STRAIGHT AND LEVEL

For the past few years we have heard predictions that the Oshkosh International Convention would drop in attendance How wrong these predictions have been 1980 was a banner year and there is no doubt that 1981 will be even greater Information from EAA Headshyquarters shows that the University of Wisconsin - Oshshykosh dormitory rooms were sold out six weeks earlier than in 1980 All motels in the area are again booked solid and the outlying motel and housing facilities are filled If previous growth rates in the Oshkosh campshying areas are any criteria then 1981 will be even larger

Our AntiqueClassic Division function at Oshkosh 81 will again handle about fifty per cent of all the show planes that will attend The basic parking areas will continue to be the same as designated through past years Under the guidance of Art Morgan and Bob Kesel parking and flight line safety chairmen the show planes will again be parked by the volunteers who spend many hours at their job

As the week continues and some of our display airshycraft make early departures we would like for those of you remaining to move your show planes into the empty spaces so as to fill in the rows The dates and times for these movements will be announced over the P A system and through a notice at the Red Barn This will improve the appearance of the area and allow the Convention membership to view and photograph our display aircraft during the latter part of the week withshyout tedious walking through different areas

During Oshkosh 80 we initiated an interview area to bring attention to various aircraft and the owners and pilots The success of this activity has prompted our Division to promote again this daily event and to expand the program throughout the Convention week Paul Stephenson is chairman of this event for Oshkosh 81 and through his able and capable expertise many of our members will be able to participate in this popushylar activity

Last year our AntiqueClassic hospitality tent was opened for the first time Many fine comments were received regarding the availability of this facility for use by OX-5 Aviation Pioneers QBs old timers and other antiqueclassic-related groups Chairs tables and an internal PA system will be available for activities such as type club business meetings or other functions not covered in individual forums Bob Wallace of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has volunteered to handle the scheduling of events in our hospitality tent

Ron Fritz and Jack Winthrop have compiled an outshystanding schedule for the AntiqueClassic forums durshying the Convention These will begin on Saturday August 1 and run daily from 9 a m through 3 pm continuing through Friday August 7 The exact locashytion will be printed in the Oshkosh 81 program book and daily schedules will be posted at the Red Barn

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division

Be sure to plan your schedules to include your favorite forums

The nostalgic Parade of Flight will again take place during the afternoon program on Wednesday August 5 Probably the most photographed single event the Parade of Flight under the direction of Phil Coulson and Wilshylard Benedict will highlight the activities of that day Your cooperation in the scheduling of this event as a flying participant will be appreciated and be sure to fill your empty seats with the working volunteers many of whom have never had a thrilling ride in an antique or classic aircraft

John Turgyan will again be in charge of our annual Division picnic This event becomes larger each year and we ran out of home-cooked food again last year John has made plans for a larger attendance during 1981 and requests that you obtain your picnic tickets early in the week Tickets will be available at the Red Barn and the food and beverages will be served in Ollies Park Time and date for the picnic will be posted on the bulletin board This social activity is one of the most popular events at the Convention for Division members

Our Division Headquarters at the Red Barn will again be under the direction of Kate Morgan and Janet Kesel and their fine group of volunteers Available for purchase again this year will be back copies of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE and various items such as jackets caps decals buttons and other related items which promote the Division The great hospitality of these volunteers who work in the Red Barn each year is a real asset to the AntiqueClassic Division

Information and scheduling for all volunteers will be under the direction of Jack Copeland and Edwin Hulbert Jack and Ed request that you sign up early for your volunteer work so they can plan the daily schedules most effectively Enough cannot be said for those members who volunteer each year during the Anshynual Convention Without the assistance of these fine people the success enjoyed by EAA and the Division would be impossible

The annual business meeting of the AntiqueClassic Division is scheduled for 1030 a m on Saturday August 8 in the Hospitality Tent The meeting is open to all Division members and their guests We look forshyward to seeing you again at Oshkosh 81 Fly safely straight and level and enjoy your Convention

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PUBLICATION STAFF

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EDITOR ASSOC EDITOR Gene R Chase George A Hardie Jr

FRONT COVER BACK COVER 1927 Waco 10 recently restored by J-4 Travel Air at the New London OH Clement H Armstrong Rawlings MD airport ci rca 1929 Note the N added See story on page 6 above the C5438 number on the rudshy

(Photo Courtesy of der It may have been a cont ract air Clement H Armstrong) mail plane

(Photo Courtesy of Dale Wolford )

TABLE OF CONTENTS Straight and Level by Brad Thomas 2 NC News by Gene Chase 4 Members Projects 5 Waco Ten NC3960 by Clement H Armstrong 6 Progress Report On EAAs Ford Trimotor 9 AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 Fly-In

by Brad Thomas 10 Forum Tent NO4 13 Drying Up The Lycoming 0-435 $$$ $

by Ed Skeeter Carlson 13 We Call Her Bobbi Tig Trout

by Glenn Buffington 14 Appeal by Glenn B uffing ton 17 Annual Michigan Volunteers Weekend At The

Museum 18 Book Review 19 Letters 20 Calendar Of Events 21

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Editorial Policy Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor Material should be sent to Gene R Chase Editor The VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Associate Editorships are assigned to those writers who submit five or more articles which are published in THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE during the current year Associates receive a bound volume of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE and a free one-year membership in the Division for their effort

THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) is owned exclusively by EAA AntiquelClassic Division Inc and is published monthly at Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 Second Class Postage paid at Hales Corners Post Office Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 and additional mailing offices Memshybership rates for EAA AntiqueClassic Division Inc are $1400 for current EAA members per 12 month period of which $1000 is for the publication of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE Membership is open to all who are interested in aviation

ADVERTISING - AntiquelClassic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through our advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken

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~ewsU Compiel by Gene Chase

BRADLEY AIR MUSEUM UPDATE

On October 3 1979 a tornado struck this museum causing extensive damage to 58 aircraft plus engines and other related exhibits This facility located at Bradley Field in Connecticut is getting back on its feet Planes that escaped serious damage are on disshyplay in a temporary location on Rt 75 in Windsor Locks A tract of 43 acres has been leased for 50 years and the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Associashytion Inc is making plans to erect a 30000 to 35000 square foot building on the site which is on the west side of Bradley International Airport in the towns of East Granby Suffolk and Windsor Locks from the Luscombe Association News edited by John Bergeson Mt Pleasant MI

EC776 SLOSHING COMPOUND

A letter received at EAA Headquarters outlines some precautions to be taken when using this particular sealant ATTN Chuck Larsen

Editor - EAA Designee Newsletter The article on fuel tanks in the April Designee

Newsletter recommending the use of EC776 sloshing compound should have included a hazard warning and safety precautions

EC776 is an ideal sealant for tanks but extreme caushytion must be used to prevent a violent explosion if the fumes from the EC776 are ignited One man was killed and a second one was injured seriously in an accident in this area while sloshing a tank with EC776

A fuel tank filled with EC776 fumes plus the fumes in the air around the tank creates one of the most powerful explosive conditions that you will encounter Anything that increases the vapors such as hot weather or large amounts of chemicals usually increases the risk of igniting the vapors

The following is a recommended list of precautions to be taken

1 Do Not slosh tank indoors outside only and in the shade if the sun is hot

2 No Smoking from any distance that fumes can be detected

3 No sparks fire electric motors or switches of any type are permitted

4 Ground wire for static ground is an added preshycaution A static spark from simply pouring the EC776 into the tank is possible Ground both the tank and the supply can of sealant

5 Observe all precautions until the sealant solidifies Jack Blackwell Designee 763 Chapters 32 and 581 St Louis Missouri

ANTIQUE AVIATION TOUR OF ENGLAND

George and Betty Michael of the PBS program Anshytiques will conduct a tour early this fall of the great English aviation museums - Biggin Hill DeHaviliand Mosquito Museum the Shuttleworth Collection Imshyperial War Museum Spitfire Museum etc Dates are September 19 to October 4 1981 A free brochure is available from Great Journeys Ltd PO Box 707 Annapolis MD 21403 Phone 301268-1860

ANTIQUECLASSIC BUILDING PROJECT

AntiqueClassic Division Chapter One known as FSAACA (Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association) is considering the sponsorship of a permashynent building at the Sun N Fun site at Lakeland FL The group has in mind a 40 x 50 log cabin design which would provide a headquarters operation for them during the annual fly-in Throughout the year it would serve as a storage building and a place for chapters and directors meetings

More will be forthcoming on this ambitious project which will be funded by donations

ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO STEAL AN ANTIQUE

As reported in the Funk Flyers Newsletter edited by G Dale Beach Sacramento CA someone tried to steal a Funk (N1611N) owned by Harold Emmerich Belleville IL His plane located in a hangar on his farm is usually pretty secure Harold had to be away one day recently and when he returned that afternoon he noticed his airplane sitting on the north end of his runway Someone had broken into the bird got it out of the hangar pried the ignition switch out of the panel got it started and taxied out Fortunately they forgot to turn on the fuel and the engine quit before they got airborne Then they must have been scared off and Harold now has his plane back in the hangar

ANTIQUE INSTRUMENT RESTORATION

For those who may have missed the notice in SPORT A VIATION we feel it is worthy of being repeated here

Restorers of antique and classic aircraft who find themselves in need of instrument refacing andor reshybuilding should contact Ohio Valley Speedometer Supshyply 7304 Greenlawn Rd Louisville KY 40222 Phone (toll free) 1-800-626-1588 The company uses a patented photochemical and typesetting process that not only makes the instruments look new again but provides protection when there is exposure to sun humidity heat and cold

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This section of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE is dedshyicated to members and their aircraft projects We welshycome photos along with descriptions and the projects can be either completed or underway Send material to the editor at the address shown on page 3 of this issue

THE YOUNKINS MR MULLIGAN AntiqueClassic Division members Bob and Jim Younkin apologized

while their Mister Mulligan replica project was being photographed on 52181 it appeared that little progress had been made since the photo was taken which appeared on page 27 of the August 1980 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE But anyone who has built from scratch a plane the size of Mulligan knows how time-consuming it can be to make such components as the fuel and oil tanks control system and the myriad of other detail work which must be completed before the craft can be covered

Bob and Jim are brothers living in Fayetteville Arkansas and are going to great pains to make this replica as authentic as possible The woodwork on the fuselage is complete and sheet metal fairings are being made The wings are skinned with 332 plywood over which 1 V2 oz fibershyglass and epoxy has been applied

A full time employee Bob Bell has been hired to assist with the project and the plane will be flying in time to have many hours in the air before it is brought to Oshkosh 82

(Gene Chaae Photo) The woodwork has been completed on the fuselage The two fuselage tanks are installed one under the back seat and the other behind the cabin The 12 gallon oil tank is visible behind the cabin

(Gene Chale Photo) The sheet metal fairings are going into place The lower one houses the fixed tailwheel on Mulligan

(Gene Chale Photo) Fiberglass and epoxy are being applied to the 332 plyshywood-covered wings Each wing panel weighs 200 pounds

COMMAND-AIRE SC3

This 1929 Command-A ire 5C3 NC997E SIN W-136 is being restored by Robert G Lock (EAA 56824 AlC 5186) Reedley College Aero Department 995 N Reed

Ave Reedley CA 93654 One lower wing panel is airshyworthy but the other three panels will have to be built new Robert has been in touch with the planes designer Mr Albert Vollmecke who has been very helpful in reshycalling some details of the aircraft

REPLICA AIR KING UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Mike Huffman (EAA 33696 AlC 5535) Rt 2 Box 1490 Owasso OK 74055 is building a replica of the 1928 NAS Air King The plane is being built for John W Romkey of Burlington IA in memory of his father Glenn J Romkey who was an executive of the NAS company and one of the early aviators of Illinois

Mike has designed this replica using old photos sketches and specifications as a guide Power will be a Curtiss OX-5 and the plane will be as authentic as possible

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5

By Clement H Armstrong Lt Col USAF (Ret) (EAA 5949 AIC 746)

Route 3 Box 46 Rawlings MD 21157

Waco Ten Serial Number 1171 came out of the factory in the fall of 1927 and was delivered to Knapp Flying Service Ypsilanti Michigan the Waco disshytributor for the Michigan area It was sold to Ralph E Lewis of Jackson Michigan who sold it two years later to E W Hewitt Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Reshymaining in that area it went through six successive owners including Richard W Weibley of Harrisburg I purchased it from Mr Weibley in June of 1956 placshying it in storage for restoration at a later time

It was to be several years before any restoration work was begun Retiring in 1973 after nearly 32 years in the US Air Force I purchased a home in the hills of western Maryland With a very large basement plus a 30 x 40 foot barn in the back yard for storage it was an ideal place for the planned work ahead Some reshymodeling and a lot of fixing up took more time than I had expected but in 1974 I began serious restoration work on NC3960 It soon became obvious that the years in storage had taken their toll The hangar in which it was stored suffered a roof collapse under an extremely heavy snowfall in 1962 This had little effect on the Waco but later temporary storage conditions produced much wing damage The worst however was a flash flood which allowed water to collect inside two of the wings This required a lot of wood replacement on the leading edge of the two lower panels

During the restoration process I attempted to keep the aircraft as original as possible The major change was the installation of Bendix 30 x 5 wheels with mechanishycal brakes and a Scott tailwheel to make it safer to operate on the modern airports The Bendix wheels are shown as a factory option in some literature that I

(Photos Courtesy of the Author)

Harold enjoying the luxury of restoring his Waco in the baseshyment of his home

A final look inside the wing before covering

Plumbing the radiator Harolds first flight in a Waco 10 in 40 years

6 JULY 1981

have New tires were obtained from Universal Tire Service Elizabethtown Pennsylvania All fairings floorshyboards and supporting structure were replaced along with a new firewall of stainless steel The covering is Grade A cotton finished with Randolph butyrate dope Color is Colorado Red (very close to the original Waco Vermillion) with the standard silver wings and black cowling MacWhyte stainless steel flying wires were used with new terminal ends New cushions were made and covered with black naugahyde Cockpit coamings are of the same material over the original felt padding The instruments are of the proper era with only the compass and air speed needing any overhaul A vinshytage brass fire extinguisher was contributed by Paul Shank of Derwood Maryland to complete the cockpit details

The OX-5 engine was completely overhauled Pisshyton rings were specially made by Perfect Circle con-

The immaculate OX-5 looks like this after running

All the instruments needed to fly a 1927 machine

Harold hand wraps one of the control cables

Its beginning to look like a plane

Harold Armstrongs smile says it all

sisting of four rings per piston rather than the two wide rings originally used Valve guide and seat reshywork was done by the late Sam Burke of Belleville Pennsylvania who had all the original tools required for this job New valve and intake pull springs were installed and many parts were replaced with nickel as original A new Scintilla magneto and drive adapter was installed as well as stainless steel exhaust manishyfolds

Several pieces of the cockpit cowling were missing and had to be made Others were repaired or replaced if necessary One of those missing was the triangular shaped bottom engine cowl This was made up of soft aluminum with the edge of the bottom cut-out rolled over a wire as the original This section is attached by wire laced over hooks on both edges These are standard boot hooks and I bought the entire stock from a local shoe repair shop to get the ones I needed New rudder and radiator support cables were made using the wrap and solder method Nicopress was not available in 1927

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Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

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Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

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FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

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PUBLICATION OF THE ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC OF THE EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC

PO BOX 229 HALES CORNERS WI 53130 COPYRIGHT 0 1981 EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

JULY 1981 VOLUME 9 NUMBER 7

OFFICERS President Vice-President

W Brad Thomas Jr Jack C Winthrop 301 Dodson Mill Road Route 1 Box 111

Pilot Mountain NC 27041 Allen TX 75002 919368-2875 Home 214727-5649 919368-2291 Office

Secretary Treasurer M C Kelly Viets E E Buck Hilbert 7745 W 183rd St PO Box 145 Stilwell KS 66085 Union IL 60180

913681-2303 Home 815923-4591 913782-6720 Office

DIRECTORS Ronald Fritz Morton W Lester

15401 Sparta Avenue PO Box 3747 Kent City MI 49330 Martinsville VA 24112

616678-5012 703632-4839

Claude L Gray Jr Arthur R Morgan 9635 Sylvia Avenue 3744 North 51 st Blvd

Northridge CA 91324 Milwaukee WI 53216 213349- 1338 414442-3631

Dale A Gustafson John R Turgyan 7724 Shady Hi ll Drive 1530 Kuser Road Indianapol is IN 46274 Trenton NJ 0861 9

317293-4430 609585- 2747

AI Kelch S J Wittman 66 W 622 N Madison Avenue Box 2672

Cedarburg WI 53012 Oshkosh WI 54901 414377-5886 414235-1 265

Robert E Kesel George S York 455 Oakridge Drive 181 Sloboda Ave

Rochester NY 14617 Mansfield OH 44906 716342-3170 419529-4378

ADVISORS Ed Burns Stan Gomoll Gene Morris

1550 Mt Prospect Road 1042 90th Lane NE 27 Chandelle Drive Des Plaines IL 60018 Minneapolis MN 55434 Hampshire IL 60140

3121298-7811 6121784-1172 3121683-3199 John S Copeland Espie M Joyce Jr S H Wes Schmid

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617366-7245 919427~0216 414771-1545

PUBLICATION STAFF

PUBLISHER Paul H Poberezny President

Experimental Aircraft Association

EDITOR ASSOC EDITOR Gene R Chase George A Hardie Jr

FRONT COVER BACK COVER 1927 Waco 10 recently restored by J-4 Travel Air at the New London OH Clement H Armstrong Rawlings MD airport ci rca 1929 Note the N added See story on page 6 above the C5438 number on the rudshy

(Photo Courtesy of der It may have been a cont ract air Clement H Armstrong) mail plane

(Photo Courtesy of Dale Wolford )

TABLE OF CONTENTS Straight and Level by Brad Thomas 2 NC News by Gene Chase 4 Members Projects 5 Waco Ten NC3960 by Clement H Armstrong 6 Progress Report On EAAs Ford Trimotor 9 AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 Fly-In

by Brad Thomas 10 Forum Tent NO4 13 Drying Up The Lycoming 0-435 $$$ $

by Ed Skeeter Carlson 13 We Call Her Bobbi Tig Trout

by Glenn Buffington 14 Appeal by Glenn B uffing ton 17 Annual Michigan Volunteers Weekend At The

Museum 18 Book Review 19 Letters 20 Calendar Of Events 21

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Editorial Policy Readers are encouraged to submit stories and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor Material should be sent to Gene R Chase Editor The VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Associate Editorships are assigned to those writers who submit five or more articles which are published in THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE during the current year Associates receive a bound volume of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE and a free one-year membership in the Division for their effort

THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE (ISSN 0091-6943) is owned exclusively by EAA AntiquelClassic Division Inc and is published monthly at Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 Second Class Postage paid at Hales Corners Post Office Hales Corners Wisconsin 53130 and additional mailing offices Memshybership rates for EAA AntiqueClassic Division Inc are $1400 for current EAA members per 12 month period of which $1000 is for the publication of THE VINTAGE AIRPLANE Membership is open to all who are interested in aviation

ADVERTISING - AntiquelClassic Division does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through our advertising We invite constructive criticism and welcome any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising so that corrective measures can be taken

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~ewsU Compiel by Gene Chase

BRADLEY AIR MUSEUM UPDATE

On October 3 1979 a tornado struck this museum causing extensive damage to 58 aircraft plus engines and other related exhibits This facility located at Bradley Field in Connecticut is getting back on its feet Planes that escaped serious damage are on disshyplay in a temporary location on Rt 75 in Windsor Locks A tract of 43 acres has been leased for 50 years and the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Associashytion Inc is making plans to erect a 30000 to 35000 square foot building on the site which is on the west side of Bradley International Airport in the towns of East Granby Suffolk and Windsor Locks from the Luscombe Association News edited by John Bergeson Mt Pleasant MI

EC776 SLOSHING COMPOUND

A letter received at EAA Headquarters outlines some precautions to be taken when using this particular sealant ATTN Chuck Larsen

Editor - EAA Designee Newsletter The article on fuel tanks in the April Designee

Newsletter recommending the use of EC776 sloshing compound should have included a hazard warning and safety precautions

EC776 is an ideal sealant for tanks but extreme caushytion must be used to prevent a violent explosion if the fumes from the EC776 are ignited One man was killed and a second one was injured seriously in an accident in this area while sloshing a tank with EC776

A fuel tank filled with EC776 fumes plus the fumes in the air around the tank creates one of the most powerful explosive conditions that you will encounter Anything that increases the vapors such as hot weather or large amounts of chemicals usually increases the risk of igniting the vapors

The following is a recommended list of precautions to be taken

1 Do Not slosh tank indoors outside only and in the shade if the sun is hot

2 No Smoking from any distance that fumes can be detected

3 No sparks fire electric motors or switches of any type are permitted

4 Ground wire for static ground is an added preshycaution A static spark from simply pouring the EC776 into the tank is possible Ground both the tank and the supply can of sealant

5 Observe all precautions until the sealant solidifies Jack Blackwell Designee 763 Chapters 32 and 581 St Louis Missouri

ANTIQUE AVIATION TOUR OF ENGLAND

George and Betty Michael of the PBS program Anshytiques will conduct a tour early this fall of the great English aviation museums - Biggin Hill DeHaviliand Mosquito Museum the Shuttleworth Collection Imshyperial War Museum Spitfire Museum etc Dates are September 19 to October 4 1981 A free brochure is available from Great Journeys Ltd PO Box 707 Annapolis MD 21403 Phone 301268-1860

ANTIQUECLASSIC BUILDING PROJECT

AntiqueClassic Division Chapter One known as FSAACA (Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association) is considering the sponsorship of a permashynent building at the Sun N Fun site at Lakeland FL The group has in mind a 40 x 50 log cabin design which would provide a headquarters operation for them during the annual fly-in Throughout the year it would serve as a storage building and a place for chapters and directors meetings

More will be forthcoming on this ambitious project which will be funded by donations

ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO STEAL AN ANTIQUE

As reported in the Funk Flyers Newsletter edited by G Dale Beach Sacramento CA someone tried to steal a Funk (N1611N) owned by Harold Emmerich Belleville IL His plane located in a hangar on his farm is usually pretty secure Harold had to be away one day recently and when he returned that afternoon he noticed his airplane sitting on the north end of his runway Someone had broken into the bird got it out of the hangar pried the ignition switch out of the panel got it started and taxied out Fortunately they forgot to turn on the fuel and the engine quit before they got airborne Then they must have been scared off and Harold now has his plane back in the hangar

ANTIQUE INSTRUMENT RESTORATION

For those who may have missed the notice in SPORT A VIATION we feel it is worthy of being repeated here

Restorers of antique and classic aircraft who find themselves in need of instrument refacing andor reshybuilding should contact Ohio Valley Speedometer Supshyply 7304 Greenlawn Rd Louisville KY 40222 Phone (toll free) 1-800-626-1588 The company uses a patented photochemical and typesetting process that not only makes the instruments look new again but provides protection when there is exposure to sun humidity heat and cold

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This section of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE is dedshyicated to members and their aircraft projects We welshycome photos along with descriptions and the projects can be either completed or underway Send material to the editor at the address shown on page 3 of this issue

THE YOUNKINS MR MULLIGAN AntiqueClassic Division members Bob and Jim Younkin apologized

while their Mister Mulligan replica project was being photographed on 52181 it appeared that little progress had been made since the photo was taken which appeared on page 27 of the August 1980 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE But anyone who has built from scratch a plane the size of Mulligan knows how time-consuming it can be to make such components as the fuel and oil tanks control system and the myriad of other detail work which must be completed before the craft can be covered

Bob and Jim are brothers living in Fayetteville Arkansas and are going to great pains to make this replica as authentic as possible The woodwork on the fuselage is complete and sheet metal fairings are being made The wings are skinned with 332 plywood over which 1 V2 oz fibershyglass and epoxy has been applied

A full time employee Bob Bell has been hired to assist with the project and the plane will be flying in time to have many hours in the air before it is brought to Oshkosh 82

(Gene Chaae Photo) The woodwork has been completed on the fuselage The two fuselage tanks are installed one under the back seat and the other behind the cabin The 12 gallon oil tank is visible behind the cabin

(Gene Chale Photo) The sheet metal fairings are going into place The lower one houses the fixed tailwheel on Mulligan

(Gene Chale Photo) Fiberglass and epoxy are being applied to the 332 plyshywood-covered wings Each wing panel weighs 200 pounds

COMMAND-AIRE SC3

This 1929 Command-A ire 5C3 NC997E SIN W-136 is being restored by Robert G Lock (EAA 56824 AlC 5186) Reedley College Aero Department 995 N Reed

Ave Reedley CA 93654 One lower wing panel is airshyworthy but the other three panels will have to be built new Robert has been in touch with the planes designer Mr Albert Vollmecke who has been very helpful in reshycalling some details of the aircraft

REPLICA AIR KING UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Mike Huffman (EAA 33696 AlC 5535) Rt 2 Box 1490 Owasso OK 74055 is building a replica of the 1928 NAS Air King The plane is being built for John W Romkey of Burlington IA in memory of his father Glenn J Romkey who was an executive of the NAS company and one of the early aviators of Illinois

Mike has designed this replica using old photos sketches and specifications as a guide Power will be a Curtiss OX-5 and the plane will be as authentic as possible

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By Clement H Armstrong Lt Col USAF (Ret) (EAA 5949 AIC 746)

Route 3 Box 46 Rawlings MD 21157

Waco Ten Serial Number 1171 came out of the factory in the fall of 1927 and was delivered to Knapp Flying Service Ypsilanti Michigan the Waco disshytributor for the Michigan area It was sold to Ralph E Lewis of Jackson Michigan who sold it two years later to E W Hewitt Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Reshymaining in that area it went through six successive owners including Richard W Weibley of Harrisburg I purchased it from Mr Weibley in June of 1956 placshying it in storage for restoration at a later time

It was to be several years before any restoration work was begun Retiring in 1973 after nearly 32 years in the US Air Force I purchased a home in the hills of western Maryland With a very large basement plus a 30 x 40 foot barn in the back yard for storage it was an ideal place for the planned work ahead Some reshymodeling and a lot of fixing up took more time than I had expected but in 1974 I began serious restoration work on NC3960 It soon became obvious that the years in storage had taken their toll The hangar in which it was stored suffered a roof collapse under an extremely heavy snowfall in 1962 This had little effect on the Waco but later temporary storage conditions produced much wing damage The worst however was a flash flood which allowed water to collect inside two of the wings This required a lot of wood replacement on the leading edge of the two lower panels

During the restoration process I attempted to keep the aircraft as original as possible The major change was the installation of Bendix 30 x 5 wheels with mechanishycal brakes and a Scott tailwheel to make it safer to operate on the modern airports The Bendix wheels are shown as a factory option in some literature that I

(Photos Courtesy of the Author)

Harold enjoying the luxury of restoring his Waco in the baseshyment of his home

A final look inside the wing before covering

Plumbing the radiator Harolds first flight in a Waco 10 in 40 years

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have New tires were obtained from Universal Tire Service Elizabethtown Pennsylvania All fairings floorshyboards and supporting structure were replaced along with a new firewall of stainless steel The covering is Grade A cotton finished with Randolph butyrate dope Color is Colorado Red (very close to the original Waco Vermillion) with the standard silver wings and black cowling MacWhyte stainless steel flying wires were used with new terminal ends New cushions were made and covered with black naugahyde Cockpit coamings are of the same material over the original felt padding The instruments are of the proper era with only the compass and air speed needing any overhaul A vinshytage brass fire extinguisher was contributed by Paul Shank of Derwood Maryland to complete the cockpit details

The OX-5 engine was completely overhauled Pisshyton rings were specially made by Perfect Circle con-

The immaculate OX-5 looks like this after running

All the instruments needed to fly a 1927 machine

Harold hand wraps one of the control cables

Its beginning to look like a plane

Harold Armstrongs smile says it all

sisting of four rings per piston rather than the two wide rings originally used Valve guide and seat reshywork was done by the late Sam Burke of Belleville Pennsylvania who had all the original tools required for this job New valve and intake pull springs were installed and many parts were replaced with nickel as original A new Scintilla magneto and drive adapter was installed as well as stainless steel exhaust manishyfolds

Several pieces of the cockpit cowling were missing and had to be made Others were repaired or replaced if necessary One of those missing was the triangular shaped bottom engine cowl This was made up of soft aluminum with the edge of the bottom cut-out rolled over a wire as the original This section is attached by wire laced over hooks on both edges These are standard boot hooks and I bought the entire stock from a local shoe repair shop to get the ones I needed New rudder and radiator support cables were made using the wrap and solder method Nicopress was not available in 1927

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Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

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Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

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~ewsU Compiel by Gene Chase

BRADLEY AIR MUSEUM UPDATE

On October 3 1979 a tornado struck this museum causing extensive damage to 58 aircraft plus engines and other related exhibits This facility located at Bradley Field in Connecticut is getting back on its feet Planes that escaped serious damage are on disshyplay in a temporary location on Rt 75 in Windsor Locks A tract of 43 acres has been leased for 50 years and the Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Associashytion Inc is making plans to erect a 30000 to 35000 square foot building on the site which is on the west side of Bradley International Airport in the towns of East Granby Suffolk and Windsor Locks from the Luscombe Association News edited by John Bergeson Mt Pleasant MI

EC776 SLOSHING COMPOUND

A letter received at EAA Headquarters outlines some precautions to be taken when using this particular sealant ATTN Chuck Larsen

Editor - EAA Designee Newsletter The article on fuel tanks in the April Designee

Newsletter recommending the use of EC776 sloshing compound should have included a hazard warning and safety precautions

EC776 is an ideal sealant for tanks but extreme caushytion must be used to prevent a violent explosion if the fumes from the EC776 are ignited One man was killed and a second one was injured seriously in an accident in this area while sloshing a tank with EC776

A fuel tank filled with EC776 fumes plus the fumes in the air around the tank creates one of the most powerful explosive conditions that you will encounter Anything that increases the vapors such as hot weather or large amounts of chemicals usually increases the risk of igniting the vapors

The following is a recommended list of precautions to be taken

1 Do Not slosh tank indoors outside only and in the shade if the sun is hot

2 No Smoking from any distance that fumes can be detected

3 No sparks fire electric motors or switches of any type are permitted

4 Ground wire for static ground is an added preshycaution A static spark from simply pouring the EC776 into the tank is possible Ground both the tank and the supply can of sealant

5 Observe all precautions until the sealant solidifies Jack Blackwell Designee 763 Chapters 32 and 581 St Louis Missouri

ANTIQUE AVIATION TOUR OF ENGLAND

George and Betty Michael of the PBS program Anshytiques will conduct a tour early this fall of the great English aviation museums - Biggin Hill DeHaviliand Mosquito Museum the Shuttleworth Collection Imshyperial War Museum Spitfire Museum etc Dates are September 19 to October 4 1981 A free brochure is available from Great Journeys Ltd PO Box 707 Annapolis MD 21403 Phone 301268-1860

ANTIQUECLASSIC BUILDING PROJECT

AntiqueClassic Division Chapter One known as FSAACA (Florida Sport Aviation Antique and Classic Association) is considering the sponsorship of a permashynent building at the Sun N Fun site at Lakeland FL The group has in mind a 40 x 50 log cabin design which would provide a headquarters operation for them during the annual fly-in Throughout the year it would serve as a storage building and a place for chapters and directors meetings

More will be forthcoming on this ambitious project which will be funded by donations

ABORTIVE ATTEMPT TO STEAL AN ANTIQUE

As reported in the Funk Flyers Newsletter edited by G Dale Beach Sacramento CA someone tried to steal a Funk (N1611N) owned by Harold Emmerich Belleville IL His plane located in a hangar on his farm is usually pretty secure Harold had to be away one day recently and when he returned that afternoon he noticed his airplane sitting on the north end of his runway Someone had broken into the bird got it out of the hangar pried the ignition switch out of the panel got it started and taxied out Fortunately they forgot to turn on the fuel and the engine quit before they got airborne Then they must have been scared off and Harold now has his plane back in the hangar

ANTIQUE INSTRUMENT RESTORATION

For those who may have missed the notice in SPORT A VIATION we feel it is worthy of being repeated here

Restorers of antique and classic aircraft who find themselves in need of instrument refacing andor reshybuilding should contact Ohio Valley Speedometer Supshyply 7304 Greenlawn Rd Louisville KY 40222 Phone (toll free) 1-800-626-1588 The company uses a patented photochemical and typesetting process that not only makes the instruments look new again but provides protection when there is exposure to sun humidity heat and cold

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This section of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE is dedshyicated to members and their aircraft projects We welshycome photos along with descriptions and the projects can be either completed or underway Send material to the editor at the address shown on page 3 of this issue

THE YOUNKINS MR MULLIGAN AntiqueClassic Division members Bob and Jim Younkin apologized

while their Mister Mulligan replica project was being photographed on 52181 it appeared that little progress had been made since the photo was taken which appeared on page 27 of the August 1980 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE But anyone who has built from scratch a plane the size of Mulligan knows how time-consuming it can be to make such components as the fuel and oil tanks control system and the myriad of other detail work which must be completed before the craft can be covered

Bob and Jim are brothers living in Fayetteville Arkansas and are going to great pains to make this replica as authentic as possible The woodwork on the fuselage is complete and sheet metal fairings are being made The wings are skinned with 332 plywood over which 1 V2 oz fibershyglass and epoxy has been applied

A full time employee Bob Bell has been hired to assist with the project and the plane will be flying in time to have many hours in the air before it is brought to Oshkosh 82

(Gene Chaae Photo) The woodwork has been completed on the fuselage The two fuselage tanks are installed one under the back seat and the other behind the cabin The 12 gallon oil tank is visible behind the cabin

(Gene Chale Photo) The sheet metal fairings are going into place The lower one houses the fixed tailwheel on Mulligan

(Gene Chale Photo) Fiberglass and epoxy are being applied to the 332 plyshywood-covered wings Each wing panel weighs 200 pounds

COMMAND-AIRE SC3

This 1929 Command-A ire 5C3 NC997E SIN W-136 is being restored by Robert G Lock (EAA 56824 AlC 5186) Reedley College Aero Department 995 N Reed

Ave Reedley CA 93654 One lower wing panel is airshyworthy but the other three panels will have to be built new Robert has been in touch with the planes designer Mr Albert Vollmecke who has been very helpful in reshycalling some details of the aircraft

REPLICA AIR KING UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Mike Huffman (EAA 33696 AlC 5535) Rt 2 Box 1490 Owasso OK 74055 is building a replica of the 1928 NAS Air King The plane is being built for John W Romkey of Burlington IA in memory of his father Glenn J Romkey who was an executive of the NAS company and one of the early aviators of Illinois

Mike has designed this replica using old photos sketches and specifications as a guide Power will be a Curtiss OX-5 and the plane will be as authentic as possible

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By Clement H Armstrong Lt Col USAF (Ret) (EAA 5949 AIC 746)

Route 3 Box 46 Rawlings MD 21157

Waco Ten Serial Number 1171 came out of the factory in the fall of 1927 and was delivered to Knapp Flying Service Ypsilanti Michigan the Waco disshytributor for the Michigan area It was sold to Ralph E Lewis of Jackson Michigan who sold it two years later to E W Hewitt Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Reshymaining in that area it went through six successive owners including Richard W Weibley of Harrisburg I purchased it from Mr Weibley in June of 1956 placshying it in storage for restoration at a later time

It was to be several years before any restoration work was begun Retiring in 1973 after nearly 32 years in the US Air Force I purchased a home in the hills of western Maryland With a very large basement plus a 30 x 40 foot barn in the back yard for storage it was an ideal place for the planned work ahead Some reshymodeling and a lot of fixing up took more time than I had expected but in 1974 I began serious restoration work on NC3960 It soon became obvious that the years in storage had taken their toll The hangar in which it was stored suffered a roof collapse under an extremely heavy snowfall in 1962 This had little effect on the Waco but later temporary storage conditions produced much wing damage The worst however was a flash flood which allowed water to collect inside two of the wings This required a lot of wood replacement on the leading edge of the two lower panels

During the restoration process I attempted to keep the aircraft as original as possible The major change was the installation of Bendix 30 x 5 wheels with mechanishycal brakes and a Scott tailwheel to make it safer to operate on the modern airports The Bendix wheels are shown as a factory option in some literature that I

(Photos Courtesy of the Author)

Harold enjoying the luxury of restoring his Waco in the baseshyment of his home

A final look inside the wing before covering

Plumbing the radiator Harolds first flight in a Waco 10 in 40 years

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have New tires were obtained from Universal Tire Service Elizabethtown Pennsylvania All fairings floorshyboards and supporting structure were replaced along with a new firewall of stainless steel The covering is Grade A cotton finished with Randolph butyrate dope Color is Colorado Red (very close to the original Waco Vermillion) with the standard silver wings and black cowling MacWhyte stainless steel flying wires were used with new terminal ends New cushions were made and covered with black naugahyde Cockpit coamings are of the same material over the original felt padding The instruments are of the proper era with only the compass and air speed needing any overhaul A vinshytage brass fire extinguisher was contributed by Paul Shank of Derwood Maryland to complete the cockpit details

The OX-5 engine was completely overhauled Pisshyton rings were specially made by Perfect Circle con-

The immaculate OX-5 looks like this after running

All the instruments needed to fly a 1927 machine

Harold hand wraps one of the control cables

Its beginning to look like a plane

Harold Armstrongs smile says it all

sisting of four rings per piston rather than the two wide rings originally used Valve guide and seat reshywork was done by the late Sam Burke of Belleville Pennsylvania who had all the original tools required for this job New valve and intake pull springs were installed and many parts were replaced with nickel as original A new Scintilla magneto and drive adapter was installed as well as stainless steel exhaust manishyfolds

Several pieces of the cockpit cowling were missing and had to be made Others were repaired or replaced if necessary One of those missing was the triangular shaped bottom engine cowl This was made up of soft aluminum with the edge of the bottom cut-out rolled over a wire as the original This section is attached by wire laced over hooks on both edges These are standard boot hooks and I bought the entire stock from a local shoe repair shop to get the ones I needed New rudder and radiator support cables were made using the wrap and solder method Nicopress was not available in 1927

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Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

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Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

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This section of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE is dedshyicated to members and their aircraft projects We welshycome photos along with descriptions and the projects can be either completed or underway Send material to the editor at the address shown on page 3 of this issue

THE YOUNKINS MR MULLIGAN AntiqueClassic Division members Bob and Jim Younkin apologized

while their Mister Mulligan replica project was being photographed on 52181 it appeared that little progress had been made since the photo was taken which appeared on page 27 of the August 1980 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE But anyone who has built from scratch a plane the size of Mulligan knows how time-consuming it can be to make such components as the fuel and oil tanks control system and the myriad of other detail work which must be completed before the craft can be covered

Bob and Jim are brothers living in Fayetteville Arkansas and are going to great pains to make this replica as authentic as possible The woodwork on the fuselage is complete and sheet metal fairings are being made The wings are skinned with 332 plywood over which 1 V2 oz fibershyglass and epoxy has been applied

A full time employee Bob Bell has been hired to assist with the project and the plane will be flying in time to have many hours in the air before it is brought to Oshkosh 82

(Gene Chaae Photo) The woodwork has been completed on the fuselage The two fuselage tanks are installed one under the back seat and the other behind the cabin The 12 gallon oil tank is visible behind the cabin

(Gene Chale Photo) The sheet metal fairings are going into place The lower one houses the fixed tailwheel on Mulligan

(Gene Chale Photo) Fiberglass and epoxy are being applied to the 332 plyshywood-covered wings Each wing panel weighs 200 pounds

COMMAND-AIRE SC3

This 1929 Command-A ire 5C3 NC997E SIN W-136 is being restored by Robert G Lock (EAA 56824 AlC 5186) Reedley College Aero Department 995 N Reed

Ave Reedley CA 93654 One lower wing panel is airshyworthy but the other three panels will have to be built new Robert has been in touch with the planes designer Mr Albert Vollmecke who has been very helpful in reshycalling some details of the aircraft

REPLICA AIR KING UNDER CONSTRUCTION

Mike Huffman (EAA 33696 AlC 5535) Rt 2 Box 1490 Owasso OK 74055 is building a replica of the 1928 NAS Air King The plane is being built for John W Romkey of Burlington IA in memory of his father Glenn J Romkey who was an executive of the NAS company and one of the early aviators of Illinois

Mike has designed this replica using old photos sketches and specifications as a guide Power will be a Curtiss OX-5 and the plane will be as authentic as possible

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By Clement H Armstrong Lt Col USAF (Ret) (EAA 5949 AIC 746)

Route 3 Box 46 Rawlings MD 21157

Waco Ten Serial Number 1171 came out of the factory in the fall of 1927 and was delivered to Knapp Flying Service Ypsilanti Michigan the Waco disshytributor for the Michigan area It was sold to Ralph E Lewis of Jackson Michigan who sold it two years later to E W Hewitt Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Reshymaining in that area it went through six successive owners including Richard W Weibley of Harrisburg I purchased it from Mr Weibley in June of 1956 placshying it in storage for restoration at a later time

It was to be several years before any restoration work was begun Retiring in 1973 after nearly 32 years in the US Air Force I purchased a home in the hills of western Maryland With a very large basement plus a 30 x 40 foot barn in the back yard for storage it was an ideal place for the planned work ahead Some reshymodeling and a lot of fixing up took more time than I had expected but in 1974 I began serious restoration work on NC3960 It soon became obvious that the years in storage had taken their toll The hangar in which it was stored suffered a roof collapse under an extremely heavy snowfall in 1962 This had little effect on the Waco but later temporary storage conditions produced much wing damage The worst however was a flash flood which allowed water to collect inside two of the wings This required a lot of wood replacement on the leading edge of the two lower panels

During the restoration process I attempted to keep the aircraft as original as possible The major change was the installation of Bendix 30 x 5 wheels with mechanishycal brakes and a Scott tailwheel to make it safer to operate on the modern airports The Bendix wheels are shown as a factory option in some literature that I

(Photos Courtesy of the Author)

Harold enjoying the luxury of restoring his Waco in the baseshyment of his home

A final look inside the wing before covering

Plumbing the radiator Harolds first flight in a Waco 10 in 40 years

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have New tires were obtained from Universal Tire Service Elizabethtown Pennsylvania All fairings floorshyboards and supporting structure were replaced along with a new firewall of stainless steel The covering is Grade A cotton finished with Randolph butyrate dope Color is Colorado Red (very close to the original Waco Vermillion) with the standard silver wings and black cowling MacWhyte stainless steel flying wires were used with new terminal ends New cushions were made and covered with black naugahyde Cockpit coamings are of the same material over the original felt padding The instruments are of the proper era with only the compass and air speed needing any overhaul A vinshytage brass fire extinguisher was contributed by Paul Shank of Derwood Maryland to complete the cockpit details

The OX-5 engine was completely overhauled Pisshyton rings were specially made by Perfect Circle con-

The immaculate OX-5 looks like this after running

All the instruments needed to fly a 1927 machine

Harold hand wraps one of the control cables

Its beginning to look like a plane

Harold Armstrongs smile says it all

sisting of four rings per piston rather than the two wide rings originally used Valve guide and seat reshywork was done by the late Sam Burke of Belleville Pennsylvania who had all the original tools required for this job New valve and intake pull springs were installed and many parts were replaced with nickel as original A new Scintilla magneto and drive adapter was installed as well as stainless steel exhaust manishyfolds

Several pieces of the cockpit cowling were missing and had to be made Others were repaired or replaced if necessary One of those missing was the triangular shaped bottom engine cowl This was made up of soft aluminum with the edge of the bottom cut-out rolled over a wire as the original This section is attached by wire laced over hooks on both edges These are standard boot hooks and I bought the entire stock from a local shoe repair shop to get the ones I needed New rudder and radiator support cables were made using the wrap and solder method Nicopress was not available in 1927

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Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

6 JULY 1961

Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

By Clement H Armstrong Lt Col USAF (Ret) (EAA 5949 AIC 746)

Route 3 Box 46 Rawlings MD 21157

Waco Ten Serial Number 1171 came out of the factory in the fall of 1927 and was delivered to Knapp Flying Service Ypsilanti Michigan the Waco disshytributor for the Michigan area It was sold to Ralph E Lewis of Jackson Michigan who sold it two years later to E W Hewitt Hollidaysburg Pennsylvania Reshymaining in that area it went through six successive owners including Richard W Weibley of Harrisburg I purchased it from Mr Weibley in June of 1956 placshying it in storage for restoration at a later time

It was to be several years before any restoration work was begun Retiring in 1973 after nearly 32 years in the US Air Force I purchased a home in the hills of western Maryland With a very large basement plus a 30 x 40 foot barn in the back yard for storage it was an ideal place for the planned work ahead Some reshymodeling and a lot of fixing up took more time than I had expected but in 1974 I began serious restoration work on NC3960 It soon became obvious that the years in storage had taken their toll The hangar in which it was stored suffered a roof collapse under an extremely heavy snowfall in 1962 This had little effect on the Waco but later temporary storage conditions produced much wing damage The worst however was a flash flood which allowed water to collect inside two of the wings This required a lot of wood replacement on the leading edge of the two lower panels

During the restoration process I attempted to keep the aircraft as original as possible The major change was the installation of Bendix 30 x 5 wheels with mechanishycal brakes and a Scott tailwheel to make it safer to operate on the modern airports The Bendix wheels are shown as a factory option in some literature that I

(Photos Courtesy of the Author)

Harold enjoying the luxury of restoring his Waco in the baseshyment of his home

A final look inside the wing before covering

Plumbing the radiator Harolds first flight in a Waco 10 in 40 years

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have New tires were obtained from Universal Tire Service Elizabethtown Pennsylvania All fairings floorshyboards and supporting structure were replaced along with a new firewall of stainless steel The covering is Grade A cotton finished with Randolph butyrate dope Color is Colorado Red (very close to the original Waco Vermillion) with the standard silver wings and black cowling MacWhyte stainless steel flying wires were used with new terminal ends New cushions were made and covered with black naugahyde Cockpit coamings are of the same material over the original felt padding The instruments are of the proper era with only the compass and air speed needing any overhaul A vinshytage brass fire extinguisher was contributed by Paul Shank of Derwood Maryland to complete the cockpit details

The OX-5 engine was completely overhauled Pisshyton rings were specially made by Perfect Circle con-

The immaculate OX-5 looks like this after running

All the instruments needed to fly a 1927 machine

Harold hand wraps one of the control cables

Its beginning to look like a plane

Harold Armstrongs smile says it all

sisting of four rings per piston rather than the two wide rings originally used Valve guide and seat reshywork was done by the late Sam Burke of Belleville Pennsylvania who had all the original tools required for this job New valve and intake pull springs were installed and many parts were replaced with nickel as original A new Scintilla magneto and drive adapter was installed as well as stainless steel exhaust manishyfolds

Several pieces of the cockpit cowling were missing and had to be made Others were repaired or replaced if necessary One of those missing was the triangular shaped bottom engine cowl This was made up of soft aluminum with the edge of the bottom cut-out rolled over a wire as the original This section is attached by wire laced over hooks on both edges These are standard boot hooks and I bought the entire stock from a local shoe repair shop to get the ones I needed New rudder and radiator support cables were made using the wrap and solder method Nicopress was not available in 1927

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Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

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Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

have New tires were obtained from Universal Tire Service Elizabethtown Pennsylvania All fairings floorshyboards and supporting structure were replaced along with a new firewall of stainless steel The covering is Grade A cotton finished with Randolph butyrate dope Color is Colorado Red (very close to the original Waco Vermillion) with the standard silver wings and black cowling MacWhyte stainless steel flying wires were used with new terminal ends New cushions were made and covered with black naugahyde Cockpit coamings are of the same material over the original felt padding The instruments are of the proper era with only the compass and air speed needing any overhaul A vinshytage brass fire extinguisher was contributed by Paul Shank of Derwood Maryland to complete the cockpit details

The OX-5 engine was completely overhauled Pisshyton rings were specially made by Perfect Circle con-

The immaculate OX-5 looks like this after running

All the instruments needed to fly a 1927 machine

Harold hand wraps one of the control cables

Its beginning to look like a plane

Harold Armstrongs smile says it all

sisting of four rings per piston rather than the two wide rings originally used Valve guide and seat reshywork was done by the late Sam Burke of Belleville Pennsylvania who had all the original tools required for this job New valve and intake pull springs were installed and many parts were replaced with nickel as original A new Scintilla magneto and drive adapter was installed as well as stainless steel exhaust manishyfolds

Several pieces of the cockpit cowling were missing and had to be made Others were repaired or replaced if necessary One of those missing was the triangular shaped bottom engine cowl This was made up of soft aluminum with the edge of the bottom cut-out rolled over a wire as the original This section is attached by wire laced over hooks on both edges These are standard boot hooks and I bought the entire stock from a local shoe repair shop to get the ones I needed New rudder and radiator support cables were made using the wrap and solder method Nicopress was not available in 1927

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Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

6 JULY 1961

Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

Exposed screws and cowling hardware are of stainless steel wherever possible and brass safety wire was used on all turnbuckles

The engine started on the first pull (after changing an incorrectly wired ignition switch) In mid April 1981 NC3960 was moved to Miller Field a private grass strip near Keyser West Virginia where I had previously built a hangar There it was rigged and test flown Since it had never been issued a permashynent airworthiness certificate I had to arrange to have it inspected by the FAA This was finally done on April 28 and after another official flight we had a celebration party at the hangar for many of our friends

Because of weather and my work schedule we were able to get only forty minutes flying time on the Waco before taking it to Burlington North Carolina With my son Bob in the front cockpit we departed at 0630 Saturday May 2 After an extended stop at Bridgeshywater Virginia to thaw out and fuel up we arrived in Burlington at 1030 Crossing the mountains north of Lynchburg Virginia the temperature at flight altishytude was 28 degrees fahrenheit which in an open cockshypit airplane is cold

At the EAA AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 fly-in we were honored by receiving the Grand Champion Trophy as well as television coverage by one of the Greensshyboro stations It was quite a memorable weekend The trip back home was very enjoyable and a lot warmer

On May 16 and 17 we attended the AAA Potomac Antique Aero Squadron fly-in at Horn Point Aeroshydrome Cambridge Maryland where we received three more trophies plus a case of oil The latter award was a bit ironic since a broken oil pressure line necessishytated a forced landing at Annapolis Maryland (Lee Field) on the way home Thanks to a restrictor fitting which I installed oil pressure was maintained howshyever we did lose about two gallons of oil which reshysulted in a very messy airplane After temporary reshypair and clean-up was accomplished the remainder of

(Photo by Ray Bottom) Bob Armstrong and his father Clement H Armstrong pose proudly beside their Waco 10 at Burlington NC where it was named the Grand Champion Antique on 5281

6 JULY 1961

Harolds son Bob Armstrong pulls the prop through

First run-up of the newly restored OX-5

the flight home was routine I have since obtained a flex line which will be installed before another crossshycountry flight is made

Forty years had passed since I last flew a Waco 10 If my memory is correct 3960 handles normally It is tail heavy especially with three persons aboard Takeshyoff roll is under 300 feet the landing roll a bit longer There isnt much inherent stability and must be flown all the time

I will wind this up with a word of thanks and apshypreciation to those whose help and understanding made the task easier First to my wife Martha who sewed the wing covers and helped in many other ways and to my son Robert who did a lot of paint stripping sandshying varnishing rib stitching and doping He has reshycently soloed the Waco and flies it very well Finally to Bill Pancake the IA who monitored my work and helped with some of the more difficult jobs such as making the Bendix wheel adapters

When I see 3960 sitting in the hangar or watch as Bob takes it around the field I know that it was worth all the time effort and money the restoration required In fact we have already begun working on the next project

PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9

ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

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PROGRESS REPORT ON EAAS FORDTRIMOTOR

These photos were taken by Paul Poberezny Chairshyman of the Board of Trustees EAA Aviation Foundashytion while on an inspection visit to Kal-Aero at Kalashymazoo Michigan The intricate structure of the pilots section of the fuselage is now ready for skinning Bill Chomo Director of Maintenance and Restoration reshycently acquired sufficient corrugated aluminum needed to complete the restoration

Additional funds are needed to carry forward this

project A donors package is offered to contributors of $1000 or more The package consists of a certificate and a 60 page booklet A Ford in EAAs Future This 8h x 11 publication presents a history of the Ford Trimotors and includes specific information on EAAs Model 4-AT-E Serial Number 4-AT-69 NC8407

Contributions should be sent to SAVE THE FORD FUND EAA Aviation Foundation Inc PO Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

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did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

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ANTIQUECLASSIC CHAPTER 3 FLY-IN

By Brad Thomas President

AntiqueClassic Division (Photos by Ray Bottom)

As the winter cold subsides and the warmer weather drifts northward from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caroshylinas we begin to get that fly-in fever Some of us had attended the annual Sun N Fun Fly-In during th~ middle of March and many of us returned home to low temperatures as we did to thirteen inches of wet snow in northwest North Carolina Spring had not yet arshyrived In the old days Chapter 3 held spring fly-ins at various airports in our area but always on the first weekend in May Our fall fly-ins began in earnest at Gastonia North Carolina later moved to Santee South Carolina and presently to Camden We have for several years chosen Burlington North Carolina as a suitable site for our spring fly-ins The fine people in this censhytral North Carolina city have been excellent hosts to our Chapter and have welcomed us with their hospitality and facilities

Clement H Armstrong accepts the Grand Champion Antique Award from Susan Trogden for his 1927 Waco 10

Chapter 3 scheduled its spring fly-in for May 1-3 1981 at Burlington and it was a most successful event for antiques classics homebuilts warbirds ultralights and visitors Since it is a weekend fly-in many of our chapter members and guests schedule their arrival for Friday afternoon and enjoy the relaxed evening of entertainment By noon Friday the parking of arrivals began and by 7 pm over forty-five show planes had been tied down Our lodging host this year was the Ramada Inn and our transportation system moved the guests to the motel to check-in and prepare for the evenings activities

Following refreshments in our chapter hospitality room and dinner at various fine restaurants in the area we were treated to antique films by hosts Ray Bottom Jr and Morton Lester Over 125 seats were occupied during the various film reviews that lasted until about

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1 am Old aviation films documentary films of the 30s and WWII similar to those shown during the Oshkosh International Convention highlighted the evening

The morning fog burned off early Saturday and beshyfore noon traffic began to look like the Oshkosh arshyrival pattern By mid-afternoon 192 aircraft had arshyrived Show aircraft from Canada to Florida had arshyrived from the east coast and from our neighboring states of Tennessee Kentucky and West Virginia With a brisk cross wind and temperatures in the low seventies our fly-bys were directed throughout the day by safety and fly-by chairman Dwight Cross

Chapter 3 has always been noted for a relaxed-type fly-in as our origin consisted of only antiques which we flew for two to three hundred miles to the fly-ins On this day groups were clustered around new arrivals greeting friends they had not seen for a year or so or walking the lines of show aircraft chatting with the pilots often enviously hoping to someday restore or own one of the show planes exhibited Picture if you will some of these a Cassutt with a hand-formed alumi-

Two diverse aircraft make a low pass at the Chapter 3 FlyshyIn Jeff Michaels SNJ and the Pitts piloted by Dwight Cross Jr of Huntersville NC Jeff is from Lexington NC

Immaculate Luscombe 8E owned by the Bob Beitel family of Charlotte NC and being flown on this day by Gregg Beitel currently living in Tennessee

num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

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Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

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num cowl and an excellent sample of workmanship a Knight Twister for mean speed a Christen Eagle in the Eagle paint scheme warbirds from primary trainers T-6s and SNJs to a modified P-51 for the WWII buffs just about any classic - fourteen J-3s 11 Vagabonds Cessna 120140170180195s Pipers with every PA numshyber Luscombes Ercoupes Swifts and more Antique buffs were thrilled with the Wacos - UPF-7 QCF-2 and 10 Monocoupe Spartan 7-Ws Lockheed 12s Stinshysons and others Space prevents acknowledging each type and aircraft present but in the opinion of many Chapter 3 had an outstanding representation of all categories

Of interest to many and a possible suggestion to other chapters is the compatability of various aviashyt ion groups For several years the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers has met during each of Chapter 3 fly-ins What is more interesting to an OX-5 member than to meet with his friends and at the same time be able to see and enjoy the aircraft he used to fly in the early days of aviation This Wing has a noon

meeting on the Saturday of our fly-in and their memshybers are always welcome to inspect the aircraft and enjoy buddy rides with us Many OX-5 members remain through Saturday evening to enjoy our banquet watch the films and exchange tales of their past years

On Saturday morning we noted a mass of aircraft approaching from the northwest Soon we recognized them as a loose formation of Vagabonds coming from their fIrst annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In held on Friday May 2 at Air Harbor Airport Greensboro North Carolina With judging and Vagabond talk comshypleted at Greensboro they had ventured to Madison for breakfast on the fIeld and then on to Burlington for our Chapter 3 fly-in The Vagabond travelling from furthest point north was from Morristown New Jershysey and the Vagabond coming from the southernmost point was flown by Carolyn Baker GriffIn Georgia Trophies were awarded to Ron Cox for the Best Airshycraft and to Henry Pitts for the Best Restoration Their 2nd Annual Southeastern Vagabond Fly-In is scheduled for the fall of 1982 and they are looking forward to a large attendance

The usual sound of modern engines was often inshyterrupted by the smooth bark of a round engine but on Saturday we were treated to the rare sound of a

Old pals reunited Ray Bottom Hampton VA Jeff Austin High POint Ne and Barbara Kitchens Milner GA

Tommy Hazel diligently polishing his fathers Stearman Tommys dad Is Doug Hazelmiddotfrom Broad Run VA

slow running OX-5 purring like a kitten To our knowlshyedge there is not an OX-5 flying in the three state area and we wondered whether Harold Armstrong of Rawlings Maryland had fInally completed the restoration of his Waco 10 We had been looking at pictures of his restorashytion project for the past seven years and 10 and be~ hold here it was entering the pattern After landing and taxiing up to the antiques grassy parking area -r Harold informed us the trip was uneventful and a postshyflight inspection showed an amazingly clean engine When things settled down we learned the Waco 10 had just been licensed and test flown and he just had to fly it to Chapter 3s spring fly-in Departing from Keyer West Virginia Harold and his son arrived after a long three hour flight A few tears were seen as many fond memories were recalled by several of the OX-5 Avia-

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tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

12JULY 1981

Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

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TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

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Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

tion Pioneers present when the Waco 10 arrived Under the capable direction of Espie Butch Joyce

the judges began the job of selecting the award winshyners for the fly-in Judging began officially at 2 pm and three and one-half hours later the judges had comshypleted their paperwork and had selected the winners Butch incidentally is an EAA Life Member past presishydent of EAA Chapter 8 vice president of Antique Classic Chapter 3 and has recently been appointed as Advisor to the Board of Directors of the EAA Antique Classic Division His volunteer work over many years has been an asset to EAA and our local chapters

Saturday evening began with a social hour followed by a banquet at the Ramada Inn Two hundred and thirtyshyeight members and guests attended the evening meal which was followed by a well-rounded program under the direction of Bill Hawkins president of Chapter 3 After business reports by secretary Geneva McKiernan and treasurer George McKierman we were entertained with choice words from Max Freeman president of the Carolinas Wing of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers Award winners were announced by Butch Joyce and the preshysentations were made by Susan Trogden Following the awards the banquet room was converted to a theatre and we again enjoyed vintage movies and films

During the past fly-ins most of the pilots had started for home by Sunday noon but not this year With excellent weather good forecasts and pleasant temperatures the fly-in continued all day with flyshybys social visits and just good fun Highlighting the days fly-bys were several passes by EAA Air Museum Foundation Director Jimmy Leeward in his modified P-51D By 5 pm the last of the visitors had departed and a fine fly-in had come to its conclusion

AntiqueClassic Chapter 3 has two fly-ins each year the first weekend in May and the middle of October Our fall fly-in will be in Camden South Carolina middoton October 16-18 1981 and everyone is welcome Each year we see more show aircraft making flights of greatshyer distances This year marked our first Canadian visitor when Richard Eaves of London Ontario arrived with a friend in his Wittman Tailwind And would you believe that six members of the famed Tullahoma Bunch made their first arrival at the fly-in in a four wheeled van Our opinion is that this group will arrive at Camden for our fall fly-in inmiddot their fine collection of antique and classic aircraft Weare looking forward to our fall fly-in and want to invite all to this fine social and fun-loving gathering

Coke Darden Cayce SC takes off in his beautiful Spartan Executive Coke missed the last two or three Chapter 3 FlyshyIns as he was working in Germany Coke owns other rare antique aircraft some of which are on display at the Wings and Wheels Museum in Orlando FL

12JULY 1981

Beautiful P-51 D owned by Jimmy Leeward Ocala FL Jimmy is a member of the Board of Trustees of the EAA Aviation Foundation This Mustang appeared with others in a centershyfold spread in a recent issue of AIR CLASSICS

John Klein of Charlotte HC owns this neat Bucker Jungmann

AWARD WINNERS

Experimental Awards Best Monoplane N99FW Vari-Eze Fred Wimberly Best Biplane NIHW Steen Skybolt Hale Wallace Grand Champion N777MR Christen Eagle Mike amp

Lyn Rice

Classic Awards Best 0-65 hp NC38524 1941 J-3 Cub Bryan Dalton Best 66-85 hp N4628E Aeronca Chief David Long Best 86-100 hp N3613V Cessna 140 Pete Petree Best 101-150 hp N78161 Swift Robert A Brown Best 151-600 hp N6492 Cessna 195 Chuck amp Gail Berthe Best Custom N1390E Aeronca 7BCM Bill Pancake Grand Champion N1221D Cessna 170A Bob Yates

Best Warblrd N4QU SNJ-5 Jeff Michaels

Antique Awards Best Silver Age NC11453 Waco QCF-2 Red Nichols Best Contemporary Age N173E Waco UPF-7 George

McKiernan Best Custom NC25628 Lockheed 12-A Bob Allen Grand Champion NC3960 1927 Waco 10 C H Armshy

strong

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13

TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

FORUM TENT No4 1981 EAA FLY-IN CONVENTION ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC

FORUM SCHEDULE - RON FRITZ 900-1 015 1030-11 45 1200-1 15 1 30-245 300-415

SATURDAY Cessna 120140 DeHavilland Moths World War I Navions bull What to Cessna 120140

AUG 1 Early Development John Bright

and Aluminum Airplanes Look for When (Continued)

Wally Batter Inspecting a Navion Richard C Paige Jr Skin Restoration R G Rogien

Richard C Paige Jr American Navion

SUNDAY AUG 2

Early Aeroncas Cessna 1201140 Ed Scnubert Frank Haricock

Aeronca Club International Cessna 1201140 Assn Inc

Society

Bucker Airplanes Rearwins and Stinson 108 Series Steve Govus Commonwealths Airplanes

John Bergeson George Williams Gregg Dickerson Bucker Club Gary Van Farrow Bruce Lane

Rearwin Club Stinson Owners and Restorers

MONDAY AUG 3

Restoration and Happy Birthday Preservation of to the Cub Fabric Pipers Clyde Smith Jr

Clyde Smith Jr Piper Aircraft Piper Aircraft Corp

Luscombes Fairchilds Howard Airplanes John Bergeson Donald Coleman Dick Martin Luscombe Club Fairchild Club Howard Club

TUESDAY AUG 4

WEDNESDAY AUG 5

THURSDAY

Ryan PTs and Piper Tripacers Kinner Engines Pacers Colts and Ron Johnson Clippers

Ryan Club Stan Lega Piper TriPacer Club

Piper Vagabonds Pre-War Aeronca Clippers and Pacers Chiefs

Cecil Ogles George York Vagabond Club Aeronca Chief

Expert

Ercoupes Cessna 170

Converting Tripacers WACOs Aeroncas to Pacers Ray Brandly C L Wagner

Panel of TriPacermiddot Waco Club Aeronca Owners Pacer Owners Club

Swifts Beech Staggerwings AntiqueClassic Charles Nelson Jim Gorman Aircraft Judging

Swift Club George York Claude Gray Staggerwing Club EM Aircraft

Judging Chairman

Cessna 170 Cessna 195 Cessna 195

AUG 6

FRIDAY AUG 7

Don Stretch George Mock Ercoupe Club International

Cessna 170 Association

Restoring EM Bill Chomo

EM Air Museum Museum Airplanes

Continued Clifford Crabs Continued Bill Terrell Dick Moen

Cessna 195 Club

Porterfields Aeroncas Chuck Lebrecht C L Wagner Porterfield Club Aeronca Owners

Club

DRYING UP THE LYCOMING 0---435 $$$$

By Ed Skeeter Carlson (EAA 260 AIC 2043)

Route 1 Box 202 Spokane WA 99204

Some time back I participated in an air tour of vintage aircraft with my L-5 Stinson One stop was at Philip South Dakota where we were met by Marion Havilaar (of Waco Fame) to be escorted to the Rapid City Airport Marion was a passenger in an all white very clean Stinson L-5 owned by his friend Kenneth Post Now a white L-5 is a very hard item to keep that way so I kept my eye on this bird and during the flight watched in amazement as it outran my Stinson Arriving at Rapid City the first order of business was to find out what was with that pretty white airplane Kenneth advised me that he followed the A VCO Lycoming Service Instruction No 1037H

At home I installed the 0-290D pistons 69958 complete with FW type compression rings and 0-290D oil ring This sounds so simple but it really works My L-5 now burns 9 gph instead of 13 and uses minimum oil for example 1 quart on the round trip from Spokane Washington to Oshkosh Wisconsin instead of a quart per hour It also raised the horse power substantially and it is a legal fix Later I did this on two 0 -435s for homebuilts and had the same excellent results With the current price of gas and oil it doesnt take long to r ecover the price of the cure The following service instruction is available from Lycoming

Service Instruction No 1037H (Supersedes Service Instruction No 1037G) Engineering Aspects are FAA (DER) Approved A VCO Lycoming Williamsport Division A VCO Corporation Williamsport Pennsylvania 17701

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13

TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

TroutBy Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234 Ale 202)

1224 9th Avenue West Seattle WA 98119

Evelyn Bobbi Trout first saw the light of day at Greenup Illinois January 7 1906 Born into a roamshying family she was the daughter of Lola Denman and George Trout She lived in numerous states - Colorado Arkansas Washington Ontario and Missouri during the pre-teen years The family fmally located and esshyt ablished roots in Southern California in the Los Angeles area 418 South Soto Street was homebase during the 30s She had one brother Denman and t wo n ephews interestingly named Brook and Lake Trout

Bobbi h ad her first airplane ride in 1922 but it was not until 1927-28 that she learned to fly at Burshydett Fullers Flying School Fuller Field close to 85th and Southwestern The airport was adjacent to that owned by J ack Frye which operated as Aero Corps Flying Service

Bobbl and R O Bone Golden Eagle Company owner 14 JULY 1981

Lone Eagle pose with a Golden Eagle

Flying time did not come easy during the lean years and to supplement her earnings in the early days she owned and operated auto service stations at Anaheim and at 4th and Soto Los Angeles This helped in comshypleting her schooling and adding flying time to the log book With 200+ hours accumulated Bobbi acquired Transport license 2613 becoming the fifth woman in the USA to obtain this rating About this time R O Bone who headed up the Golden Eagle Aircraft Comshypany was in need of a demonstration and test pilot and Bobbi signed on In order to bring attention and sales appeal to the aircraft a number of record endurshyance and altitude flights were undertaken

Trout flew one of the early Golden Eagles at the dedication of the Los Angeles-Metropolitan Airport at Van Nuys December 16 1928 and won the womens closed-course (pylon) race While the endurance flight of the Army Air Corps Fokker Question Mark was underway Bobbi took off for her first non-refueling enshydurance attempt from Van Nuys Airport Using a LeshyBlond 60 hp Golden Eagle she remained aloft 12 hours 11 minutes on January 2 1929 Using the same plane and flying from Mines Field (now Los Angeles Intershynational) she boosted the womens non-refueling record even higher on February 10-11 with a flight of 17 hours 5 minutes While setting this record she also made the first all-night solo flight by an aviatrix and hung up distance and time records for 60 hp engines and the most weighthp lifted

1929 continued to be a stellar year for Bobbi She flew a 90 hp Golden Eagle to 15200 feet a new womens altitude record for that particular category The flight was made June 1 from Grand Central Air Terminal Glendale California where Bobbi also flew in a race with Pancho Barnes and Margaret Perry In some of the later high-altitude cold-air flights Bobbi wore a newly designed electrically heated flying suit Subseshyquently the Lindberghs used similar suits on some of their long-distance flights

Bobbi and Louise Thaden hoped to team up in the summer for an endurance (in-air refueling) flight Louise thought she could acquire a Travel Air 6000 through the D C Warren Agency with whom she worked at

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

Margaret Perry Cooper Florence (Pancho) Bobbi inspects the Sunbeam s Wright Barnes and Bobbi Trout _ at Panchos Bobbi models a newly designed electrically Whirlwind 300 San Marino CA home

Oakland and Bobbi was to arrange for the airport and additional backing However R O Bone was not enshythused about the venture so it was shelved

Trout entered the Golden Eagle 90 hp Kinner R223M in the First Womens Air Derby from Santa Monica to Cleveland August 18-26 Although a forced landing near Yuma put her out of the competition she managed to fly the course and finish at Cleveland a few hours after the winning contestants along with a couple of other entrants Race winner Louise Thaden wrote Were there a O prize foor tenacity Trout and Haizlip surely would be in an uncontested tie for the award

Local air shows attracted attention to aviation so Bobbi participated with Gladys ODonnell Margaret Perry Cooper Clema Granger Melba Gorby Beard Aline Miller Yolanda Spirito and others Although a cershytain amount of friendly rivalry existed as the pilots vied for altitude and endurance records and over the race course camaraderie came to the fore This evenshytually led to the formation of such organizations as the Ninety-Nines and the Womens Air Reserve among others

Elinor Smith (License 3178) had been setting solo endurance records in New York and Bobbi in the West so they joined forces after having met at the 29 National Air Races in Cleveland Arrangements were made to fly a big Commercial biplane Sunbeam X-564M powshyered by degaWright Whirlwind 300 from the Van Nuys Airport

The first attempt to hang up an in-air refueling record for women November 25 1929 was thwarted when the pilots found the Sunbeam was out of rig and they were unable to hold position below and beshyhind the refueling ship during two attempted conshytacts They landed after a 6 hour 16 minute flight The refueling plane NR35 a Curtiss Carrier Pigeon was manned by Pete Reinhart and Paul Whittier

Two days later Trout-Smith took off at 940 am and this time the rigging proved to be satisfactory They were refueled by the Pigeon three times and the Pigeon engine went to pieces during the fourth refueling Without a standby refueler and low on fuel Bobbi and

heated flying suit

Elinor landed after 42 hours 5 minutes in the air the best and first record of its kind for women

Prior to the endurance flight both girls designed their own flying suits with matching helmets for dress up occasions Suede material was chosen and Elinors was a dark avacado color Bobbis was of fuchsia and beige and the suits were tailored by Hook Ltd Los Angeles Bobbis featured bell-bottoms and with long leg zippers the legs could be cinched up for close fit when needed in flying Bobbi is still considered an exshycellent seamstress and makes innovative improvements to her wardrobe

Toward the end of the year she became one of the ninety-nine charter members of The Ninety-Nines Inc

May 30-31 1930 found Bobbi at the dedications of the United Airport Burbank (later Lockheed) - here she won the Pratt and Whitney Trophy presented by Mrs Hamilton in the Womens Pylon Race

The in-air refueling fever struck again - Edna May Cooper (License 13310) joined as second pilot and a Curtiss Robin NR749M Challenger powered was used for the flight The ship was christened Lady Rolph named after the California Governor at that time

New Years Day 1931 at 330 pm marked the beshyginning of Bobbi and Edna Mays renewed assault on the in-air refueling record from Mines Field Los Anshygeles The old Curtiss Pigeon was to be used as the reshyfueling plane however it was impossible to start the engine so as darkness fell and without being refueled the girls landed

Three days later manager and promoter Joseph Martin had arranged for a Curtiss Thrush to do the refueling and Lady Rolph was off again at 230 pm The Thrush was flown by Bud Hussey and Ralph deRose Eleven refueling contacts were made during the 5-day+ flight An extra contact was made early in the flight to take on a pole and knife so a small drop-parachute could be cut away from the empennage The flight ended after 122 hours 50 minutes when the Robin engine developed a cracked piston

There were plans afoot for Bobbi to attempt a TransshyPacific flight from Hawaii to the Mainland the summer of 31 in a modified Lockheed Sirius however the flight

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 15

Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

Nice lines featured the Golden Eagle Chief

At Grand Central Air Terminal Marvel Crosson Bobbi Trout AI Wilson and Louise Thaden Spring of 1929

Bobbl demonstrates how to rest in flight atop the gas tank -Elinor Smith In cockpit

Bobbi tells a good story to author Buffington

16JULY 1981

did not materialize for lack of backing Amelia Earshyhart accomplished the feat January 11-12 1935 in her Lockheed Vega Wheeler Field to Oakland first person to solo Hawaii to California

The Womens Air Reserve had been formed on the West Coast a patriotic group to serve in time of need during National emergencies and disasters somewhat the same intent as the Betsy Ross Corps The summer of 1934 found Trout joining five other members of the WAR in a round-trip trans-continental flight (Los Angeles Kansas City Cleveland New York Washshyington DC and return) They flew J-5 Stearmans and were sponsored by the Gilmore Oil Company their natty uniforms were of powder blue with black accesshysories

Mary Charles and co-pilot Patty Willis were forced down and out of the tour early-on but the other two planes flown by Bobbi with Viola Niell as co-pilot and Pancho Barnes with co-pilot Nancy Drake Chaffee finished the unique junket

Prior to and during WWII Trouts company the countrys most complete set-up salvaged the discarded rivets from the various aircraft manufacturers sorted and readied them for use again The company was sold in 1943 and a de-burring service started which is still active

In 1956 Bobbi moved to the Palm Springs area and engaged in real estate and investments Although now semi-retired Bobbi occasionally delves in real estate She regularly attends invention and camera meetings and is considered an excellent dowser in treasure huntshying She enjoys her Lindy mobile home on outings and keeps her bright red Porsche in action on the freeways Currently she lives in her condo at LaCosta Carlsbad California

Some more recent citations and honors have been October 1 1976 - Plaque Outstanding Womens

Award - San Diego OX-5 Aviation Pioneers August 4 1977 - Plaque EAA Golden Age National

Air Races Day Oshkosh Wisconsin July 18-22 1979 - One of 14 charter members atshy

tending the Annual Ninety-Nines Convention Albany New York

November 2 1979 - Charter Appreciation Plaque San Diego Aerospace Historical Center - 50th Anniversary of The Ninety-Nines

Bobbi served as 1979 race starter for both the Air Race Classic and the Angel Derby both of which beshygan at Santa Monica Municipal Airport The crossshycountry races helped to commemorate the 50th annivershysary of the First Womens Air Derby and the Angel Derby routing retraced the 1929 entrants the other two are Mary Haizlip and Blanche Noyes

Always with a creative and inventive mind among other inventions Bobbi has perfected a carrying case for camera filters a see-through egg container and a She-wee which spells relief for the girls while on extended hikes drives or flights

BT still has much of the vitality she had during the record-setting days of yore and proves to be a very good after-dinner speaker She doesnt hesitate to assume the Good Samaritan role whenever any of her friends need help as they reach the Golden Years and she conshytinues to be a good story-teller The Porsche sports license TIG CH3 California plates and she will answer to a Tig call on the CB

I have often heard Bobbi say I just loved the flyshying years and the people associated with them Bobbis book about the flying times and friends Just Plane Crazy slated for release soon should make for some great reading

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

Some other ideas for searching would be scanning old city directories scrap books news morgues and

APPEAL By Glenn Buffington

(Friend of the Ninety-Nines) 1224 9th Avenue West

Seattle WA 98119

WANTED Information regarding this pilot and 27 other 99 Charterites

Editors Note Glenn Buffington (EAA 1234) is assistshying the 99s in attempting to locate the missing charter members named here It is hoped the readers of The VINshyTAGE AIRPLANE might be able to provide some inshyformation which would help them in their search

If any of these ladies can be located this would be a great opportunity to talk with them and possibly get some interesting material for a story

A concerted effort should be made by historians and others of the various 99 chapters in order to bestow Life Memberships to the charter members not previously honored

There are 28 charterites in the unknown address file and some can no doubt be located through diligent searching A plea can be made in the local press and magazines someone may see the account and know of further details

contacting places of past employment of these memshybers For instance at one time DOIG had an execushytive position with The Macy Company BROWN trashyveled to Japan and wrote for NAA Magazine WALSH taught school and COX was affiliated with CurtissshyWight Public records at local libraries (newsprints obltuaries etc) and census depositories may also help to update the records

The law of averages tell us some of the 28 may be deceased others have a name change through marshyriage and no doubt some have changed their locale numerous times However sometimes a person returns to the homeport after years of vagabonding

Ruth Deerman who initiated the Charter Search during her tenure of office as President of The NinetyshyNines supplies us with a listing of last known early 30s addresses for starters

Middle East Section Margery H BROWN Chester WV and New York NY Marion CLARK Baltimore MD Helen COX Cohecy Hagerstown MD Sylvia Anthony NELSON Philadelphia PA and Rhineshy

lander WI E Ruth WEBB Llanerch and Philadelphia P A

New England Section Irene J CHASSEY Hartford CT Jean DAVIDSON Greenwich CT Sarah S FENNO Barrington RI Margery L DOIG Greenburg Danbury CT and Flushshy

ing NY Olivia Keet MATHEWS Mangham Dedham MA

New York - New Jersey Section Agnes A MILLS Floral Park NY Margaret F OMARA Port Washington NY Wilma L WALSH Belleville NJ and Maplewood NH

North Central Section Ruth T BRIDEWELL Hinsdale IL Myrtle R CALDWELL Clevelang OH Ruth E HALLIBURTON Toledo OH Lola L LUTZ Oshkosh WI Hazel Mark SPANAGLE Lakewood OH Dorothy L STOCKER Chicago IL

South Central Section Frances FERGUSON Leitch Ponca City OK and St

Paul MN Ethel LOVELACE Houston TX Elizabeth F PLACE Colorado Springs CO Alberta B WORLEY Oklahoma City OK

Southeast Section Barbara W BANCROFT Anastasia FL

Southwest Section Sacha Peggy HALL Martin Santa Ana and Glendale CA Peggie J PAXSON Los Angeles CA Lillian PORTER Glendale and Pasadena CA Mathilda J RAY Los Angeles CA

The surnames at charter-time (1929) are in capital letters All listed pilots had four-digit license numbers excepting DOIG who held 10073

If you find data regarding any of these founding members please forward same to International Headshyquarters The Ninety-Nines PO Box 59965 Will Rogers Airport Oklahoma City OK 73159

Good luck and happy searching

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17

ANNUAL MICHIGAN VOLUNTEERS WEEKEND AT THE MUSEUM

(Photos by Gene Chase)

For the past several years one Saturday in April has seen a sleepy group of EAAers disembark from a chartered Greyhound bus about 200 am at the EAA Air Museum These folks represent several Chapters in Michigan and they spend the weekend working on various projects at the Museum Shop in Franklin WI and the Flight Facility at Burlington WI The followshying photos capture some of the activity

Rick Demond Jerry Williams Laurie Sherban and George Regan applying fabric to the Mong Sport fin

Fred Leonard Janet Dzendzel Bob Henk and under the wing Dave Coleman rib stitching one of the Waco 10 wing panels

Bill and Theresa Zens and sons David and Brian setting up army cots In the Museums Haedtler Hall which Is transshy

Jack Snyder (behind wing) Earl Scott and John Ryckman formed Into a Ifamlly style barracks for the weekend work on final assembly of the Meyers OTW

18 JULY 1981

Mary Ann Williams Maribel Barnes Loretta Okoniewski and Louise Broat spent hours separating aircraft hardware

Headquarters crew preparing the chickens for the Saturday night bar-b-que feast Chris Kovach Dorothy Chase and Bob Smith

Ernest Harbin and Don Pettit fitting the engine cowling on the Travel Air 2000

BOOK REVIEW

Iowa Takes to theAir Volume One by Ann Holtgren Pellegreno is a detailed and well-documented account of flying in that state covering the period from 1845 to 1918 The great amount of aerial activity during those years is truly amazing Balloons hang gliders and dirigishybles were frequently flown at fairs and celebrations until 1910 when aeroplanes joined the scene

Thousands of people traveled miles to attend these events and were treated to exciting aeronautical feats Aerobatics performed by aeroplanes included steep turns sharp dips and figure eights executed over the crowds By 1914 inverted flight and spins had been introduced Not only are the successful attempts deshyscribed but also the failures as they too were a part of the story

Native Iowans as well as aeronauts and aviators from other states and countries performed at these events including several who became prominent nashytionally and internationally These flying activities in part shaped the aeronautical character of the nation and the world and the descriptive details and rare photographs allow the reader to relive the early atshytempts of courageous men and women to conquer the sky

After many hours of work and very little sleep the folks manage to smile as they board the bus on Sunday afternoon for the return trip home

Ann Holtgren Pellegreno and husband Don are EAA members currently living in Iowa Ann made her mark in the aviation world when she flew a Lockheed 10 around the world in 1967 completing the trip on which Amelia Earhart was lost in 1937 Ann wrote an excitshying account of this flight in a book titled World Flight - The Earhart Trail

Her current effort Iowa Takes to the Air has proshyduced a fascinating narrative which all aviation buffs will fmd to be entertaining as well as educational Her next project is the second volume of Iowa Takes to the Air

- G R Chase

Iowa Takes to the Air Volume One (1845-1918) is available from Aerodrome Press Box 44 Story City Iowa 50248 The 288-page book is hardbound 6 x 9 with a dust jacket and has 135 photoshygraphs The price is $1495 postpaid Iowans add 3 sales tax

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

LETTERS Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Attn Ben Owen Executive Director Information Services PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Dear Mr Owen I received with pleasure your letter of May 8 1981

together with a copy of SPORT A VIATION and copies of your April 1979 VINTAGE AIRPLANE That artishycle which you so graciously published has brought letters middotfrom a great many people who either are Belshylanca enthusiasts like me or helped Russell and me in some way in our trip in 1931 It has been a most rewarding experience and I am most indebted to you

One of those persons who has contacted me was Byron Fredericksen and through him my wife and I had the very good fortune to be able to attend the Oshkosh meet last August A most amazing display and a super show

To return to the intent of your letter you stated that Don Varnum Chapter President of 498 wished to present me an Honorary Lifetime Membership in EAA at the dinner in July I am deeply touched to be so honored and accept gratefully the honor from the International EAA Membership

Thank you too for your good wishes I have been greatly blessed with some skill excellent health and many many fine friends No man should ask for more

Sincerely John L Polando Mill Road East Sandwich MA 02537

Editors Note John L Polando and Russell Boardman set a world record for distance when they flew their Bellanca from New York to Istanbul Turkey - July 28shy301931 See story by Mr Polando on page 16 of the April 1979 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE

Dear Sir Enclosed please find a color photograph of my Fairshy

child 24 which you may wish to publish in your magashyzine

The photograph was taken from a 1938 model Fairshychild 24 on return from Oshkosh in August 79 over northern Minnesota

You will notice that my personal card and the logo for our association incorporate the Fairchild 24 design Our museum has nine antique-classic-warbird aircraft all in mint condition in a brand new steel and concrete hangar just south of Edmonton Alberta

Best regards Dr John Bachynski (EAA 139175 AlC 4834) 9303 Saskatchewan Drive Edmonton Alberta T6G 2B3 Canada

Dear Gene Words cannot express the pleasure I derive from

reading re-reading and sometimes drooling over our magazine Only wish at times that it were more volumishynous

A recent business trip to Southern California alshylowed me the opportunity to visit the Tallmantz Museum at John Wayne Airport I was able to spend only Ph hours there as opposed to the couple of days I needed

Possibly could a feature issue give us a good look at this museum

Sincerely Dick Williams (EAA 19176 AlC 1233) 7753 N Camino de Maximillian Tucson AZ 85704

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MICHIGAN 8 WESTERN

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MINNESOTA 4 MINNEAPOLIS

Stan Gomoll 1042 90th Lane NE Blaine MN 55434 TELEPHONE (612) 784-1172

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NEW JERSEY 7 FLANDERS

AI bert W Douglas 29 Kenneth CI Florham Parll NJ 07932 TELEPHONE (201) 377-8925

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NEW YORK 6 ROCHESTER

Will iam Leonard 231 Eugene SI Rochester NY 14606 TELEPHONE (716) 458-2403

MEETING 2nd Tuesday 800 pm Spencerport Air Parll Spencerport

NORTH CAROLINA 3 CHARLOTTE

W W (Bill) Hawkins PO Box 789 Camden SC 29020 TELEPHONE (803) 432-9595

MEETING Contact President OKLAHOMA

10 TULSA Hurley Ie Boehler RI 8 Box 617 Claremore OK 74017 TELEPHONE (918) 341-3772

MEETING 2nd Thursday 730 pm Iliff Aircraft Hangar 17 Tulsa International Airport

PENNSYLVANIA 5 YORK

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MEETING 4th Thursday 800 pm Shiloh Branch - Yorll Bank Shiloh

TEXAS 2 HOUSTON

J J (Jonsey) Paul 14418 Skinner Road Cypress TX 77429 TELEPHONE (713) 373-0418

MEETING 4th Sunday 200 pm Dry Creek Airport Cyrpess

WASHINGTON 9 SEATTLE

Fred C Ellsworth 17639 SE 293rd Place Kent WA 98031 TELEPHONE (206) 631-9117

MEETING Contact President

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CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1 - MOMENCE ILLINOIS - Second AIRPLANE NOSTALGIA PHOTO SHOW Over 400 gallery-mounted 8 x 10 photoshygraphs of homebuilt private commercial and military aircraft from the 1920s to the 1950s Admission is free The Hoosegow Art Galshylery 106 North Dixie Highway Momence Illinois 60954 For further information please contact Hugh Butterfield (EM 121478) at the Hoosegow 815472-4990

JULY 3-5 - PORT LAVACA TEXAS - Gulf Coast Sport Aviation Fly-in Calhoun County Airport Sponsored by the Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce EM Chapter 340 and EM AntiqueClassic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce P O Box 528 Port Lavaca TX 77979 512552-2959

JULY 3-5 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual July Fly-in at Antique Airfield including mini-conventions of the newly reformed Air Replicas International International Pietenpol Assn Fairchild Club Luscombe Assn and WW- II PT and Liaison Plane Reunion The entire event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wiley Post and Harold Gattys 1931 around-the-world flight Contact Barry Taylor Rt 2 Box 172 Ottumwa IA 52501 515938-2773

JULY 4 - ROCHESTER MINNESOTA - 3rd Annual Airshow sponsored by the Rochester Area Pilots Association Static display of homeshybuilt aircraft Contact John P Anhalt 2205 Viking Drive NW Rochester MN 55901 or Monte Posey 507937-3348

JULY 4-5 - AEROFLEX-ANDOVER NEW JERSEY - Flanders Valley EM Ant iqueClassic Chapter 7 and EM Chapter 238 Annual FlyshyIn RAIN or SHINE Antiques classics warbirds homebuilts and factory machines welcome Movies food hangar square dance and much more Camping and lodging upon request For further information please contact AI Douglas President 29 Kenneth Court Florham Park NJ 07932 201 377-8925

JULY 10-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Taylorcraft National Fly-in sponsored by Taylorcraft Owners Club at Barbers Field Factory tour hangar flying fly-in breakfast All Taylorcraft owners invited Contact Allan Zollitsch 37 Taft Avenue Lancaster NY 14086 716681-1675

JULY 11-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Annual Taylorcraft Fly-InReunion sponsored by the Taylorcraft Owners Club and the Taylorcraft Old Timers (former and present factory employees) Three miles north of Alliance at Barber Airport For further information please conshytact Bruce Bixler 216823-9748

JULY 11-12 - COLUMBUS INDIANA - The Confederate Air Force will present a MAJOR EFFORT WW II Air Power demonstration and air show at Bakalar Airport Restored military aircraft in aerial displays of historical events of WW II Precision aerobatics by the Christen Eagles and Art Scholl Contact Confederate Air Force Indiana Squadron PO Box 41190 Indianapolis IN 46241

JULY 12 - EASTON PENNSYLVANIA - Fifth Annual Aeronca Fly-in Largest Aeronca Fly-in in the East Fun events SCheduled Easton Airport For further information please contact Jim Polles 299 Nazareth Drive Nazareth PA 18064 215759-3713 Rain date July 19

JULY 17-19 - MINDEN NEBRASKA - 5th Annual National Stinson Club Fly-In at Pioneer Airfield Camping on the field available call 308832-2750 for motel reservations For further information please contact George Leamy 8031576-9698 or Bob Near 402463-9309

JULY 18-19 - BEALETON VIRGINIA - Cub and Aeronca Annual Fly-in at Flying Circus Aerodrome E J L series cubs all Aeroncas Airshow on 19th Contact Hal or Arlene Bogert 10570 Main St B203 Fairfax VA 22030 by July 15 703273-8746

AUGUST 1-8 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 29th Annual EM Fly-In Convention It is never too early to start making plans for the worlds GREATEST AVIATION EVENT

AUGUST 7-9 - LEWISTOWN MONTANA - 4th Annual Montana Chapter AM Fly-In at Beacon Star Antique Airfield For further information please contact Frank Bass Beacon Star Antique Airfield Star Route Moore MT 59464 406538-7616

AUGUST 9 - MENDOTA ILLINOIS - Fly-in breakfast 7 AM till noon in conjunction with the Mendota Sweet Corn Festival Homebuilts antiques and special interest aircraft have separate parking areas Parade at 1 PM Also art show and flea market Contact Phil Buland 804 Sixth Ave Mendota IL 61342 815539-6815

AUGUST 9-15 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - 12th Annual lAC Intershynational Championships

AUGUST 9-15 - PORTLAND OREGON - 13th Annual Convention of The International Cessna 170 Association For further information please contact Robert C Anderson 3307 NE Academy Avenue Portland OR 97200 503253-3449

AUGUST 16-23 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual AMAPM Fly-In AUGUST 23 - WEEDSPORT NEW YORK - Fly-In Antiques classics

and homebuilts welcome Sponsored by EM Chapter 486 Whitsshyford Airport Pancake breakfast air show Field closed 100 pm to 500 pm Intermission for early departures For further informashytion please contact Herb Livingston 1257 Gallagher Road Bald shywinsville NY 13027

AUGUST 28-30 - COFFEYVILLE KS - Funk Fly-In Sponsored by Coffeyville Jaycees For further information please contact George E Lipe PO Box 372 So Coffeyville OK 74072

SEPTEMBER 3-6 - OTTUMWA IOWA - 8th Annual Antique Airmen Fly-In Reunion at Ottumwa Industrial Airport All antiques classics warbirds homebuilts etc welcome For further information contact Gene Aldrich 515684-4744 or Andy Norton 515563-2187

SEPTEMBER 13 - BOLIVAR TENNESSEE - Airshow and Tennessee Forest Festival sponsored by Hardeman County Chamber of Comshymerce Trophies awarded for homebuilts antiques warbirds and ultralights Airshow features Duane and Marion Cole and Ben Morphew Contact Billy Whitehurst PO Box 376 Bolivar TN 38008 1-800-238-6871

SEPTEMBER 17-19 - CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA - Silver Wings 23rd Annual Convention Highlights are old time pilots reunion and air show Firestone Pitts aerobatic team skydiving hot air balloon comedy acts etc All eligible pilots active or retired civil or military welcome Make your reservations now For further information please contact Haskell Deaton Chairman Box 1822 Charlotte NC 28218 or National Headquarters Box 1228 Harrisburg PA 17108

SEPTEMBER 18-19 - LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY - Bowman Field Old-Timers Reunion Anyone active at Bowman Field prior to 1940 please contact Ed Peck Reunion Coordinator 214 Lynnwood Drive Jeffersonville IN 47130 812944-1028

OCTOBER 9-11 - ANDERSON INDIANA - Annual Convention and FlyshyIn sponsored by the International Cessna 120140 Association Inc For further information please contact Frank Hancock 3941 West Cross Street Anderson IN 46011 317643-1593

OCTOBER 16-18 - CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA - Fly-In Antiques Classics Homebuilts Ultralights and Warbirds invited Awards and banquet Saturday night For further information contact Geneva McKiernan 5301 Finsbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

NOVEMBER 21-22 - MIAMI FLORIDA - Antique Classic and Cusshytom Built Exhibit and Fly-In at sixth annual Harvest sponsored by Historical Association of Southern Florida Located at Tamiami Fairgrounds Coral Way at 112th Avenue in Miami Contact Elizashybeth Bookout 305557-5530 or Genie Card 305253-3776

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Mary Ann Williams Maribel Barnes Loretta Okoniewski and Louise Broat spent hours separating aircraft hardware

Headquarters crew preparing the chickens for the Saturday night bar-b-que feast Chris Kovach Dorothy Chase and Bob Smith

Ernest Harbin and Don Pettit fitting the engine cowling on the Travel Air 2000

BOOK REVIEW

Iowa Takes to theAir Volume One by Ann Holtgren Pellegreno is a detailed and well-documented account of flying in that state covering the period from 1845 to 1918 The great amount of aerial activity during those years is truly amazing Balloons hang gliders and dirigishybles were frequently flown at fairs and celebrations until 1910 when aeroplanes joined the scene

Thousands of people traveled miles to attend these events and were treated to exciting aeronautical feats Aerobatics performed by aeroplanes included steep turns sharp dips and figure eights executed over the crowds By 1914 inverted flight and spins had been introduced Not only are the successful attempts deshyscribed but also the failures as they too were a part of the story

Native Iowans as well as aeronauts and aviators from other states and countries performed at these events including several who became prominent nashytionally and internationally These flying activities in part shaped the aeronautical character of the nation and the world and the descriptive details and rare photographs allow the reader to relive the early atshytempts of courageous men and women to conquer the sky

After many hours of work and very little sleep the folks manage to smile as they board the bus on Sunday afternoon for the return trip home

Ann Holtgren Pellegreno and husband Don are EAA members currently living in Iowa Ann made her mark in the aviation world when she flew a Lockheed 10 around the world in 1967 completing the trip on which Amelia Earhart was lost in 1937 Ann wrote an excitshying account of this flight in a book titled World Flight - The Earhart Trail

Her current effort Iowa Takes to the Air has proshyduced a fascinating narrative which all aviation buffs will fmd to be entertaining as well as educational Her next project is the second volume of Iowa Takes to the Air

- G R Chase

Iowa Takes to the Air Volume One (1845-1918) is available from Aerodrome Press Box 44 Story City Iowa 50248 The 288-page book is hardbound 6 x 9 with a dust jacket and has 135 photoshygraphs The price is $1495 postpaid Iowans add 3 sales tax

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 19

LETTERS Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Attn Ben Owen Executive Director Information Services PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Dear Mr Owen I received with pleasure your letter of May 8 1981

together with a copy of SPORT A VIATION and copies of your April 1979 VINTAGE AIRPLANE That artishycle which you so graciously published has brought letters middotfrom a great many people who either are Belshylanca enthusiasts like me or helped Russell and me in some way in our trip in 1931 It has been a most rewarding experience and I am most indebted to you

One of those persons who has contacted me was Byron Fredericksen and through him my wife and I had the very good fortune to be able to attend the Oshkosh meet last August A most amazing display and a super show

To return to the intent of your letter you stated that Don Varnum Chapter President of 498 wished to present me an Honorary Lifetime Membership in EAA at the dinner in July I am deeply touched to be so honored and accept gratefully the honor from the International EAA Membership

Thank you too for your good wishes I have been greatly blessed with some skill excellent health and many many fine friends No man should ask for more

Sincerely John L Polando Mill Road East Sandwich MA 02537

Editors Note John L Polando and Russell Boardman set a world record for distance when they flew their Bellanca from New York to Istanbul Turkey - July 28shy301931 See story by Mr Polando on page 16 of the April 1979 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE

Dear Sir Enclosed please find a color photograph of my Fairshy

child 24 which you may wish to publish in your magashyzine

The photograph was taken from a 1938 model Fairshychild 24 on return from Oshkosh in August 79 over northern Minnesota

You will notice that my personal card and the logo for our association incorporate the Fairchild 24 design Our museum has nine antique-classic-warbird aircraft all in mint condition in a brand new steel and concrete hangar just south of Edmonton Alberta

Best regards Dr John Bachynski (EAA 139175 AlC 4834) 9303 Saskatchewan Drive Edmonton Alberta T6G 2B3 Canada

Dear Gene Words cannot express the pleasure I derive from

reading re-reading and sometimes drooling over our magazine Only wish at times that it were more volumishynous

A recent business trip to Southern California alshylowed me the opportunity to visit the Tallmantz Museum at John Wayne Airport I was able to spend only Ph hours there as opposed to the couple of days I needed

Possibly could a feature issue give us a good look at this museum

Sincerely Dick Williams (EAA 19176 AlC 1233) 7753 N Camino de Maximillian Tucson AZ 85704

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FLORIDA 1 LAKELAND

E A Crosby 2406 Lofberg Drive Jacksonville FL 32216 TELEPHONE (904) 725-3802

MEETING Contact President

MICHIGAN 8 WESTERN

Philip l Coulson RI 2 Box 39B Lawton MI 49065 TElEPHONE (616) 624-6490

MEETING Contact President

MINNESOTA 4 MINNEAPOLIS

Stan Gomoll 1042 90th Lane NE Blaine MN 55434 TELEPHONE (612) 784-1172

MEETING Contact President

NEW JERSEY 7 FLANDERS

AI bert W Douglas 29 Kenneth CI Florham Parll NJ 07932 TELEPHONE (201) 377-8925

MEETING Contact President

NEW YORK 6 ROCHESTER

Will iam Leonard 231 Eugene SI Rochester NY 14606 TELEPHONE (716) 458-2403

MEETING 2nd Tuesday 800 pm Spencerport Air Parll Spencerport

NORTH CAROLINA 3 CHARLOTTE

W W (Bill) Hawkins PO Box 789 Camden SC 29020 TELEPHONE (803) 432-9595

MEETING Contact President OKLAHOMA

10 TULSA Hurley Ie Boehler RI 8 Box 617 Claremore OK 74017 TELEPHONE (918) 341-3772

MEETING 2nd Thursday 730 pm Iliff Aircraft Hangar 17 Tulsa International Airport

PENNSYLVANIA 5 YORK

Paul l Schiding 401 W Marllet SI Yorll PA 17404 TELEPHONE (717) 741-1086

MEETING 4th Thursday 800 pm Shiloh Branch - Yorll Bank Shiloh

TEXAS 2 HOUSTON

J J (Jonsey) Paul 14418 Skinner Road Cypress TX 77429 TELEPHONE (713) 373-0418

MEETING 4th Sunday 200 pm Dry Creek Airport Cyrpess

WASHINGTON 9 SEATTLE

Fred C Ellsworth 17639 SE 293rd Place Kent WA 98031 TELEPHONE (206) 631-9117

MEETING Contact President

20 JULY 1981

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1 - MOMENCE ILLINOIS - Second AIRPLANE NOSTALGIA PHOTO SHOW Over 400 gallery-mounted 8 x 10 photoshygraphs of homebuilt private commercial and military aircraft from the 1920s to the 1950s Admission is free The Hoosegow Art Galshylery 106 North Dixie Highway Momence Illinois 60954 For further information please contact Hugh Butterfield (EM 121478) at the Hoosegow 815472-4990

JULY 3-5 - PORT LAVACA TEXAS - Gulf Coast Sport Aviation Fly-in Calhoun County Airport Sponsored by the Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce EM Chapter 340 and EM AntiqueClassic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce P O Box 528 Port Lavaca TX 77979 512552-2959

JULY 3-5 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual July Fly-in at Antique Airfield including mini-conventions of the newly reformed Air Replicas International International Pietenpol Assn Fairchild Club Luscombe Assn and WW- II PT and Liaison Plane Reunion The entire event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wiley Post and Harold Gattys 1931 around-the-world flight Contact Barry Taylor Rt 2 Box 172 Ottumwa IA 52501 515938-2773

JULY 4 - ROCHESTER MINNESOTA - 3rd Annual Airshow sponsored by the Rochester Area Pilots Association Static display of homeshybuilt aircraft Contact John P Anhalt 2205 Viking Drive NW Rochester MN 55901 or Monte Posey 507937-3348

JULY 4-5 - AEROFLEX-ANDOVER NEW JERSEY - Flanders Valley EM Ant iqueClassic Chapter 7 and EM Chapter 238 Annual FlyshyIn RAIN or SHINE Antiques classics warbirds homebuilts and factory machines welcome Movies food hangar square dance and much more Camping and lodging upon request For further information please contact AI Douglas President 29 Kenneth Court Florham Park NJ 07932 201 377-8925

JULY 10-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Taylorcraft National Fly-in sponsored by Taylorcraft Owners Club at Barbers Field Factory tour hangar flying fly-in breakfast All Taylorcraft owners invited Contact Allan Zollitsch 37 Taft Avenue Lancaster NY 14086 716681-1675

JULY 11-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Annual Taylorcraft Fly-InReunion sponsored by the Taylorcraft Owners Club and the Taylorcraft Old Timers (former and present factory employees) Three miles north of Alliance at Barber Airport For further information please conshytact Bruce Bixler 216823-9748

JULY 11-12 - COLUMBUS INDIANA - The Confederate Air Force will present a MAJOR EFFORT WW II Air Power demonstration and air show at Bakalar Airport Restored military aircraft in aerial displays of historical events of WW II Precision aerobatics by the Christen Eagles and Art Scholl Contact Confederate Air Force Indiana Squadron PO Box 41190 Indianapolis IN 46241

JULY 12 - EASTON PENNSYLVANIA - Fifth Annual Aeronca Fly-in Largest Aeronca Fly-in in the East Fun events SCheduled Easton Airport For further information please contact Jim Polles 299 Nazareth Drive Nazareth PA 18064 215759-3713 Rain date July 19

JULY 17-19 - MINDEN NEBRASKA - 5th Annual National Stinson Club Fly-In at Pioneer Airfield Camping on the field available call 308832-2750 for motel reservations For further information please contact George Leamy 8031576-9698 or Bob Near 402463-9309

JULY 18-19 - BEALETON VIRGINIA - Cub and Aeronca Annual Fly-in at Flying Circus Aerodrome E J L series cubs all Aeroncas Airshow on 19th Contact Hal or Arlene Bogert 10570 Main St B203 Fairfax VA 22030 by July 15 703273-8746

AUGUST 1-8 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 29th Annual EM Fly-In Convention It is never too early to start making plans for the worlds GREATEST AVIATION EVENT

AUGUST 7-9 - LEWISTOWN MONTANA - 4th Annual Montana Chapter AM Fly-In at Beacon Star Antique Airfield For further information please contact Frank Bass Beacon Star Antique Airfield Star Route Moore MT 59464 406538-7616

AUGUST 9 - MENDOTA ILLINOIS - Fly-in breakfast 7 AM till noon in conjunction with the Mendota Sweet Corn Festival Homebuilts antiques and special interest aircraft have separate parking areas Parade at 1 PM Also art show and flea market Contact Phil Buland 804 Sixth Ave Mendota IL 61342 815539-6815

AUGUST 9-15 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - 12th Annual lAC Intershynational Championships

AUGUST 9-15 - PORTLAND OREGON - 13th Annual Convention of The International Cessna 170 Association For further information please contact Robert C Anderson 3307 NE Academy Avenue Portland OR 97200 503253-3449

AUGUST 16-23 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual AMAPM Fly-In AUGUST 23 - WEEDSPORT NEW YORK - Fly-In Antiques classics

and homebuilts welcome Sponsored by EM Chapter 486 Whitsshyford Airport Pancake breakfast air show Field closed 100 pm to 500 pm Intermission for early departures For further informashytion please contact Herb Livingston 1257 Gallagher Road Bald shywinsville NY 13027

AUGUST 28-30 - COFFEYVILLE KS - Funk Fly-In Sponsored by Coffeyville Jaycees For further information please contact George E Lipe PO Box 372 So Coffeyville OK 74072

SEPTEMBER 3-6 - OTTUMWA IOWA - 8th Annual Antique Airmen Fly-In Reunion at Ottumwa Industrial Airport All antiques classics warbirds homebuilts etc welcome For further information contact Gene Aldrich 515684-4744 or Andy Norton 515563-2187

SEPTEMBER 13 - BOLIVAR TENNESSEE - Airshow and Tennessee Forest Festival sponsored by Hardeman County Chamber of Comshymerce Trophies awarded for homebuilts antiques warbirds and ultralights Airshow features Duane and Marion Cole and Ben Morphew Contact Billy Whitehurst PO Box 376 Bolivar TN 38008 1-800-238-6871

SEPTEMBER 17-19 - CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA - Silver Wings 23rd Annual Convention Highlights are old time pilots reunion and air show Firestone Pitts aerobatic team skydiving hot air balloon comedy acts etc All eligible pilots active or retired civil or military welcome Make your reservations now For further information please contact Haskell Deaton Chairman Box 1822 Charlotte NC 28218 or National Headquarters Box 1228 Harrisburg PA 17108

SEPTEMBER 18-19 - LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY - Bowman Field Old-Timers Reunion Anyone active at Bowman Field prior to 1940 please contact Ed Peck Reunion Coordinator 214 Lynnwood Drive Jeffersonville IN 47130 812944-1028

OCTOBER 9-11 - ANDERSON INDIANA - Annual Convention and FlyshyIn sponsored by the International Cessna 120140 Association Inc For further information please contact Frank Hancock 3941 West Cross Street Anderson IN 46011 317643-1593

OCTOBER 16-18 - CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA - Fly-In Antiques Classics Homebuilts Ultralights and Warbirds invited Awards and banquet Saturday night For further information contact Geneva McKiernan 5301 Finsbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

NOVEMBER 21-22 - MIAMI FLORIDA - Antique Classic and Cusshytom Built Exhibit and Fly-In at sixth annual Harvest sponsored by Historical Association of Southern Florida Located at Tamiami Fairgrounds Coral Way at 112th Avenue in Miami Contact Elizashybeth Bookout 305557-5530 or Genie Card 305253-3776

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CLASSIFIED ADS ACRO II - The new 2-place aerobatic trainer and sport biplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos exploded views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC PO Box 462 Hales Corshyners WI 53130 414425-4860 POBER PIXIE - VW powered parasol - unlimited in low cost pleasure flying Big roomy cockpit for the over six foot pilot VW power insures hard to beat 3h gph at cruise setting 15 large instruction sheets Plans - $4500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Bex 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

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250 ea SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO

EAA Air Museum Foundation Inc Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

DERRICK INDUSTRIES INC - Repair Station 464-61 Wooden propeller repair and manufacturing 1565 North Broadway Stockton CA 95205 Phone 209462-7381 WANTED 120 hp upright Gipsy II engine or 145 hp inshyverted Mark 7 engine Need propeller and hub for same Engine must be complete Al Kelch 622 North Madison Avenue Cedarburg WI 53012

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Back issues are available from Headquarters for $125 each postpaid except the July 1977 (Lindbergh Comshymemorative) issue which is $150 postpaid

22 JULY 1981

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION bull Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is $2500 for one year $4800 for 2 yearsEAA and $6900 for 3 years All include 12 issues of Sport Aviation per year Junior Membership (under 19

years of age) is available at $1500 annually

bull EAA Member - $1400 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthlyANTIQUEmiddot issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership ca rd Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number)

CLASSIC bull Non-EAA Member - $2400 Includes one year membership in the EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation not included

bull Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $1600 annually which includes 12 issueslAC of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are required to be members of EAA

bull Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $2000 per year which includes a subscription toWARBIRDS Warbirds Newsletter Warbird members are required to be members of EAA

Ultralight Assn is $2500 per year which includes the Ultralight publicationULTRALIGHT bull Membership in the EAA ($1500 additional for Sport Aviation magazine) For current EAA members only $1500 which includes Ultralight publication

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CLASSIFIED CONTINUED WANTED For my Curtiss Wright Junior restoration parts or pieces any condition Contact Gene Chase at EAA Headquarters PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425-4860 or 414425-8851 RANGER - 6-440 zero-time fresh overhaul 6 brand new chrome cylinders ($460 value) New pistons (stanshydard) rings pins valves mags ignition harness etc Log book signed off $3000 firm Write SFM Co P O Box 1524 Torrance California 90505

ACRO SPORT - Single place biplane capable of unshylimited aerobatics 23 sheets of clear easy to follow plans includes nearly 100 isometrical drawings photos and exploded views Complete parts and materials list Full size wing drawings Plans plus 88 page Builders Manual - $6000 Info Pack - $400 Super Acro Sport Wing Drawing - $1500 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

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INFORMATION Leading to an actual engine working drawshyings and technical data on the Roberts 6-X 6-cylinder 2-cycle engine of the 1911-1913 era Needed for a museum replica project For further information contact

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LETTERS Experimental Aircraft Association Inc Attn Ben Owen Executive Director Information Services PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Dear Mr Owen I received with pleasure your letter of May 8 1981

together with a copy of SPORT A VIATION and copies of your April 1979 VINTAGE AIRPLANE That artishycle which you so graciously published has brought letters middotfrom a great many people who either are Belshylanca enthusiasts like me or helped Russell and me in some way in our trip in 1931 It has been a most rewarding experience and I am most indebted to you

One of those persons who has contacted me was Byron Fredericksen and through him my wife and I had the very good fortune to be able to attend the Oshkosh meet last August A most amazing display and a super show

To return to the intent of your letter you stated that Don Varnum Chapter President of 498 wished to present me an Honorary Lifetime Membership in EAA at the dinner in July I am deeply touched to be so honored and accept gratefully the honor from the International EAA Membership

Thank you too for your good wishes I have been greatly blessed with some skill excellent health and many many fine friends No man should ask for more

Sincerely John L Polando Mill Road East Sandwich MA 02537

Editors Note John L Polando and Russell Boardman set a world record for distance when they flew their Bellanca from New York to Istanbul Turkey - July 28shy301931 See story by Mr Polando on page 16 of the April 1979 issue of The VINTAGE AIRPLANE

Dear Sir Enclosed please find a color photograph of my Fairshy

child 24 which you may wish to publish in your magashyzine

The photograph was taken from a 1938 model Fairshychild 24 on return from Oshkosh in August 79 over northern Minnesota

You will notice that my personal card and the logo for our association incorporate the Fairchild 24 design Our museum has nine antique-classic-warbird aircraft all in mint condition in a brand new steel and concrete hangar just south of Edmonton Alberta

Best regards Dr John Bachynski (EAA 139175 AlC 4834) 9303 Saskatchewan Drive Edmonton Alberta T6G 2B3 Canada

Dear Gene Words cannot express the pleasure I derive from

reading re-reading and sometimes drooling over our magazine Only wish at times that it were more volumishynous

A recent business trip to Southern California alshylowed me the opportunity to visit the Tallmantz Museum at John Wayne Airport I was able to spend only Ph hours there as opposed to the couple of days I needed

Possibly could a feature issue give us a good look at this museum

Sincerely Dick Williams (EAA 19176 AlC 1233) 7753 N Camino de Maximillian Tucson AZ 85704

ANTIQUEshyCLASSIC

CHAPTERS

FLORIDA 1 LAKELAND

E A Crosby 2406 Lofberg Drive Jacksonville FL 32216 TELEPHONE (904) 725-3802

MEETING Contact President

MICHIGAN 8 WESTERN

Philip l Coulson RI 2 Box 39B Lawton MI 49065 TElEPHONE (616) 624-6490

MEETING Contact President

MINNESOTA 4 MINNEAPOLIS

Stan Gomoll 1042 90th Lane NE Blaine MN 55434 TELEPHONE (612) 784-1172

MEETING Contact President

NEW JERSEY 7 FLANDERS

AI bert W Douglas 29 Kenneth CI Florham Parll NJ 07932 TELEPHONE (201) 377-8925

MEETING Contact President

NEW YORK 6 ROCHESTER

Will iam Leonard 231 Eugene SI Rochester NY 14606 TELEPHONE (716) 458-2403

MEETING 2nd Tuesday 800 pm Spencerport Air Parll Spencerport

NORTH CAROLINA 3 CHARLOTTE

W W (Bill) Hawkins PO Box 789 Camden SC 29020 TELEPHONE (803) 432-9595

MEETING Contact President OKLAHOMA

10 TULSA Hurley Ie Boehler RI 8 Box 617 Claremore OK 74017 TELEPHONE (918) 341-3772

MEETING 2nd Thursday 730 pm Iliff Aircraft Hangar 17 Tulsa International Airport

PENNSYLVANIA 5 YORK

Paul l Schiding 401 W Marllet SI Yorll PA 17404 TELEPHONE (717) 741-1086

MEETING 4th Thursday 800 pm Shiloh Branch - Yorll Bank Shiloh

TEXAS 2 HOUSTON

J J (Jonsey) Paul 14418 Skinner Road Cypress TX 77429 TELEPHONE (713) 373-0418

MEETING 4th Sunday 200 pm Dry Creek Airport Cyrpess

WASHINGTON 9 SEATTLE

Fred C Ellsworth 17639 SE 293rd Place Kent WA 98031 TELEPHONE (206) 631-9117

MEETING Contact President

20 JULY 1981

CALENDAR OF EVENTS

JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1 - MOMENCE ILLINOIS - Second AIRPLANE NOSTALGIA PHOTO SHOW Over 400 gallery-mounted 8 x 10 photoshygraphs of homebuilt private commercial and military aircraft from the 1920s to the 1950s Admission is free The Hoosegow Art Galshylery 106 North Dixie Highway Momence Illinois 60954 For further information please contact Hugh Butterfield (EM 121478) at the Hoosegow 815472-4990

JULY 3-5 - PORT LAVACA TEXAS - Gulf Coast Sport Aviation Fly-in Calhoun County Airport Sponsored by the Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce EM Chapter 340 and EM AntiqueClassic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce P O Box 528 Port Lavaca TX 77979 512552-2959

JULY 3-5 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual July Fly-in at Antique Airfield including mini-conventions of the newly reformed Air Replicas International International Pietenpol Assn Fairchild Club Luscombe Assn and WW- II PT and Liaison Plane Reunion The entire event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wiley Post and Harold Gattys 1931 around-the-world flight Contact Barry Taylor Rt 2 Box 172 Ottumwa IA 52501 515938-2773

JULY 4 - ROCHESTER MINNESOTA - 3rd Annual Airshow sponsored by the Rochester Area Pilots Association Static display of homeshybuilt aircraft Contact John P Anhalt 2205 Viking Drive NW Rochester MN 55901 or Monte Posey 507937-3348

JULY 4-5 - AEROFLEX-ANDOVER NEW JERSEY - Flanders Valley EM Ant iqueClassic Chapter 7 and EM Chapter 238 Annual FlyshyIn RAIN or SHINE Antiques classics warbirds homebuilts and factory machines welcome Movies food hangar square dance and much more Camping and lodging upon request For further information please contact AI Douglas President 29 Kenneth Court Florham Park NJ 07932 201 377-8925

JULY 10-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Taylorcraft National Fly-in sponsored by Taylorcraft Owners Club at Barbers Field Factory tour hangar flying fly-in breakfast All Taylorcraft owners invited Contact Allan Zollitsch 37 Taft Avenue Lancaster NY 14086 716681-1675

JULY 11-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Annual Taylorcraft Fly-InReunion sponsored by the Taylorcraft Owners Club and the Taylorcraft Old Timers (former and present factory employees) Three miles north of Alliance at Barber Airport For further information please conshytact Bruce Bixler 216823-9748

JULY 11-12 - COLUMBUS INDIANA - The Confederate Air Force will present a MAJOR EFFORT WW II Air Power demonstration and air show at Bakalar Airport Restored military aircraft in aerial displays of historical events of WW II Precision aerobatics by the Christen Eagles and Art Scholl Contact Confederate Air Force Indiana Squadron PO Box 41190 Indianapolis IN 46241

JULY 12 - EASTON PENNSYLVANIA - Fifth Annual Aeronca Fly-in Largest Aeronca Fly-in in the East Fun events SCheduled Easton Airport For further information please contact Jim Polles 299 Nazareth Drive Nazareth PA 18064 215759-3713 Rain date July 19

JULY 17-19 - MINDEN NEBRASKA - 5th Annual National Stinson Club Fly-In at Pioneer Airfield Camping on the field available call 308832-2750 for motel reservations For further information please contact George Leamy 8031576-9698 or Bob Near 402463-9309

JULY 18-19 - BEALETON VIRGINIA - Cub and Aeronca Annual Fly-in at Flying Circus Aerodrome E J L series cubs all Aeroncas Airshow on 19th Contact Hal or Arlene Bogert 10570 Main St B203 Fairfax VA 22030 by July 15 703273-8746

AUGUST 1-8 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 29th Annual EM Fly-In Convention It is never too early to start making plans for the worlds GREATEST AVIATION EVENT

AUGUST 7-9 - LEWISTOWN MONTANA - 4th Annual Montana Chapter AM Fly-In at Beacon Star Antique Airfield For further information please contact Frank Bass Beacon Star Antique Airfield Star Route Moore MT 59464 406538-7616

AUGUST 9 - MENDOTA ILLINOIS - Fly-in breakfast 7 AM till noon in conjunction with the Mendota Sweet Corn Festival Homebuilts antiques and special interest aircraft have separate parking areas Parade at 1 PM Also art show and flea market Contact Phil Buland 804 Sixth Ave Mendota IL 61342 815539-6815

AUGUST 9-15 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - 12th Annual lAC Intershynational Championships

AUGUST 9-15 - PORTLAND OREGON - 13th Annual Convention of The International Cessna 170 Association For further information please contact Robert C Anderson 3307 NE Academy Avenue Portland OR 97200 503253-3449

AUGUST 16-23 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual AMAPM Fly-In AUGUST 23 - WEEDSPORT NEW YORK - Fly-In Antiques classics

and homebuilts welcome Sponsored by EM Chapter 486 Whitsshyford Airport Pancake breakfast air show Field closed 100 pm to 500 pm Intermission for early departures For further informashytion please contact Herb Livingston 1257 Gallagher Road Bald shywinsville NY 13027

AUGUST 28-30 - COFFEYVILLE KS - Funk Fly-In Sponsored by Coffeyville Jaycees For further information please contact George E Lipe PO Box 372 So Coffeyville OK 74072

SEPTEMBER 3-6 - OTTUMWA IOWA - 8th Annual Antique Airmen Fly-In Reunion at Ottumwa Industrial Airport All antiques classics warbirds homebuilts etc welcome For further information contact Gene Aldrich 515684-4744 or Andy Norton 515563-2187

SEPTEMBER 13 - BOLIVAR TENNESSEE - Airshow and Tennessee Forest Festival sponsored by Hardeman County Chamber of Comshymerce Trophies awarded for homebuilts antiques warbirds and ultralights Airshow features Duane and Marion Cole and Ben Morphew Contact Billy Whitehurst PO Box 376 Bolivar TN 38008 1-800-238-6871

SEPTEMBER 17-19 - CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA - Silver Wings 23rd Annual Convention Highlights are old time pilots reunion and air show Firestone Pitts aerobatic team skydiving hot air balloon comedy acts etc All eligible pilots active or retired civil or military welcome Make your reservations now For further information please contact Haskell Deaton Chairman Box 1822 Charlotte NC 28218 or National Headquarters Box 1228 Harrisburg PA 17108

SEPTEMBER 18-19 - LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY - Bowman Field Old-Timers Reunion Anyone active at Bowman Field prior to 1940 please contact Ed Peck Reunion Coordinator 214 Lynnwood Drive Jeffersonville IN 47130 812944-1028

OCTOBER 9-11 - ANDERSON INDIANA - Annual Convention and FlyshyIn sponsored by the International Cessna 120140 Association Inc For further information please contact Frank Hancock 3941 West Cross Street Anderson IN 46011 317643-1593

OCTOBER 16-18 - CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA - Fly-In Antiques Classics Homebuilts Ultralights and Warbirds invited Awards and banquet Saturday night For further information contact Geneva McKiernan 5301 Finsbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

NOVEMBER 21-22 - MIAMI FLORIDA - Antique Classic and Cusshytom Built Exhibit and Fly-In at sixth annual Harvest sponsored by Historical Association of Southern Florida Located at Tamiami Fairgrounds Coral Way at 112th Avenue in Miami Contact Elizashybeth Bookout 305557-5530 or Genie Card 305253-3776

AUTHENTIC

WWI and WWII MILITARYand ANTIQUE

FLYING EQUIPMENT Props-EnRines- Wheels

Helll ets-CURRles- Manuals Suits-Jackets- Parts

BUY - SELL- TRADE Send for our unique catalog listing hundreds of pilal and calleclar needs $500 per year includes revimiddot sions every two months and collecshytors Want Serv ice Just advise us of your needs and when ou r staff finds the item you will be notified of its availabitity a unique new service to those interested in aviation

The Airplane Shop Inc 125 Passaic Ave

Fairfield New Jersey 07006 (201) 736middot9092 575middot9621

YES My $500 is enc losed Pl ease send catalog to

NAME

ADDRESS

TOWN STA TE _ __ ZIP ___

PHONE - AC ~~_~~_-~___~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21

Jacket Unlined Poplin jacket features knit waist and cuffs The gold and white braid trim on a Tan body emphasizes the colors proudly disshyplayed in the AntiqueClassic logo Sizes X-small thru X-large

$2895 ppd

Cap Complete the look in this gold mesh hat with contrasting blue bill trimmed with a gold braid Your logo visibly displayed makes this adjustable cap a must Sizes M amp L (adjustable rear band)

$625 ppd

WEAR the IMAGE in an AntiqueClassic jacket and cap Send Check To

EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC Po Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery

Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

CLASSIFIED ADS ACRO II - The new 2-place aerobatic trainer and sport biplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos exploded views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC PO Box 462 Hales Corshyners WI 53130 414425-4860 POBER PIXIE - VW powered parasol - unlimited in low cost pleasure flying Big roomy cockpit for the over six foot pilot VW power insures hard to beat 3h gph at cruise setting 15 large instruction sheets Plans - $4500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Bex 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

FLYING AND GLIDER MANUALS

1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

250 ea SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO

EAA Air Museum Foundation Inc Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

DERRICK INDUSTRIES INC - Repair Station 464-61 Wooden propeller repair and manufacturing 1565 North Broadway Stockton CA 95205 Phone 209462-7381 WANTED 120 hp upright Gipsy II engine or 145 hp inshyverted Mark 7 engine Need propeller and hub for same Engine must be complete Al Kelch 622 North Madison Avenue Cedarburg WI 53012

AVAILABLE BACK ISSUES

1973 - March through December 1974 - All Are Available 1975 - JulyAugust SeptemberOctober November

December 1976 - January through May August through Decemshy

ber 1977 - All Are Available 1978 - January March through June August October

November 1979 - February through December 1980 - All Are Available 1981 - January through June

Back issues are available from Headquarters for $125 each postpaid except the July 1977 (Lindbergh Comshymemorative) issue which is $150 postpaid

22 JULY 1981

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION bull Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is $2500 for one year $4800 for 2 yearsEAA and $6900 for 3 years All include 12 issues of Sport Aviation per year Junior Membership (under 19

years of age) is available at $1500 annually

bull EAA Member - $1400 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthlyANTIQUEmiddot issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership ca rd Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number)

CLASSIC bull Non-EAA Member - $2400 Includes one year membership in the EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation not included

bull Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $1600 annually which includes 12 issueslAC of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are required to be members of EAA

bull Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $2000 per year which includes a subscription toWARBIRDS Warbirds Newsletter Warbird members are required to be members of EAA

Ultralight Assn is $2500 per year which includes the Ultralight publicationULTRALIGHT bull Membership in the EAA ($1500 additional for Sport Aviation magazine) For current EAA members only $1500 which includes Ultralight publication

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO EAA OR THE DIVISION IN WHICH MEMBERSHIP IS DESIRED ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO EAA OR THE PARTICULAR DIVISION AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS

P O BOX 229 HALES CORNERS WI 53130

CLASSIFIED CONTINUED WANTED For my Curtiss Wright Junior restoration parts or pieces any condition Contact Gene Chase at EAA Headquarters PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425-4860 or 414425-8851 RANGER - 6-440 zero-time fresh overhaul 6 brand new chrome cylinders ($460 value) New pistons (stanshydard) rings pins valves mags ignition harness etc Log book signed off $3000 firm Write SFM Co P O Box 1524 Torrance California 90505

ACRO SPORT - Single place biplane capable of unshylimited aerobatics 23 sheets of clear easy to follow plans includes nearly 100 isometrical drawings photos and exploded views Complete parts and materials list Full size wing drawings Plans plus 88 page Builders Manual - $6000 Info Pack - $400 Super Acro Sport Wing Drawing - $1500 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

WANTED

INFORMATION Leading to an actual engine working drawshyings and technical data on the Roberts 6-X 6-cylinder 2-cycle engine of the 1911-1913 era Needed for a museum replica project For further information contact

John M Van Vleet W31261 Beaver Lake Rd

Hartland WI 53029 Phone (414) 367-6632

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JUNE 1 - SEPTEMBER 1 - MOMENCE ILLINOIS - Second AIRPLANE NOSTALGIA PHOTO SHOW Over 400 gallery-mounted 8 x 10 photoshygraphs of homebuilt private commercial and military aircraft from the 1920s to the 1950s Admission is free The Hoosegow Art Galshylery 106 North Dixie Highway Momence Illinois 60954 For further information please contact Hugh Butterfield (EM 121478) at the Hoosegow 815472-4990

JULY 3-5 - PORT LAVACA TEXAS - Gulf Coast Sport Aviation Fly-in Calhoun County Airport Sponsored by the Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce EM Chapter 340 and EM AntiqueClassic Chapter 2 For further information please contact Port Lavaca Chamber of Commerce P O Box 528 Port Lavaca TX 77979 512552-2959

JULY 3-5 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual July Fly-in at Antique Airfield including mini-conventions of the newly reformed Air Replicas International International Pietenpol Assn Fairchild Club Luscombe Assn and WW- II PT and Liaison Plane Reunion The entire event will commemorate the 50th anniversary of Wiley Post and Harold Gattys 1931 around-the-world flight Contact Barry Taylor Rt 2 Box 172 Ottumwa IA 52501 515938-2773

JULY 4 - ROCHESTER MINNESOTA - 3rd Annual Airshow sponsored by the Rochester Area Pilots Association Static display of homeshybuilt aircraft Contact John P Anhalt 2205 Viking Drive NW Rochester MN 55901 or Monte Posey 507937-3348

JULY 4-5 - AEROFLEX-ANDOVER NEW JERSEY - Flanders Valley EM Ant iqueClassic Chapter 7 and EM Chapter 238 Annual FlyshyIn RAIN or SHINE Antiques classics warbirds homebuilts and factory machines welcome Movies food hangar square dance and much more Camping and lodging upon request For further information please contact AI Douglas President 29 Kenneth Court Florham Park NJ 07932 201 377-8925

JULY 10-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Taylorcraft National Fly-in sponsored by Taylorcraft Owners Club at Barbers Field Factory tour hangar flying fly-in breakfast All Taylorcraft owners invited Contact Allan Zollitsch 37 Taft Avenue Lancaster NY 14086 716681-1675

JULY 11-12 - ALLIANCE OHIO - Annual Taylorcraft Fly-InReunion sponsored by the Taylorcraft Owners Club and the Taylorcraft Old Timers (former and present factory employees) Three miles north of Alliance at Barber Airport For further information please conshytact Bruce Bixler 216823-9748

JULY 11-12 - COLUMBUS INDIANA - The Confederate Air Force will present a MAJOR EFFORT WW II Air Power demonstration and air show at Bakalar Airport Restored military aircraft in aerial displays of historical events of WW II Precision aerobatics by the Christen Eagles and Art Scholl Contact Confederate Air Force Indiana Squadron PO Box 41190 Indianapolis IN 46241

JULY 12 - EASTON PENNSYLVANIA - Fifth Annual Aeronca Fly-in Largest Aeronca Fly-in in the East Fun events SCheduled Easton Airport For further information please contact Jim Polles 299 Nazareth Drive Nazareth PA 18064 215759-3713 Rain date July 19

JULY 17-19 - MINDEN NEBRASKA - 5th Annual National Stinson Club Fly-In at Pioneer Airfield Camping on the field available call 308832-2750 for motel reservations For further information please contact George Leamy 8031576-9698 or Bob Near 402463-9309

JULY 18-19 - BEALETON VIRGINIA - Cub and Aeronca Annual Fly-in at Flying Circus Aerodrome E J L series cubs all Aeroncas Airshow on 19th Contact Hal or Arlene Bogert 10570 Main St B203 Fairfax VA 22030 by July 15 703273-8746

AUGUST 1-8 - OSHKOSH WISCONSIN - 29th Annual EM Fly-In Convention It is never too early to start making plans for the worlds GREATEST AVIATION EVENT

AUGUST 7-9 - LEWISTOWN MONTANA - 4th Annual Montana Chapter AM Fly-In at Beacon Star Antique Airfield For further information please contact Frank Bass Beacon Star Antique Airfield Star Route Moore MT 59464 406538-7616

AUGUST 9 - MENDOTA ILLINOIS - Fly-in breakfast 7 AM till noon in conjunction with the Mendota Sweet Corn Festival Homebuilts antiques and special interest aircraft have separate parking areas Parade at 1 PM Also art show and flea market Contact Phil Buland 804 Sixth Ave Mendota IL 61342 815539-6815

AUGUST 9-15 - FOND DU LAC WISCONSIN - 12th Annual lAC Intershynational Championships

AUGUST 9-15 - PORTLAND OREGON - 13th Annual Convention of The International Cessna 170 Association For further information please contact Robert C Anderson 3307 NE Academy Avenue Portland OR 97200 503253-3449

AUGUST 16-23 - BLAKESBURG IOWA - Annual AMAPM Fly-In AUGUST 23 - WEEDSPORT NEW YORK - Fly-In Antiques classics

and homebuilts welcome Sponsored by EM Chapter 486 Whitsshyford Airport Pancake breakfast air show Field closed 100 pm to 500 pm Intermission for early departures For further informashytion please contact Herb Livingston 1257 Gallagher Road Bald shywinsville NY 13027

AUGUST 28-30 - COFFEYVILLE KS - Funk Fly-In Sponsored by Coffeyville Jaycees For further information please contact George E Lipe PO Box 372 So Coffeyville OK 74072

SEPTEMBER 3-6 - OTTUMWA IOWA - 8th Annual Antique Airmen Fly-In Reunion at Ottumwa Industrial Airport All antiques classics warbirds homebuilts etc welcome For further information contact Gene Aldrich 515684-4744 or Andy Norton 515563-2187

SEPTEMBER 13 - BOLIVAR TENNESSEE - Airshow and Tennessee Forest Festival sponsored by Hardeman County Chamber of Comshymerce Trophies awarded for homebuilts antiques warbirds and ultralights Airshow features Duane and Marion Cole and Ben Morphew Contact Billy Whitehurst PO Box 376 Bolivar TN 38008 1-800-238-6871

SEPTEMBER 17-19 - CHARLOTTE NORTH CAROLINA - Silver Wings 23rd Annual Convention Highlights are old time pilots reunion and air show Firestone Pitts aerobatic team skydiving hot air balloon comedy acts etc All eligible pilots active or retired civil or military welcome Make your reservations now For further information please contact Haskell Deaton Chairman Box 1822 Charlotte NC 28218 or National Headquarters Box 1228 Harrisburg PA 17108

SEPTEMBER 18-19 - LOUISVILLE KENTUCKY - Bowman Field Old-Timers Reunion Anyone active at Bowman Field prior to 1940 please contact Ed Peck Reunion Coordinator 214 Lynnwood Drive Jeffersonville IN 47130 812944-1028

OCTOBER 9-11 - ANDERSON INDIANA - Annual Convention and FlyshyIn sponsored by the International Cessna 120140 Association Inc For further information please contact Frank Hancock 3941 West Cross Street Anderson IN 46011 317643-1593

OCTOBER 16-18 - CAMDEN SOUTH CAROLINA - Fly-In Antiques Classics Homebuilts Ultralights and Warbirds invited Awards and banquet Saturday night For further information contact Geneva McKiernan 5301 Finsbury Place Charlotte NC 28211

NOVEMBER 21-22 - MIAMI FLORIDA - Antique Classic and Cusshytom Built Exhibit and Fly-In at sixth annual Harvest sponsored by Historical Association of Southern Florida Located at Tamiami Fairgrounds Coral Way at 112th Avenue in Miami Contact Elizashybeth Bookout 305557-5530 or Genie Card 305253-3776

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Jacket Unlined Poplin jacket features knit waist and cuffs The gold and white braid trim on a Tan body emphasizes the colors proudly disshyplayed in the AntiqueClassic logo Sizes X-small thru X-large

$2895 ppd

Cap Complete the look in this gold mesh hat with contrasting blue bill trimmed with a gold braid Your logo visibly displayed makes this adjustable cap a must Sizes M amp L (adjustable rear band)

$625 ppd

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EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC Po Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery

Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

CLASSIFIED ADS ACRO II - The new 2-place aerobatic trainer and sport biplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos exploded views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC PO Box 462 Hales Corshyners WI 53130 414425-4860 POBER PIXIE - VW powered parasol - unlimited in low cost pleasure flying Big roomy cockpit for the over six foot pilot VW power insures hard to beat 3h gph at cruise setting 15 large instruction sheets Plans - $4500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Bex 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

FLYING AND GLIDER MANUALS

1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

250 ea SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO

EAA Air Museum Foundation Inc Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

DERRICK INDUSTRIES INC - Repair Station 464-61 Wooden propeller repair and manufacturing 1565 North Broadway Stockton CA 95205 Phone 209462-7381 WANTED 120 hp upright Gipsy II engine or 145 hp inshyverted Mark 7 engine Need propeller and hub for same Engine must be complete Al Kelch 622 North Madison Avenue Cedarburg WI 53012

AVAILABLE BACK ISSUES

1973 - March through December 1974 - All Are Available 1975 - JulyAugust SeptemberOctober November

December 1976 - January through May August through Decemshy

ber 1977 - All Are Available 1978 - January March through June August October

November 1979 - February through December 1980 - All Are Available 1981 - January through June

Back issues are available from Headquarters for $125 each postpaid except the July 1977 (Lindbergh Comshymemorative) issue which is $150 postpaid

22 JULY 1981

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION bull Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is $2500 for one year $4800 for 2 yearsEAA and $6900 for 3 years All include 12 issues of Sport Aviation per year Junior Membership (under 19

years of age) is available at $1500 annually

bull EAA Member - $1400 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthlyANTIQUEmiddot issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership ca rd Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number)

CLASSIC bull Non-EAA Member - $2400 Includes one year membership in the EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation not included

bull Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $1600 annually which includes 12 issueslAC of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are required to be members of EAA

bull Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $2000 per year which includes a subscription toWARBIRDS Warbirds Newsletter Warbird members are required to be members of EAA

Ultralight Assn is $2500 per year which includes the Ultralight publicationULTRALIGHT bull Membership in the EAA ($1500 additional for Sport Aviation magazine) For current EAA members only $1500 which includes Ultralight publication

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO EAA OR THE DIVISION IN WHICH MEMBERSHIP IS DESIRED ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO EAA OR THE PARTICULAR DIVISION AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS

P O BOX 229 HALES CORNERS WI 53130

CLASSIFIED CONTINUED WANTED For my Curtiss Wright Junior restoration parts or pieces any condition Contact Gene Chase at EAA Headquarters PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425-4860 or 414425-8851 RANGER - 6-440 zero-time fresh overhaul 6 brand new chrome cylinders ($460 value) New pistons (stanshydard) rings pins valves mags ignition harness etc Log book signed off $3000 firm Write SFM Co P O Box 1524 Torrance California 90505

ACRO SPORT - Single place biplane capable of unshylimited aerobatics 23 sheets of clear easy to follow plans includes nearly 100 isometrical drawings photos and exploded views Complete parts and materials list Full size wing drawings Plans plus 88 page Builders Manual - $6000 Info Pack - $400 Super Acro Sport Wing Drawing - $1500 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

WANTED

INFORMATION Leading to an actual engine working drawshyings and technical data on the Roberts 6-X 6-cylinder 2-cycle engine of the 1911-1913 era Needed for a museum replica project For further information contact

John M Van Vleet W31261 Beaver Lake Rd

Hartland WI 53029 Phone (414) 367-6632

DRESS IT UP

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lIatea I N T E RIO R All Items READY-MADE for Ea~y

DO-ITmiddot YOURSELF INSTALLATION Seat Upholstery - Wall Panels

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Ceconite Envelopes and Dopes

-Send for FREE Catalog Fabric Selelaquolion Guide middot $300

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23

Jacket Unlined Poplin jacket features knit waist and cuffs The gold and white braid trim on a Tan body emphasizes the colors proudly disshyplayed in the AntiqueClassic logo Sizes X-small thru X-large

$2895 ppd

Cap Complete the look in this gold mesh hat with contrasting blue bill trimmed with a gold braid Your logo visibly displayed makes this adjustable cap a must Sizes M amp L (adjustable rear band)

$625 ppd

WEAR the IMAGE in an AntiqueClassic jacket and cap Send Check To

EAA ANTIQUECLASSIC DIVISION INC Po Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery

Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

CLASSIFIED ADS ACRO II - The new 2-place aerobatic trainer and sport biplane 20 pages of easy to follow detailed plans Comshyplete with isometric drawings photos exploded views Plans - $8500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC PO Box 462 Hales Corshyners WI 53130 414425-4860 POBER PIXIE - VW powered parasol - unlimited in low cost pleasure flying Big roomy cockpit for the over six foot pilot VW power insures hard to beat 3h gph at cruise setting 15 large instruction sheets Plans - $4500 Info Pack - $400 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Bex 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

FLYING AND GLIDER MANUALS

1929 1930 1931 1932 1933

250 ea SEND CHECK OR MONEY ORDER TO

EAA Air Museum Foundation Inc Box 469 Hales Corners WI 53130

Allow 4-6 Weeks For Delivery Wisconsin Residents Include 4 Sales Tax

DERRICK INDUSTRIES INC - Repair Station 464-61 Wooden propeller repair and manufacturing 1565 North Broadway Stockton CA 95205 Phone 209462-7381 WANTED 120 hp upright Gipsy II engine or 145 hp inshyverted Mark 7 engine Need propeller and hub for same Engine must be complete Al Kelch 622 North Madison Avenue Cedarburg WI 53012

AVAILABLE BACK ISSUES

1973 - March through December 1974 - All Are Available 1975 - JulyAugust SeptemberOctober November

December 1976 - January through May August through Decemshy

ber 1977 - All Are Available 1978 - January March through June August October

November 1979 - February through December 1980 - All Are Available 1981 - January through June

Back issues are available from Headquarters for $125 each postpaid except the July 1977 (Lindbergh Comshymemorative) issue which is $150 postpaid

22 JULY 1981

MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION bull Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is $2500 for one year $4800 for 2 yearsEAA and $6900 for 3 years All include 12 issues of Sport Aviation per year Junior Membership (under 19

years of age) is available at $1500 annually

bull EAA Member - $1400 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthlyANTIQUEmiddot issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership ca rd Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number)

CLASSIC bull Non-EAA Member - $2400 Includes one year membership in the EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation not included

bull Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $1600 annually which includes 12 issueslAC of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are required to be members of EAA

bull Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $2000 per year which includes a subscription toWARBIRDS Warbirds Newsletter Warbird members are required to be members of EAA

Ultralight Assn is $2500 per year which includes the Ultralight publicationULTRALIGHT bull Membership in the EAA ($1500 additional for Sport Aviation magazine) For current EAA members only $1500 which includes Ultralight publication

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO EAA OR THE DIVISION IN WHICH MEMBERSHIP IS DESIRED ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO EAA OR THE PARTICULAR DIVISION AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS

P O BOX 229 HALES CORNERS WI 53130

CLASSIFIED CONTINUED WANTED For my Curtiss Wright Junior restoration parts or pieces any condition Contact Gene Chase at EAA Headquarters PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425-4860 or 414425-8851 RANGER - 6-440 zero-time fresh overhaul 6 brand new chrome cylinders ($460 value) New pistons (stanshydard) rings pins valves mags ignition harness etc Log book signed off $3000 firm Write SFM Co P O Box 1524 Torrance California 90505

ACRO SPORT - Single place biplane capable of unshylimited aerobatics 23 sheets of clear easy to follow plans includes nearly 100 isometrical drawings photos and exploded views Complete parts and materials list Full size wing drawings Plans plus 88 page Builders Manual - $6000 Info Pack - $400 Super Acro Sport Wing Drawing - $1500 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

WANTED

INFORMATION Leading to an actual engine working drawshyings and technical data on the Roberts 6-X 6-cylinder 2-cycle engine of the 1911-1913 era Needed for a museum replica project For further information contact

John M Van Vleet W31261 Beaver Lake Rd

Hartland WI 53029 Phone (414) 367-6632

DRESS IT UP

WITH A NEW

lIatea I N T E RIO R All Items READY-MADE for Ea~y

DO-ITmiddot YOURSELF INSTALLATION Seat Upholstery - Wall Panels

Headliners - Carpets - etc

Ceconite Envelopes and Dopes

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MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION bull Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is $2500 for one year $4800 for 2 yearsEAA and $6900 for 3 years All include 12 issues of Sport Aviation per year Junior Membership (under 19

years of age) is available at $1500 annually

bull EAA Member - $1400 Includes one year membership in EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthlyANTIQUEmiddot issues of The Vintage Airplane and membership ca rd Applicant must be a current EAA member and must give EAA membership number)

CLASSIC bull Non-EAA Member - $2400 Includes one year membership in the EAA Antique-Classic Division 12 monthly issues of The Vintage Airplane one year membership in the EAA and separate membership cards Sport Aviation not included

bull Membership in the International Aerobatic Club Inc is $1600 annually which includes 12 issueslAC of Sport Aerobatics All lAC members are required to be members of EAA

bull Membership in the Warbirds of America Inc is $2000 per year which includes a subscription toWARBIRDS Warbirds Newsletter Warbird members are required to be members of EAA

Ultralight Assn is $2500 per year which includes the Ultralight publicationULTRALIGHT bull Membership in the EAA ($1500 additional for Sport Aviation magazine) For current EAA members only $1500 which includes Ultralight publication

MAKE CHECKS PAYABLE TO EAA OR THE DIVISION IN WHICH MEMBERSHIP IS DESIRED ADDRESS ALL LETTERS TO EAA OR THE PARTICULAR DIVISION AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS

P O BOX 229 HALES CORNERS WI 53130

CLASSIFIED CONTINUED WANTED For my Curtiss Wright Junior restoration parts or pieces any condition Contact Gene Chase at EAA Headquarters PO Box 229 Hales Corners WI 53130 414425-4860 or 414425-8851 RANGER - 6-440 zero-time fresh overhaul 6 brand new chrome cylinders ($460 value) New pistons (stanshydard) rings pins valves mags ignition harness etc Log book signed off $3000 firm Write SFM Co P O Box 1524 Torrance California 90505

ACRO SPORT - Single place biplane capable of unshylimited aerobatics 23 sheets of clear easy to follow plans includes nearly 100 isometrical drawings photos and exploded views Complete parts and materials list Full size wing drawings Plans plus 88 page Builders Manual - $6000 Info Pack - $400 Super Acro Sport Wing Drawing - $1500 Send check or money order to ACRO SPORT INC Box 462 Hales Corners WI 53130 414 425-4860

WANTED

INFORMATION Leading to an actual engine working drawshyings and technical data on the Roberts 6-X 6-cylinder 2-cycle engine of the 1911-1913 era Needed for a museum replica project For further information contact

John M Van Vleet W31261 Beaver Lake Rd

Hartland WI 53029 Phone (414) 367-6632

DRESS IT UP

WITH A NEW

lIatea I N T E RIO R All Items READY-MADE for Ea~y

DO-ITmiddot YOURSELF INSTALLATION Seat Upholstery - Wall Panels

Headliners - Carpets - etc

Ceconite Envelopes and Dopes

-Send for FREE Catalog Fabric Selelaquolion Guide middot $300

Il~P~J~ bullbullbullbull259 Lowr Morrisville Rd---=-=- I VISA middot1 FoIIington Po 19054 r~ i (215) 295-4115 l ~

VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23