would hate to have to buy a two million-dollar King Air when a two-dollar piece of rope would have kept it in place It will happen to someone just do not let it be you

Mark the weekend of May 19-21 on your calendar Those are the days for our VAA fly-in work weekend in Oshkosh We will be working on the VAA area of the AirVenture 2000 grounds You can camp under your wing or we will have transportation available to a local motel Not only will we be working but well have some good fellowship and fun as well

At the end of this month your Board of Directors will be meeting at EAA HQ Should you have any suggesshytions or concerns please forward them to HG (E-mail vintageeaaorg or regular mail at PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086) at EAA HQ so they can be addressed at that time If at all pOSSible please put your thoughts down on paper so we can be certain we understand your question or concern

I have asked each of you to ask a friend to join up with us If you have not yet had a chance to do so the spring flying season would be a great time for you to invite someone to I

share your passion for our old airshyplanes and enjoy VAA membership Your help in recruiting a new member is needed to help to keep the VAA on a solid footing

You can almost see the Sun N Fun EAA Fly-in on the horizon I encourshyage everyone to come and enjoy this great show Being in Florida during the second week of April is a great way to start off the new flying season If youre going to be there look me upshyIll be there all week Be sure to bring your sunscreen and walking shoes

Your Directors and Officers feel

your Vintage Airplane Association is positioned to do great things in the I

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

VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

After nearly two decades as a member and ten years spent editing Vintage Airplane Im thrilled to be given the chance to serve my fellow members as Executive Director of the Vintage Aircraft Association Weve got plenty of challenges in front of us and Im confident that in cooperation with EAA we will

THE COVERS FRONT COVER Wheres the

Beef was the catch phrase used by a hamburger chain afew years ago in their advertising For the aviation crowd the answer is often the Howard DGA-15 which has always been one of the most massive single-engine airplanes in the vintage airplane world This example was restored by Mark Grusauskis Wing Works in North Canaan Connecticut for owners Barbara and Ed Moore of West Mystic Connecticut It was selected as the Reshyserve Grand Champion Antique at EAA AirVenture 99

EAA photo by Jim Koepnick shot with a Canon EOS1 nequipped with an 80-220 mm lens on 100ASA Fuji Provia slide film EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER During our Jim Dishyetz show at the EAA AirVenture museum there were plenty of vintage aircraft paintshyings to enjoy including this oil-on-canvas depiction of Alaska Coastal In it Jim captures one of the last Lockheed Vegas in American commercial service as it is loaded for a flight in front of Alaska Coastals Juneau Alaska headquarters The scene is set in the late 1940s when nearly every town in Alaska had its own air transport operation and the Grumman amphibian was state of the art A dozen years earlier pilots were trailblazers in the Territory of Alaska and a dozen years later jets would be serving the 49th state Alaska Coastal survives in spirit - a series of partnerships and purchases made the Juneau operation part of todays Alaska Airlines The painting is part of the Jay Braze collection

keep our favorite airplanes flying for years to come As mentioned by V AA president Butch Joyce were keeping an eye on the issues of aging aircraft vintage aircraft maintenance preshyserving aviation history and ensuring the annual Convention is an enjoyshyable experience for the members of EAAs largest Division the VAA We regularly correspond and meet with other organizations and Type Clubs to keep the lines of communication open while working on these and many other issues

Just as producing Vintage Airshyplane is a collaborative effort so to will be the day-to-day operation of the VAA Were very fortunate to be able to rely on the expertise and reshysources of the staff at EAA headquarters and having a board of directors and officers with such a wide range of backgrounds has been very helpful during the past ten years Im looking forward to workshying with them in the future

Membership Services Chapter Programs Information Services and the Government Programs offices are but a few of the many areas we work with regularly Doing so makes certain your voice and interests are heard as we all work towards the common goal of making our brand of aviation a viable form of recreshyation for enthusiasts who have enjoyed it all their lives and those who are new to our ranks

I look forward to continuing to work with all of you and please dont hesitate to write - well only know what you want by maintainshying contact with you our fellow member

-HG Frautschy Executive Director V AA

EAA AIRVENTURE ADMISSION PRICING

Attending EAA AirVenture 2000 the worlds premier aviation event will be an even better experience for aviation enthusiasts because of a simplified admission structure

AirVenture 2000 with its major

theme of Speed will take place July 26-Aug 1 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh Wisconsin

The admission structure sets one price for EAA members who attend allowing them to speed through the admission process and enjoy more of the event Along with its many other benefits annual EAA and V AA membership is still the best and least expensive way to enjoy the event which annually features atshytendance of more than 750000 and in excess of 12000 airplanes

People come from all over the world to EAA AirVenture each year to enjoy many facets of aviation said Tom Poberezny EAA President and AirVenture Chairman Our goal is to make their experience as enjoyable as possible regardless of what segment of aviation they enjoy during their time in Oshkosh The simplified admission process is anshyother effort as we strive toward that goal

Daily AirVenture admission for annual EAA members is $16 regardshyless if they join prior to the event or at the gate Weekly admissions are available for EAA members as are reshyduced rates for spouses and young people 18 and under In addition annual EAA members may bring up to two other adults at the member guest rate of $24 each per day

For those who are not EAA memshybers or guests of a member one-day AirVenture 2000 admission is $29 per day for adults That rate includes a complimentary three-month Inshytroductory EAA membership (individual or family) designed to highlight the year-round activities of EAA Student and youth rates are also available Admission gate staff will find the lowest price available for each AirVenture participant or group of visitors regardless of the size of the party or the number of days attending AirVenture

VIMY AIRCRAFf PROJECT The Vimy Aircraft Project Official

Web Site is now online in its new

home in the United States Comshypletely revised and expanded the site includes all the information preshyviously found on the original Vimy Web Site plus new information and many new interactive features The site can be reached at http wwwvimyorg

The Vimy Aircraft Project is a non-profit organization to support a replica of the Vickers Vimy bishyplane that made aviation history in 1919 and 1920 wi th three historic flights

bull First crossing of the Atlantic Ocean 1919

bull First Flight from England to Australia 1919

bull First Flight from London Engshyland to Cape Town South Africa 1920

The aircraft-referred to by some as the worlds largest homebuilt-is owned by Californian Peter McMilshylian who with Lang Kidby reenacted the England to Australia trip in 1994 Their trip was the cover story of the May 1995 issue of National Geoshygraphic and Peter McMillan authored a book about the trip In the summer of 1999 Mark Rebholz a United Airshylines 767 Captain and John LaNoue piloted the Vimy on a reenactment the London to Cape Town flight Their trip will be featured in the May 2000 issue of National Geographic Details of both of these flights as well as an upcoming calendar of Vimy appearances are available on the new Web site

The Vimy is also expected to atshytend EAA AirVenture 2000

The site also features a guest book where site visitors can enter comments for the Vimy volunteer staff and other visitors to read A powerful search feature makes it easy to find articles about Vimy flights the educational project that was part of the London to Cape Town trip and upcoming appearshyances The Vimy project is made possible through generous donashytions of many sponsors including Bose Snap-On and BP Air

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DUTCH ON LARRY AND ILSE HARMACINSKIS WACO CSO

Dear Larry [Harmacinski] When I saw 656N on the enveshy

lope I jumped three feet right straight up

For quite a few years after I went with Pan Am we vacationed at Big Moose Lake Driving down one year here was 656N pulled up next to the road

I got to fly this airplane once Charlie Smith gave me a couple of landings on Onondaga Lake near Syracuse just before we put my own Waco on floats for the sumshymer I had never flown a seaplane and Charlie wasnt much ahead of me I flew from the front seat It didnt help me much Your logs sent don t show this but it was May 51936

Not long after this day when I was putting the F2 on its floats at Ithaca New York Charlie was pracshyticing landings far from shore on a Senaca Lake glassy water day I strongly advise you that glassy washyter can be bad news Charlie found this out too I can still see the gishyant white splash far out from shore and hear the giant boom that secshyonds later echoed ashore on a still quiet day

The CSO is probably the best performing seaplane ever built It is a POWERFUL airplane that can be forced into the air at unbelievshyable attitudes and angles of attack and low airspeeds Charlie and I learned much just watching the way Harold Scott a veteran seashyplaner operated his CSO He never got in the cockpit with either of us but was always ready to help us out or to answer a question His

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airplane had red fuselage and yelshylow wings There are some words in my first book on Scottys hangar under a bridge behind his house on a creek He later became a good friend He left a fine mark on sea planing

The log sheets triggered many memories I didnt know that Scott operated 656N before Smith became involved I have no recollection of the right aileron peeling off nor why Merrill Phoenix later became a dear friend Bud (Matty) Windshyhausen I knew very well A FINE mechanic Phoenix was the first of all to operate seaplanes a Stinson on Fairchild floats that had no washyter rudders

Long before the days of 656N Charlie Smith soloed me on my second aircraft type on a Taylor Cub (not Piper) with a 36 hp Conshytinental

Along with Smith and Harold Scott and their CSOs and me with my UBF-2 we operated the State Fair at Syracuse in the fall of 1938 We flew from Onondaga Lake near

the Fairgrounds Passengers were sold rides from a booth inside the grounds then carried by car to the lakeshore flown then returned to the fairgrounds It was a giant flop as Smith indicated in his log entries

I knew Red Panella but didn t know he operated the airplane early in its history There is much in the first book on Senaca River etc

I never thought of the airplane as a nimble airplane I thought of it as a rugged powerful airplane that could be frightfully overloaded and never blink in its performance

In the photo enclosed where a lot of guys are standing together we are all standing in front of my Waco UBF2 It was taken during the State Fair fore mentioned This airplane would not perform the CSO at lightweights Not with a load It was a handsome airplane

Thanks for your great letter and the log pages Keep in touch as things move along

Very Sincerely Dutch Redfield Long Island New York

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The CPT Years

When the Waco came off its floats at the end of the 1940 sumshymer season the books showed a very successful year Using $800 I celebrated our success by going out and buying a brand new 8-cylinder Pontiac But WW II was now in progress and my fuel supplier was skeptical about the availability of aviation fuel for the following sumshymer which meant there was considerable question about whether Thousand Island Airways would be in operation in 1941

Back at Syracuse Fred McGlynn had obtained backing and was esshytablishing a government-sponsored Civilian Pilot Training School the

function of this program to deliver to the Navy the Air Force and the nations airlines already trained pishylots At this early stage Macs school Onondaga Aviation Comshypany was only conducting Primary training utilizing light low-powshyered Taylorcraft monoplanes In the fall Mac asked me to come work with him but I was unsure of my ability to give flight instruction as I had done but little besides which I had never really cared much about flying light airplanes However I must say that the thought of a weekly paycheck through the long winter months was a very entiCing one especially

after the unsuccessful Florida opershyation of the previous winter

So I could obtain the newly-reshyquired flight instructors license Mac put a new Taylorcraft at my disposal and I practiced hard for the flight test This was a comshypletely new kind of flying and there were many new maneuvers and training exercises for me to abshysorb the basics of then later learn to fly with precision To fly these maneuvers myself I found was one thing but to then try to teach them to someone else required a thorough knowledge and undershystanding of basics as well as a practical and precise application of

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everyday aerodynamics It was a most challenging and rewarding kind of flying that I seemed to fit in with very well so much so I guess that I ended up spending the rest of my career totally and completely engaged in pilot trainshying and pilot checking activities

Although the following summer I was able to get fuel and did reshyturn to the Islands with my younger brother Bill helping me it

school became authorized to conshyduct training in advanced flight courses and Mac sent Barb June and me to Rochester to obtain our CPT Secondary Instructors Ratings and to learn aerobatics and many new precision maneuvers We were given our flight training in a Waco F-2 How pleasant to be in an open cockpit again and a lovely nimble F-2 as well

One snowy night Mac and I

look after and which I was to fly for over three years and many many wonderful hours

With the purchase paperwork completed Mac and I donned heavy winter flying gear then side by side took off and flew these two beautiful new airplanes eastshyward across snow-covered Ohio upper New York state and home to Syracuse All the way we flew close alongside each other and

By 1942 we were in full swing flying Waco UPF-7s for the Civilian Pilot Training Program Bill Cass is flying NC30186 at dawn during a training flight

turned out that this year 1941 was to be the end of many wonderful years of seaplaning for me Yet for a long time afterward I continued to dream of returning and came very close to doing so seven or eight years later The Waco after a few years of dead storage was sold

The following winter found me back in McGlynns Taylorcraft again but this year in January the

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climbed aboard the New York Censhytral 20th Century Limited and rode a Pullman sleeper through the night to Cleveland In the mornshying we then took a bus to Troy Ohio and the Waco factory where outside on the flight line were two brand new blue and yellow UPF-7 Waco trainers waiting for us Mac asked me which one I wished and I chose NC30128 which was mine to

there was a pleasant feeling of comshypanionship as one or the other of us would occasionally pull in closer for a wave or a gesture or to feign a shiver Macs face was florid and ruddy from the cold but somehow in the drafty cockshypit he was able to keep a cigarette going as evidenced by the continshyual puffs of smoke streaking towards the Wacos tail throughshy

It was a most challenging and rewarding kind of flying that I

seemed to fit in with very well so much so I guess that I ended up

spending the rest of my career totally and completely engaged in

pilot training and pilot checking activities

out the entire flight How much nicer it is to be aloft

sharing a pleasant flight with anshyother aviator even though in another airplane No you are unshyable to speak to one another yet a definite communication and unshyderstanding exists and is felt by both A rigid arm over the side in the powerful prop stream pointing to a winding creek bed or the disshytant frozen lakeshore or pointing to a puffy white cloud ahead racshying toward us faster and faster then sliding past just above our upper wings then slowing and slowing as it fades behind us beshycoming smaller and smaller And the other airplane alongside truly a beautiful creation when seen in her own element perfectly framed by the earth and sky and puffy white clouds over the lakeshore in the background Except for the soft motions of flight she seems suspended on an invisible string Silently because you cant hear her above the roar of your own engine she drifts slowly up then slowly down then slowly in then slowly slides away wafted in the gentle currents of the airmans sky Her slightly moving control surfaces occasionally and momenshytarily deflect into their flowing airstreams as she is gently nudged and guided along her course homeward

Her shimmering propeller reshyflects the brightness around her and I marvel at the discs great size and thrust and the power necesshysary to turn it Her toed-in landing gear below at full strut extension for softening that always impendshy

ing touchdown make her appear shes on stilts Then I ease forward to check her lovely lines from that angle then drift back and gently nudge the controls to slip up and over until I look straight down into Macs cockpit then down and beshylow her How beautiful and functional she is

We buzzed and circled the field in close formation then I eased back to follow Mac in A large group as well as our new advanced students applauded our lovely new airplanes as we taxied up

The following early morning the new airplanes were scheduled to be put to work and it was still dark when I arrived at the hangar at 600 am Before going to my flight locker to don my sheepskin-lined heavy winter flying suit and boots and gloves I lowered an electric immersion heater into the SAE 70 heavyweight oil in the Wacos oil tank this to pre-warm the oil so the propeller could at least be pulled through by hand

My first student was dressed and ready to fly at 700 am Together with pinch bars we pried open the creaking frozen hangar doors and rolled her backwards into the cold dawn and her wheels crunched through the hard-packed snow as we pushed her back I then flew her all day long munching on ocshycasional sandwich and hot chocolate brought by my students during fuel stops

The students assigned each inshystructor were to be taken by him through the entire course of 35 hours We were to be paid for each student who completed the course

and it was known we would fly seven days a week until each class was completed Instructor rest came between classes Besides himshyself Mac wished for his instructors to also have the opportunity to make a few dollars and like the others I was assigned eight stushydents each of whom was scheduled to fly his programmed one hour a day

Such an ambitious schedule lasted about three days because there just was not enough daylight during the winter months to get the work done and turn-around fueling and very necessary student briefings eroded the training badly Besides this the work turned out to be very fatiguing because after a few hours in an open cockpit in the dead of winter an enveloping chill would creep in that took most of the following night to shake off We each continued Macs first class with six instead of eight students

The UPF-7 Waco used in the proshygram was a tough rugged airplane much stronger and heavier than the Waco F-2 series with which I was very familiar Although basishycally identical in airframe and powerplant the F-2s delightful nimbleness and great performance was lost as Waco complied with rigid military trainer specifications But you didnt have to worry about the UPF-7 falling apart under the high stresses of the advanced aeroshybatic maneuvering that was called for in the course program

The flying maneuvers for each days training were programmed in advance and were very well thought out As a result most of the

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students progressed through the course at pretty much the same pace Working with my six stud ent s I might spend th e enshytire day Monday hour after hour doing exacting eights around pylons Tuesday beaushytiful Chan d e li es Wednesday all day snapro lls Th ursday demanding slow rolls Friday punishing split-Ss Saturday half rolls Sunday Immelshymans etc

This just had to be a fine learning experi shyence and it was possible to become toshytally familiar with aircraft control and its analysis in any and all While covered head to toe with my sheepskin fur lined flying suit to protect against the upstate New York attitudes of flight My winter chill we flew during all the daylight hours we could while instructing in the UPF-7

CPT training activities continued for three years and 1900 hours of flight I loop out but at very high speed would not take a million dollars for to level out at the bottom of the this tremendous experience

My boss Fred McGlynn was chatting with me over a bowl of Bill Churchills finest soup at the airport lunchroom one day Mac asked if I had ever attempted a square loop and I confessed that I never had and asked that he describe one for me as I might try one

He said that you should push over and get the Waco diving to about 190 mph then ease back on the stick until pointing straight up where you were to do a half roll then ease the control stick forshyward pushing the airplane which was now right side up over the top to level flight Here you were to do another half roll to become again properly inverted (as would normally be the case at the top of a loop) allowing the nose to fall and then executing a complete roll while heading straight down to be followed by a normal final

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square loop Although I had never read anyshy

thing about this in our aerobatic manuals this sounded like a very interesting maneuver and I was anxious to try it A few days later with a live-wire student in the rear cockpit I decided to give it a try

With plenty of altitude to keep me out of trouble I nosed the Waco over into a whistling dive eased back on the stick and as the nose rose into a very steep climb opened the throttle wide We roared skyward and were soon headed straight up at which point I eased the stick forward to disconshytinue the looping arc and applied aileron so as to begin the first half roll of Macs new maneuver

At completion of the roll the stick was eased further forward to then continue our arcing flight and over the top so as to complete the first half of the square loop But it was to m y dismay that I

noted speed was decreasing at an alarming rate and at about the same time the negative gs resultshying from the steadily held forward elevator flung all the fuel from the carburetor bowl whereupon the engine now deprived of fuel ceased firing At this pOint the airplane was only a few degrees past the vertical and standing straight up on its tail

The propeller and engine ahead of us clank clank clanked to a dead stop Desperately I moved the Wacos controls in any and all directions but to no avail The airstream sounds of flight and the whistling wing brace wire sounds rapidly diminished to absolute sishylence and we hung there like a spent arrow Cows mooing dogs barking train whistles and auto horns beeping below could be clearly heard Still we hung there pointing straight up despite everyshything I tried

It seemed like forever before the Waco slowly started sliding back-

wards then with a resoundshy twisted at a crazy angle yetAs we neared the wreckageing neck-bending crash miraculously still an integral flipped violently end for end part of the almost severed aft and in a split second was portion of the fuselage The tershypointed straight down As we stirred as the student pilot ribly twisted tail flopped slowly now dove for the earth the up and down in the now badly dead propeller ahead slowly beshy distorted and buffeting gan turning again and the airstreams held to the still-inshypushed crumbled debris asidesounds of flight again came tact forward airframe only by alive Clank clank clank the one remaining crimped and clank clank and the engine bending longeron windmilled back to life I ginshy I recognized the still airborne crawled out from unde0 then gerly recovered to level flight second airplane as one of Macs and was mopping my brow and red Taylorcrafts and knew that thanking my lucky stars that the student pilot at the controls the airplane was still in one ran with all his might for 100 was one of Macs mechanics piece when my student in the Jack Ryan whom I had sent out cockpit behind shook the stick on his first solo only a few days to get my attention eased the previously Part of Jacks pay for yards where he slowly satthrottle back and shouted forshy working in Macs shop was in ward Wow that was great flying time and he was practicshyLets try it again ing on his lunch hour

Later I told Mac what had down and then lit a cigarette The collision impact had taken place Yeah he said I had the same trouble

It had been a fine spring day and I was walking back to the hangar from the airport lunchroom with McGlynn and Harry Ward when there was a terrible whump in the sky above us and splinters of wood and torn fabric began raining down Soloing students in two red Taylorcrafts had collided with each other while flying the downwind leg of the airport circuit pattern

In these side-by-side high-wing aircraft the pilot sat just beneath the wing which placed his eye level only a few inches below the wings lower surface thus causing bad blind spots One of the trainers had been descending the other climbshying with each in the others blind spot continuing until the pilot beshylow at the last moment saw a planes landing gear wheels deshyscending rapidly toward him just forward of his windshield

They collided and for many secshyonds were locked together Then they came apart and more fabric and debris fell One airplanes wooden propeller had been chewed to a splintered stub where it had

sliced through the others aft fuseshylage and the now unburdened engine screamed Its right wing had been shattered and it was comshying down in a very fast-turning almost flat spin rotating almost as a helicopters rotor blades spinshyning rapidly but descending slowly We raced toward the scene as it hit with a frightful whump and a cloud of dust and flying parts It was an awful sound As we neared the wreckage stirred as the student pilot pushed crumbled deshybris aside crawled out from under then ran with all his might for 100 yards where he slowly sat down and then lit a cigarette When we got to him he was leaning on an elbow and puffing away unhurt

But the second Taylorcraft was still up there and in real trouble Three of its four fore-and-aft-runshyning fuselage steel tubing longerons just forward of the stashybilizing and controlling tail surfaces had been severed by the other planes propeller and its vershytical and horizontal tail surfaces were canted sharply upward and

spun his airplane around and headed it toward a far corner of the L shaped field Jack had

no elevator control or rudder conshytrol only thrust from the still-operating engine and lateral banking control by use of his aileron control wheel still attached to the end of its now flapping useshyless cockpit arm and the trailing dead elevators This was not much with which to control an airplane and how he ever got it down I do not know but Jack did so and with only a few moderate bounces While the plane was still rolling he cut the engine and as the propeller flopped to a stop she ground looped and then as she slowed the dangling tail fell off and dragged and bounced behind held to the airplane only by the still intact but totally useless control cables and tail running light wires

We ran to the airplane and slapped his back over and over again and congratulated him and laughed with him as he mopped his brow Jack was later to become a very dear friend and we were to work alongSide each other for many years with the same airline Hes gone now

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

Stearman Flying By Lauran Paine Artwork by Jim Newman

Just recently finished recurshyrent ground school at my airline It was magnificent We discussed GCUs BBPUs DC GENs AC GENs TRUs

PSEUs ECUs FIBAR LOGERS and WOW lights We even got into ZNshyTOL DDTOL and six-six-and-six And spoilers TCAS GPW and TCAs I even passed the test Well I did miss some of the Chakerian Quesshytions (Chakerians the guy who updated the test) You know the type questions What is the square root of the fuel output of the HMU at takeoff power Consider the coeffishycient of expansion for titanium at ISA +20 in your answer and show your work

There was one thing that was not mentioned during the three days of ground school flying for fun Yeah just flying for fun the reason most of us got started in this aviation business In all our modern day soshyphistication I think the concept of fun often gets overlooked Sure professional avia tion is a serious business but its not so serious that we shouldnt occasionally rekindle the spirit of flying just for the joy of it

So when I got home I put on my jeans and cowboy boots and my Real Airplanes Have Round Enshygines T-shirt and sauntered on out to the local airdrome Opened the hangar door and there it sat Stearshyman Fifty years old sitting on its tail nose pOinted proudly up No cockpit key No cockpit door No cockpit roof

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or Fun Walked around it Patted it Fine

linen Talked to it Asked it how it was doing Checked the oil Got some on me and wiped it on my pltlnts The fun was beginning

Pushed it out into the sunshine Looked at it Pure Simple Strong The heart beats a little faster the soul comes alive

Got in Seat belt on just like an airliner Similarity stops there howshyever Flight controls are manual no hydraulics no spoilers Stick conshynects to rods to cables You can check the connections by looking down beneath your feet no floor just a couple boards where your feet go Before you go and get uppity on me the Stearman does have hydraulics the brakes You tap the pedals and a rod goes into a cylinder that has a line that goes to the wheels and exshypands some stuff in there Bout all you need to know dont use em much anyway Anti-skid Anti-skid is a ground loop We try not to use anti-skid

Fuel system You bet we have one No electronic enrichment however Throttle is connected to a rod that disappears through the firewall and goes to the get this carburetor I know its there because I bolted it on Didnt use any metric tools either

Fuel quantity system Yup Cork floats in the gas Cork has a wire on it that I can see through a sight gauge Single point refuel too Only one fuel cap

Switch on Its the shiny one I emphasize one because it is about

the only one Kinda clicks when you turn it on They tell me that click is the solenoid Doesnt matter If it doesnt click it doesnt work

Thumb on the button we found on one of the dusty hangar shelves and the prop turns Eventually all the clanking stops and the round motor settles into idle Smoke Vishybration Wind in the face Words cant describe

Taxi to lOL via Sierra Six to Bravo then Sierra Five to the inner ramp then Echo Two to Echo Nope Just mosey over to where the grass is smashed down Dont get uppity on me again we have a radio Just cant hear it very well over all the beautishyful engine sounds It detracts We know when we have to use it Dont have to use it to mosey

Center line lights Transmissomeshyters CAT II hold lines Sorry Centerline weeds maybe Line up on the weeds Push up the throttle Autshyofeather Hope not only have one feather Tail comes up How many airliners can do that The runway that was hidden behind the engine appears Then disappears Couple of hundred feet to flight Again how many airliners can do that Gear up Nope They are welded where they need to be leave them alone thank you Flaps up Not

Contact departure control Sure Wave to the small group that always gathers when the Stearman flies Dont put your arm out too far in the slipstream though Youre goshying darn near ninety Your arm will involuntarily conform to the slipshy

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stream if youre not careful VORl Transponder Radar vecshy

tors VNAV RNAV MLS Naw just roads rivers towns and mountains

Settle in Noise Wind Slow movshying scenery Guyon the combine disappears beneath the leading edge of the lower wing He reappears shortly beneath the trailing edge Guy in the boat in the river makes a U-turn and stops I watch the wake dissipate I look up Blue sky My goggles just about blow off my face This is flying this is fun It just doesshynt get any better than this It just doesnt I fly on to make it last I am lost in joy

Return for landing Vectors to the localizer and couple up the autopishylot Right Line up on final Runway disappears behind the round motor up front Pick out some landmarks at the end of the runway I know are there Grass rushes by under the

lower wing Wheels touch and I beshygin talking sternly to my airplane Go straight Go straight Go straight Dont you even try to swap ends It goes straight I dont use the anti-skid

Taxi to the hangar Dont have to use the hydraulic system (the brakes remember) Just throttle on back and she comes to a stop Shut her down Dont move Just sit there Listen Light breeze Engine crackles Reflect this is living the world would be a better place if more people could experience this It really would

Push her back in the hangar gotta go fly the airliner tomorrow SophiSshytication Structure Weather Traffic Dont get me wrong I love what I do I know it would be difficult for an airline to show a profit with a fleet of Stearmans But nowhere in the operations manuals the stanshy

dards manuals or the FARs does the word fun appear When is the last time you heard the FAA use that word So I just went out and made it so You can too All you need is a small airplane-I prefer fabric and tailshywheels but I certainly wont begrudge you metal with a noseshywheel-to fly off a small airport far from a city on a nice day Its where its at Promise

Back to the airline ground school instructorfriend Chakerian Rememshyber The square root guy I think I can lead him to the truth In fact I know I can because he said hed buy the gas I have him studying for my ground school Im gonna ask him How many wings does a Stearman have Answer enough to fly just for the fun of it

(EditorS Note Laurans article origishynally appeared in the Stearman Restorers Association newsletter) ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11

PASS IT TO BUCK by EE Buck Hilbert

EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 Union IL 60180

Losing and Learning

We lost a good friend this week former EAA Museum Foundation Dishyrector radio personality and good friend Bob Collins

In addition to being an avid sport pilot motorcyclist and advocate of free speech he was a friend to seemshyingly everyone We all felt he was our personal radio announcercomshymentator and that he was our personal champion

His demise was and is a tragedy Maybe it could have been avoided but rather than speculate or point fingers perhaps we should review some of our basic flight instruction

I was taught from the very beginshyning of my flight instruction to never fly in a straight line Climbing turns and gliding turns were for the purshypose of vigilance Climbing or descending in a straight line was dangerous because you could climb up into an unseen aircraft above you or descend into an aircraft below you

I had all but disregarded that when I became an airline pilot until that one day when we were climbing on course at cruise speed and had a near miss

I was an experienced copilot my captain an old-timer and I hasten to add one of the best We were runshy

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ning a little behind schedule (what else is new) and in an attempt to make up the time were climbing on course at cruise speed

Captain Joe was using the PA sysshytem telling the passengers what we were doing and how we were going to make up as much time as possible As he was talking he was hand flying the airplane and giving most of his attention to his speech We all do this there arent many people who can efficiently talk into a microshyphone and give full attention to the matters at hand too Take a look at the cars weaving to and fro while somebody talks on a cell phone As a matter of fact there is legislation here in Illinois that allows the police to intervene if they spot someone talking on a telephone while driving

Something attracted my attention just above the center of the windshyshield It was an ADF teardrop on the belly of a DCA and it was only a few feet above our airplane His cruise speed and our climb-cruise speed were the same I could see the rivets on the belly we were that close

I began to apply forward pressure on the yoke Captain Joe began to pull I pushed a little harder and since he was talking on the PA sysshytem I didnt want to make noises

that would alarm the passengers I pushed a little harder he pulled harder and I kept looking at that ADF dome and those rivets until he finally looked over at me and I moshytioned for him to look up

He PUSHED We both sat there hyperventilatshy

ing with the realization that we had come very close I dont recall our ever filing a report on this Maybe if we had it would have prevented the incident that happened just a few weeks later over South Bend Indishyana

Same scenariO a different crew again a UAL Convair 340 climbing on course They came right up under an American Airlines 240 sticking their topside antennas into the belly of the airplane The minor structural damage and the resultant sudden deshycompression almost blew both airplanes away Equipment logbook hats and coats went out the hole in Uniteds Convair and the radios were inoperable because they lost their antennas

Baggage and cargo blew out of the belly of the other Convair

Both airplanes made safe landings

-Continued on page 25

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By Budd D~visson VINT AGE AIRPLANE 13

These days the Moore children and Eds 93-year-old mother point at the Howard with a cershy

tain amount of pride After all the judges selected it as Reserve Grand Champion -Antique at the annual beauty contest in Oshkosh 1999 thus making it the last such Chamshypion of the millennium

The Moore children arent really jealous and the Howard is far from beshying the first airplane in their lives which shared in their parents affecshytion Airplanes have been part of the Moore tradition since long before they were born so theyve grown up with airplanes as part of their tribe

Ed Moore a native of Queens New York had to have been born with a seshyvere case of aviationitis as being an aviation nut in the five boroughs of NYC isnt as easy as elsewhere in the

140 For his instrument ticket he jumped into the then sophisticated Piper Tri-Pacer By that pOint he was hooked on aviation and after going to college at Queens College got his first paying job ferrying new aircraft out of Pipers Lock Haven plant to dealers all over the country Then it was out to the very tip of Long Island where he was flying air taxis out of Montauk Point

Ed continued building time until he finally found himself in the right seat of an airliner which was his cashyreer until retiring a few years ago During his quarter of a century with the airlines he flew nearly everything At the beginning he was looking out at the whirling props on his DC-3s and his final assignment was flying Lshy1011s across the pond to Europe The technological progress was enormous

friend Paul Gillman figured heavily in bringing the Fleet back to life as he did in the later Howard project Three years later the Fleet returned to its eleshyment with the only concessions to modern times being a tailwheel in place of the skid and a steel HamshyStandard prop

Has he had the Fleet to Oshkosh No because its too far the airshyplanes too slow and my rear end can only take just so much

Then one day they had the Fleet at an airshow and they saw a yellow and black DGA-15 Howard Ed says Barshybara looked at him serious as a heart attack and said If we ever buy anshyother airplane thats what its going to be The seed was planted

That was 1982 and they began disshycussing the possibility of a Howard with friends one of whom called and

thfY saw aYfllow and black DGA-15I1oward (d says Barbara lookfd at him sfrious as ahfart attack and said ulf Wf fVfr buy anothfr airplanf thats what its going to bf

country To even begin to get out where grassroots airports exist means a serious pilgrimage out of town In the late 1950s however when Ed was still in high school and coming to terms with his affliction there was still one airport which existed within the New York City proper Designated Flushing-Queens Airport most of the locals usually referred to it as Speeds It was tucked between the buildings just on the other side of the East River and no matter which direction the student looked on downwind he was staring at lots and lots of buildings On final the runway looked like a slash through the Alaskan bush except the trees were made of concrete We wont even mention the other airport just a few klicks down the road - LashyGuardia Very intimidating But it was heaven for a young Ed Moore

Flying out of Flushing Ed rapidly soloed a J-3 Cub then got his private and commercial licenses in a Cessna

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Ed and Barbara make no bones about the fact that even though Ed made his living flying the most adshyvanced aircraft available their hearts were with airplanes of a different age In fact when they decided to buy their first airplane it was a Fleet Model 1 which had been updated meanshying its creaky old 110 hp engine had been replaced with a 125 hp Warner Ed says his choice was driven by grass runways and old fashion flyshying and Barbara is quick to chime in and round motors Dont forget round motors

The Fleet was a flying airplane when they got it but it had never been fully restored having had a seshyries of Band-Aids applied over the years They flew for a few months just enough to convince themselves it was a worthwhile project then took it apart and dragged it into their garage

Ed says it was a family project with everyone involved A good

told them about a ground looped Howard somewhere out in the Midshywest They went out and looked at it Deciding it was a good project for them they put a down payment on it and went home thinking they had an airplane Then came another call that told them the seller had decided to sell it to someone else despite their down payment The Moores were not happy people They were however now serious about finding a Howard

The trail for the right airplane led them all over the country and eventushyally to Eureka California Here too even though the airplane was a clean solid airframe that was a flyshying airplane they were to be disappointed After three hours of neshygotiating they couldn t get the price down to what they wanted to pay Turning their back on the airplane they drove into town and were sitting at a diner over breakfast when Ed says Barbara looked across the table at him

Hulking grace

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

and said You know youre a jerk Youre less than $2000 apart Weve spent more than that looking at airshyplanes and this is a good airplane Go buy it

Ed took the hint left his eggs to cool and went to a pay phone where he bought the airplane

The owner didnt want me to fly it from the left seat and Id never flown

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one So I did five or six touch and goes from the right seat and that was it Ed says

The owner had been flying the airshyplane for 27 years and really didnt want to sell it but he needed a hip replacement and didnt have insurshyance Hed never seen the airplane fly until I took off with it Barbara was with him as she had to return

the rental car and she says he had tears in his eyes We felt terrible Abshysolutely terrible So next year were taking the airplane back to Eureka and let him fly it

The airplane was painted brown with Day-Glo registration numbers and on two of the three fuel stops on the way home Ed says people said Wow With numbers like those we at

least know you arent running drugs One of the first things they did when they got home was to repaint the liN numbers a more subtle color

The airplane proved to be a solid performer and they flew it for nearly six years before deciding to rebuild it They had it at Sun n Fun twice each time with a sign displayed that said Some day were going to rebuild it They still have the sign and are thinkshying of continuing to display it with the airplane Of course the logical reshysult of that will be people looking at the now nearly perfect airplane and saying rebuilt it To what

Originally a Navy NH-1 trainer the Moores Howard had always been in dry climates After being surplused in 1946 the airplane went immediately to Klamath Falls Oregon then to the previous owner in Eureka California which make the Moores only its third civilian owner The airplane had always been hangared someshything which Ed says contributed to the basic airframe being almost perfect inside There was no corroshysion or rot anywhere

What they did discover however was a substantial crack in the left main spar This was found by Mark Grusauski North Canaan CT who was their choice to do most of the reshybuild Once the Moores start talking about Grusauski its obvious it is more than simply a professional relashytionship In fact Ed is so enthusiastic about Marks skills and dedication to the project he said I love that kid Absolutely love him

Grusauski runs a company named Wing Works but Ed says airplanes arent Marks business they are his life and it shows on the Moores Howard They are so concerned that Mark knows how much they apprecishyate his work that the championship trophy is going to stay at Marks for the first year

Grusauski who is 39 years old opened up the damaged wing and reshyplaced all but 30 of the tip of the spar and reskinned the wing In so doing he found the rest of the wood in both wings was excellent and the

glue was holding up perfectly He stripped the rest of the airplane down to nothing sand blasting and painting as he brought the airplane back up All of the metal fairings were replaced which shows his skill with the English wheel

Everything which carried elecshytricity in the airplane was replaced by Paul Gillman who also did all of the systems

Mark subbed the fabric work on the tail out to noted antiquer jim jenkins who also did the final paint along with Mark

When discussing the paint Ed gets a little more intense as the experience of painting the airplane turned out to be fairly intense The color they seshylected started out as a 1997 Corvette red Somewhere along the line they found the paint supplied for the metal didnt match what theyd already shot on the fabric This is a common probshylem but they werent about to accept a mismatch regardless of how minor it might be Ed took the rudder down to DuPont in Delaware and they mixed some paint they said would match It didnt Repeatedly they would shoot a part and it would look good until they took it outside where it didnt match in sunlight Finally Mark ran out of patience with the professional paint mixers and began modifying the formula himself a little at a time Finally after a solid month of mixing and testing paint he called Ed and told him theyd finally hit the right mix Ed took one look agreed and they finished painting the airplane

In doing the interior Ed had more freedom than many do in restoring airplanes because the lSPs were originally military airplanes which were all modified when surplused For that reason is no such thing as a truly standard interior other than the military style Ed and Barbara deshycided on a relatively simple interior which they feel is representative of what Wallace Beery might have had in his airplane The material used for the seats is 1940 Cord (as in Auburn-Cord-Dusenburg) and the headliner is 1940 Packard They had

the interior done by john Chase of Skin and Bones (dont you love that name) of Marlborough Mass john really got into the project and rather than moving parts to his shop moved his sewing machine to the airport Barbara says lilt was really hot out there and John would be working on the airplane and look up and say isnt this great He was loving it

The Moores had had the engine overhauled by Dumont only 60 hours prior to tearing the airplane down for rebuild so it was in basically good condition They pickled it but when rehanging it replaced all of the hoses and gaskets

The airplane flew for the first time July 26th only two days before EAA AirVenture 99 was to begin They fine tuned it then left for Oshkosh I gave Mark his first ride at that time and hes still grinning To us its a toss-up as to who actually owns the airplane us or Mark he loves it that much When I left he told me to be careful which we were and are

One of the high points for the week besides winning the trophy was running down to the Howard reunion at DuPage County Airport in northern Illinois There Al Lund who owns two Howards himself told the Moores I All the Howard owners have gotten together and weve decided to ban you from further gatherings He was laughing at the time

So whats next for the Moores Well they have a Fleet 16B in storshyage and then there are the five Howard projects he and a partn er brought back from Alaska Will they do another Howard If we do we at least now know how to do it now

In contacting his daughter to tell her theyd won the award and were going to tour the US for a little while his daughter told him he should get a beeper so they can contact him when they need him His reply was INot a chance Did you keep in conshytact with me when you were sixteen1

So it looks as if Howie has won again ~

VINTAGE AIRCRAPT PALL PLY-IN JOHNS LANDING FIELD SOUTH ZANESVILLE OH Sponsored by EAA vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio By Candy Williamson

In east central Ohio tucked inshyside the wooded rolling hills and quiet farms is a well mainshy

tained grass landing strip and one of the most amiable groups of peoshyple youll find anywhere

Last September when fly-ins across the country were winding down for the year the sky over South Zanesville Ohio was alive with a colorful variety of aircraft and pilots Such has been the case every year since 1991 when the EAA Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio began sponsoring its Annual Antique amp Classic Fall Fly-In at Johns Landing Field approxishy

mately 60 miles east of Columbus The local EAA chapter was

started back in 1990 with just seven members As with all newly formed chapters the EAA allowed the group to choose which number they wanted to represent their loshycal chapter This became one of the first orders of business and in a relatively short period of time Chapter 22 was agreed upon Why the number 22I According to some of the founding members it was for a couple of reasons 1) the close proximity of the group to Route 22 in South Zanesville and 2) the phrase Catch 221-which

the members felt was a very approshypriate description of their organization in its beginning stages (ie if something could go wrong it would go wrong)

In spite of the Catch 22 refershyence the group had been quite successful and active since its humshyble beginnings back in 1990 and with a current membership of 35 boasts the title of the only EAA Vintage Aircraft chapter in the state of Ohio

The landing strip used for the annual fly-in has a story all its own Over the years and with support from members of EAA Chapter 22 friends and local neighbors John

Doc Smith spends few moments looking over the business end of the KR-21 restored by the

1~~~~I~I~~ii~~~~~ late Brown Dilliard Vi Blowers and theirill friends

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The beautiful field at Johns Landing near Zanesville Ohio

Here are a couple of views of Will Graffs Pietenpol

Morozowsky his wife Virginia and their son Anthony turned what was once a reclaimed strip mine into their dream-a private airport known as John s Landing This Vaughn Hawk starts to flare for landing in his clipped-wing Taylorcraft

grass strip has been host to a colshylection of some of the most popular

antique vintage rotor Pipers Cessnas-just to name a and homebuilt aircraft few-have been fly-in attendees ever assembled For the Many have been past trophy winshypast eight years some of ners at such notable events as the finest cloth and metal Oshkosh and the Sun n Fun EAA aircraft such as Wacos Fly-In Ercoupes Monocoupes The 1999 event was held on the Stearmans Stinsons sunny and unseasonably warm

weekend of Septemshyber 2S and 26 with

N1492G Wills from Wadsworth Ohio well over 100 aircraft participating It was an impressive event

Both Saturday and Sunday began with a slight hint of fog on the ground and credit goes to the volunteers from Chapter 22 who dedicated man y hours safely marshyshalling and parking the aircraft Visitshying pilots and guests were greeted with the 4-star hospishytality of the hosts good conversation and last but cershytainly not lea st great food Again members of Chapter

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

From Somerset Ohio this is Ralph Charles 1942 Aeronca 65-TAL Defender rolling out after landing Ralph is 100 years old

weekend in his 1942 Aeronca Deshyfender At 99 years of age (and looking forward to his 100th birthshyday which took place this past November) Ralph currently holds the title of oldest active pilot in the

United States His energy and enthusiasm was a delight to everyone

As mentioned earlier Chapter 22 is a relatively small group but its clear that their dedication and love of aviation is as big as the sky itshyself they should be commended for their comshymitment to making each of their fly-ins a first-class success Its quite evident that pilots and guests from Ohio and surrounding states find a friendly home for the weekend at John s Landing Even the FAA boys have a good time (it was rumored that one even loosened his necktie)

So dont forget to mark your calshyendar for late September 2000 and set your frequency to 263deg from Zanesville VOR (Latitude 39deg 53 55 Longitude 82deg 06 37) where great aircraft delicious food and a warm family welcome will greet you at the upcoming 9th Annual Vintage Aircraft Fall Fly-In at Johns Landing ~

Tony Morozowsky gives yet another of one of his many rides flown during the annual event This time his passenger is Jane Williamson a 1 O-year-old from Reynoldsburg Ohio

22 volunteered their time and talshyents over the course of the weekend to prepare hot meals-seasoned just right with a little homespun humor and served with a smile from the cooking crew-for the flyshyin attendees A special highlight was the huge Johns Landing cast iron kettle filled with gallons of hot bean soup and slowly simshymered over an open fire

This years attendees were far too numerous to mention individually but it would be a serious omission not to mention one fly-in particishypant in particular-one of Chapter 22s own members-Ralph Charles who roared out of the sky that

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Dale Crites and the Curtiss Pusher By Richard Hill

Enough years have passed since Dale flew the Curtiss Pusher at any event that many of our readers will not know who Dale Crites was Also very little has

been written to make people aware of Dale Crites and his planes For many years his Pusher was to be seen at alshymost any Midwest air event He asked for no special handling only the opportunity to fly his plane Many times he went out when I personally thought it was askshying too much in fact I once had an argument

ing the engine were like a religious chant Charlie would call for an item Dale would check and then answer It was also quite awkward for Charlie to swing that big wooden prop while starting the 01 OX When it started and belched a cloud of smoke back at him I reshyally wanted him to get right out of that lions cage But he never flinched It was always possible that the engine would quit if it was cold and he would have had to go to

the trouble of crawling back in

Dale flies Kaminskis Sweetheart during the 1969 EAA air show at about scheduling his The first Pusher Dale the Waukesha County airport in Wisconsin

flights at Oshkosh for later in the day My thoughts were twofold first when you schedule a show it would seem more interesting to have the best event last after a build-up That also would move his flight to a time when the wind had died down of course my suggestions were not wanted

Most of his flights were mere demonstrashytions but just seeing that old plane in flight was a crowd stopper For us Midwesteners it was commonplace to see Dale get in the seat and pull down his goggles necessary of course because he was first in line whenever a bug was out cavorting around We were accustomed to watching Judge Charlie Dewey clamber through the proliferation of bamboo wing struts and wires to get in position to pull the prop on the old OX-So

Their calls back and forth while primping and prim-

flew was called the Sweetheart by its owner Dick Kaminski

~ who started flying it in a 1912 He many demonshy~ J strations with the plane ~ but ventually it was c

~ damaged stored and forshygotten Many years later someone found it and began a restoration Litshytle was done and Dale took over to complete the restoration and beshygin flying the plane

Dale and his twin brother Dean born in January of 1907 were icons in Wisconsin aviation having been acshytive since the late 1920s Their flying school was well known and many Milwaukee aviators owe their individshyual expertise to them

There have been many attempts to build Pushers but Dales would be the most authentic because it was a restoration not scratch built People have flown several of them with modern engines and to me that would be

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Dale arrives with the Pusher loaded on the trailer and on top of his Dale and the F-117 crews who came to visit EAA Oshkosh 90 Chevy Kingswood Estate station wagon Just as in the days of old Dale would transport the Pusher from event to event rather than endure a cross-country flight with the Pusher

like having a tractor pulling a oneshyhorse-shay One guy was even so crass as to build a mini-pusher and also use a modern flat-four engine

Tom Murphy of The Dalles Oreshygon was a lot more accurate while building a Pusher to re-create an early event He flew the 80th anshyniversary of a flight from the post office building in Vancouver Washshyington to nearby Pearson Field with a trusty OX-5 That field was the site where a crew landed after a nonstop polar flight from Russia in 1934

The Curtiss OX-5 a water-cooled aviation engine was designed and built before WW 1 It developed 90 hp at 1400 revolutions per minute With prop hub water oil and all it weighed nearly 400 pounds That

gave a very poor power to weight rashytio Even so the engine flew more than a generation of aviators Many of those engines are still going For example at the annual Midwest Anshytique Airplane Club meeting at Brodhead Wisconsin six watershycooled engines are constantly in the air In a personal interview with the late Steve Wittman he told me that he flew an OX-5 powered Pheasant in the Transcontinental Race He said that there were two positions for the throttle closed and open

The Curtiss OX-5 was the most produced aircraft engine for WW-I Literally thousands were built and most of them went into the Curtiss Jenny the principal flight trainer for the US Army From 1919 on

Understandably the security around the Stealth fighter was tight Here two of the security force gendarmes stand watch over Dale and his Pusher

the Jenny was the star of weekend fairs and fly-in events all over Amershyica The next decade saw the OX-5 engine in almost every new plane that was built By 1930 supplies of new OX-5s were nearly depleted Other more powerful engines beshycame available and the OX was largely forgotten

But not the pilots that it trained They were the Barnstormers They became the pilots who gave thoushysands of people their first glimpse of the ground from high in the clouds These same pilots were to be the flight instructors who trained the next generation destined to head off to war General Hap Arnold started looking for a few good men to do the wartime training in the late 1930s and Dean and Dale were there for all of that wartime training and for the years afterward They continshyued and were going strong when Dale lost a battle with cancer in Febshyruary 1991 Dean is still with us a patron saint of aviation He attends most all of the nearby aviation events and is ever a promoter of avishyation sharing his knowledge with anyone bright enough to ask a quesshytion

In the early twenties when the Navy needed a more powerful enshygine in their modified Jenny seaplane the OXX-6 was produced A second set of spark plugs was added and the cylinder bore was inshycreased 18 Turning 1500 rpm it

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Three Pushers from different eras-The 1911 Curtiss Pusher the Fairchild A-1 0 Thunderbolt (rear) and the F-117 Nighthawk

VAA Director Jeannie Hill stands with one of her favorite pioneer aviators the late Dale Crites of Waukesha WI

produced 102 to 110 hp Another development from this

engine was the air-cooled Tank conshyversion Two brothers from Milwaukee Frank and Al Tank took an OX-5 and removed the original cylinders replacing them with airshycooled units that they had cast This engine developed 115 hp Several are still airworthy

The OX-5 Robins Birds Wacos Travel Airs and many other types carried a generation of commerce while awaiting the development of the Ford Stinson Fokker and other

trimotors trimotors because engine power did not grow as fast as the need for mass transportation

When Dale toured with the Pusher he would drive on site pulling a trailer with the plane folded inside The Pusher was built in ready to assemble sections because in the early days no one ever went very far by air It was much safer and much less expensive to haul it cross-counshytry than it was to fly it In the old days the airplanes were often shipped by rail

Even so at one local fly-in Dale departed to make a 20 mile crossshycountry flight while taking the Pusher back to Waukesha Airport where he had restored it

Dale and the Pusher came into the spotlight each time with no fanfare and left the same way Sometimes he would slip away not wanting to bother anyone who was watching the air show saying goodshybye to no one On arrival at an aviation meet there would be a scurry as the plane was unloaded and assembled Then the real show would start as he climbed on and Charlie squeezed through the flyshying wires The plane sat on tricycle landing gear The nose wheel was not steerable so Charlie had to walk with the plane to the takeoff site and steer it by pulling the tail down and swinging it The same

was necessary on return During the years they re-creshy

ated two other very important events One by taking his daughshyter for a ride seated beside him on the leading edge of the wing-a feat that had not been accomshyplished since the days when these planes were new

The other was the re-creation of Glen Hammond Curtiss first Hydroplane flight from Keuka Lake New York Hammondsport is located at the southern tip of the lake and that is also the site of the Curtiss Aviation Museum During the water portion of that event the noisy powerboat opershyators who wanted a close-up look gave him no consideration They

created heavy dangerous wakes but Dale was unruffled During this event a smaller steel replica of Glenn Curtiss original Pusher was unveiled near the shore

During the 1990 EAA Convenshytion Jeannie Hill asked Dale if he would like to have a photo session with the Stealth Fighter After a short discussion the plane was moved and Jeannie took the photos for this article with the pusher and the big jet Actually look closelyshythe Stealth and Curtiss are a pair of Pushers

Here we have photos of what is actually the oldest most primitive aircraft in Wisconsin and the newest most scientifically deshysigned transsonic laser guided aircraft in the world Parked toshygether at the 1990 Convention they demonstrate the extremes of technology The Sweetheart is displayed in the EAA AirVenture Museum and the Stealth is probashybly doing reconnaissance over Bosnia

Dale built three more of these planes after retiring the Sweetheart One is at the Curtiss Museum in Hammondsport Another can be viewed hanging from the rafters of the airline terminal at MilwaukeeS Mitchell Field The other remaining pusher is owned by Dales son and is stored on the West Coast ~

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Coffman OX-5 Monoplane

Decembers Mystery was much more difficult than usual with Sam Burgess and Marty Eisenmann sendshying us these answers

Marty had it right I have to guess the December

MP is the Coffman OX-5 monoplane No3 The reference is from Ceo Coodshyheads articles in March 1987 and July 1990 Quite comprehensive

Marty E Alta Lorna California

Sam may have missed it but his answer was fun anyway

It certainly not a Curtiss Robin but I believe it to be an Overcashier with a Waco 10 cowl I have no history on it

There was one in the Detroit Michishygan area in the late 1930s and it won and OX-5 race in Pontiac In this event I flew a Travel Air along with a Robin two Waco lOs a Fairchild KR-31 and another Travel Air With a solo license I would do anything for free flying time

As my aircraft was the slowest the proshymoter of the race offered me $5 to break a bag offlour over the side of the cockshypit to simulate a fire and tum away at the third circuit

Those old birds had grease and oil all over them and I had placed the bag on the floor but when I reached for the bag the oil soaked bottom gave way and the flour exploded in the cockpit I could not see as the flour had turned to dough in my eyes so knowing how sta-

The unusual wingtips on this pioneer era Mystery Plane should be a strong clue for those of you who enjoy reviewing the early days of aviation

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ble this old bird was I just let go of the stick and added full power and reshycovered in somewhat level flight

The promoter and crowd were pleased and Im stillooking for my five bucks

It its not the Overcashier it makes for a good story anyway

Sam Burgess San Antonio Texas Most everyone else thought it

was the Overcashier as well and they do look very similar but a close look at the tail surfaces conshyfirmed the original identification of the photo which came from the collection of Charles Trask

Other answers were received by Brad Larson Santa Paula CA John Kennelley Norwalk IA Robert F Pauley Farmington MI

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but again it could have been catashystrophic There were full loads on both airplanes plus the crews

The point I am making is that simple climbing turns and better vigilance could have been a decidshyedly smarter action in both these cases That refresher of the basics served me for the rest of my career

I and still does to this day I Another lesson that needs reitershy

ating is the straight-in approach Tower or no tower in my mind its aNONO

Again coming straight-in whether youre talking to what you think is your traffic the tower or are just plain no radio that operation is absolute folly This may be what happened to my good friend Bob He was cleared for a straight-in and for whatever reason he lost sight of the other airplane after acknowledgshying it s p rese nce During the NTSB press conference they detailed the timeline of the accident Less than a minute later during h is approach he and the other pilot came together as they were both on final approach only 19 miles from the end of runshyway 23 at Waukegan IL

Take that extra two or three minshyutes At an uncontrolled field do a 360 overhead and study the runshyway look for obstructions and other traffic Controlled Field Ask fo r a base leg or downwind entry -lookshying out the widows during the turn you may di scove r someon e n o t where the tower controller thought they were

LOOK Check the entire traffic pattern

dont drag the downwind out so fa r that you have a miles long final and if you do do som e S turns and check all sides especially below A midair can ruin your whole day Beshysides we need all you EAA members in ALL the Divisions not just Vinshytage

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WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING by HG Frautschy

TIM LEBARONS J-SA Indianas had its share of snow this past winter and Tim

LeBaron of Sheridan Indiana has been having a grand old time with his 1940 Piper ]-5A slippin along on SC-2 skis This particular J-5 is powered by a 90 hp Continental has been domiciled in Wisconsin nearly all of its life until it was brought to the Hoosier state a year and a half ago

RARE TRI-CON This pretty grass field in Iowa is the setting

for Sheldon Kongables Champion Tri-Con one of only 5 still registered with the FAA Sheldon has a Continental 0-200 engine installed in his 7]C replacing the original C-90 The unusual half-tailwheel configuration of the 7JC was an effort by Champion to make the airplane more docile on the ground but the concept never did catch on There were only 22 built in 1960 Most were converted to the 7FC standard tailshywheel configuration

26 MARCH 2000

WACO TREK By Pat Quinn Famed aviation artist Matt Jefferies (VAA

4026) of Studio City California recently donated his pristine 1935 Waco YOC N 540Y to the Virginia State Aviation Mushyseum in Richmond Virginia Shown here in the photo before its donation is Matt and his wife Mary Ann

Bought in 1967 at Reno Nevada the Waco was in pretty sad condition when it was ferried to the Santa Paula Airport by Matt and renowned aviation illustrashytor Bob OHara He started an immediate restoration doing much of the work with the help of his friends The Wacos first post-restoration flight took place in April 1977

Growing up in Richmond Virginia Matt had admired the beautiful high-gloss black and white Waco cabin bishyplane of Joseph Cannon producer of Cannon towels That was the paint scheme Matt chose to duplicate on his Waco

The YOC is powered with a 225 hp Jacobs NCl7740 was purchased new in 1935 by the Adjutant General of the state of Indiana

Arriving in California during 1952 with his wife Mary Ann Matt became a technical illustrator and artist for Air Progress working for the magazine until 1962 He be-

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came an art director for Desilu Studios and in 1963 he designed the starship Enterprise for the famed Star Trek television series (Another aviation notable had a hand in the creation of the Enterprise - Volmer Jensen s shop built the model of the spacecraft for Desilu ) Matt reshymained there through 1967 and the first 79 episodes He often says the Enterprise paid for his Waco

He decided to donate the Waco to his home state avishyation museum as his flying career was coming to an end due to declining eyesight Corporate pilot Freed Chisolm and Joanne Vest delivered it to Richmond

A RARE SET OF FLOATS From Kenai Alaska come these two pictures of a set of

Lange 2425 floats complete with Stinson L-5 rigging Tony Lange of Milwaukee WI during WW-II built them

These shots were sent in by Dale Aldridge 47910 Intershylake Dr Kenai AK 99611 The complete set is for sale From the photos the floats appear to be in excellent conshydition About the only thing missing would be the two nosepieces which could be easily fabricated

A check back in time shows that a Stinson L-5 on floats was pictured on page 7 in the August 1989 issue of Vintage Airplane (inset) Judging by these latest photos the floats in the 1989 photo is actually a set of Lange floats rather than Edo 44-2425 floats as mentioned

The rigging for the floats is quite a collection of pieces The two long pipes are the spreader bars with the long streamlined wires that form the X between the spreader bars On the right are the two water rudders with the rear struts above them The front struts are on the upper left (with the step attached) and the diagonal struts on the left side along with the two sets of cross wires from the floats to the airplane

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32 MARCH 2000

STRAIGHT AND LEVEL

2 VAA NEWS

4 AEROMAIL

5 THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER MARKERDutch Redfield

10 STEARMAN FLYING FOR FUNlLauran Paine

12 PASS IT TO BUCKlEE Buck Hilbert

13 ED AND BARBARAS HOWARD Budd Davisson

18 VAA CHAPTER 22 FLY-IN John Morozowsky

21 DALE CRITES AND THE CURTISS PUSHER Dick andJeannie Hill

24 MYSTERY PLANEHG Frautschy

26 WHAT OUR MEMBERS ARE RESTORING HG Frautschy

28 CALENDAR

29 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

27 CLASSIFIED ADS

wwwvintageaircraftorg

Publislrer TOM POBEREZNY

Ediwr-in-Clrief scon SPANGLER

Executive Director Editor HENRY G FRAUTSCHY

Exeellive Editor MIKE DIFRISCO

Contributing Editor JOHN UNDERWOOD

BUDD DAVISSON

Art Director BETH BLANCK

Plrotograplry Staff JIM KOEPNICK LEEANN ABRAMS

MARK SCHAIBLE

AdvertisillglEditoriai Assislallt ISABELLE WISKE

SEE PAGE 32 FOR FURTHER VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INFORMATION

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Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















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30 MARCH 1999



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No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































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Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000









2 MARCH 2000
















































4 MARCH 2000











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The CPT Years







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5










6 MARCH 2000



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













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)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









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26 MARCH 2000



















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Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000
































4 MARCH 2000











bull I ears

att Outer Marker

The CPT Years







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5










6 MARCH 2000



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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26 MARCH 2000



















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When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000








4 MARCH 2000











bull I ears

att Outer Marker

The CPT Years







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5










6 MARCH 2000



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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24 MARCH 2000








J I I

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26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

bull I ears

att Outer Marker

The CPT Years







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5










6 MARCH 2000



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

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24 MARCH 2000








J I I

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Wing Area 247 sqft





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cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000










6 MARCH 2000



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














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24 MARCH 2000








J I I

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Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

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Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000






8 MARCH 2000


















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000






10 MARCH 2000













~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

~)

)r-vshy











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 11



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

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Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

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gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000



Losing and Learning







1 2 MARCH 2000






























14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000



















14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000














14 MARCH 2000






Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

Hulking grace

The Howard

DGA-15 looks

instrument panel

shows the airplanes


er heritage and the

unique control yoke




VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000




16 MARCH 2000


































1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000






























1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000












1 8 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000









VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000









20 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000


























22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000











22 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

YSTE PL N

by HG Frautschy














ject line

24 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000








J I I

u

lt



Length 23 ft 6 in

Wing Area 247 sqft





I

- u

gt










Over to you f( ~ r

cC-((ck

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000






26 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



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32 MARCH 2000



















euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000





euer built

When it comes



Craftsmen know


























Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000



Alexandre Souza



Claude N Fortin



Dennis C Goll





Alexander TrinJer



Gunnlaugur Karlsson


Thomas Blegstad






Walt Bowe Dublin CA









Santa Clarita CA

Samuel Vail Ojai CA

































Bay Saint Louis MS



















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

bullbullbull




MISCELLANEOUS










01


IU












30 MARCH 1999



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000



Clark is a senior




and Development




AUAis

~ approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft

Association call

800-843-3612




















No age penalty





VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT

ASSOCIATION










Cannon Foils MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogoolcom


414782-2633 e-mailshy

lumperexecpccom


Roanoke TX 76262 817491 -9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmCnet































32 MARCH 2000

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