VA-Vol-27-No-8-Aug-1999

STRAIGHT amp LEVEU Espie Butch Joyce

2 AlC NEWS

3 AEROMAIL

4 VAA WORK PARTY WEEKEND

5 THIRTY FIVE YEARS AT THE OUTER MARKER Dutch Redfield

10 WRONG WAY CORRIGAN REMEMBERED John Underwood

14 POPs ROCKET H G Frautschy

18 TIME - BUILDER DELUXE Budd Davisson

22 MYSTERY PLANE HG Frautschy

24 PASS IT TO BUCK E E Buck Hilbert

27 WELCOME NEW MEMBERS

28 CALENDAR

Publisher TOM POBEREZNY

Editor-in-Chief JACK COX

Editor HENRY G FRAUTSCHY

Managing Editor GOLDA COX

Contributing Editor JOHN UNDERWOOD

Computer Graphic Specialists BETH BLANCK

Photography Staff JIM KOEPNICK LEEANN ABRAMS MARK SCHAIBLE

AdvertisingEditorial Assistant ISABELLE WISKE

SEE PAGE 30 FOR FURTHER VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INFORMATION

STRAIGHT amp LEVEL by ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE

PRESIDENT VINTAGE AIRCRAR ASSOCIATION

I love my little Luscombe and enjoy flying it a lot but I also have a business plane I use on a regular basis It was looking a bit ragged recently (Okay I hear you - sometime it looked downright tired) The Baron has been at the paint shop since I dropped it off at Hawk Aircraft Painting located at the Vandenshyburg airport in Tampa FL I dropped it off during Sun n Fun and I picked it up a couple of weeks ago They did a very fine job The paint scheme is a custom design I had been working on for several years For most of us it is a few years between paint jobs and you forget about little things you watch for Rain for instance

It seems that every time I have flown the Baron since the new paint job I have had to deal with rain showers Its been a contest between Mother Nature and myselfto see ifI will be able to keep all of that new paint in place Ill keep you posted on how the score is going

Unfortunately there s been some sad news related to the deaths of some well known aviators most notably Don Engen the head of the National Air amp Space Museum and Apollo l2 and Skylab astronaut Charles Pete Conrad In our immediate comshymunity noted aviation artist Sam Lyons was involved in an accident while returning from the Piper gathering in Lock Haven PA He had an accident with his Piper J-3 and sadly he lost his wife Vickie in the crash and was himself badly injured Sam is on the long road to recovery We all are saddened by Sams loss and wish him a speedy recovery

While these losses were the result of accidents the passing over the past year of Stan Gomoll and George York were due in part to our aging as a group It seems Ive had to write about this sort of thing more often recently as we all get older It is most imshyportant that each of us educate some of the younger people hanging around the airport about the fun education and pure pleasure that comes from owning and flying the older aircraft Lets share our enthusiasm

One of the greatest benefits new and younger pilots can receive by becoming a member of the Vintage Aircraft Association is the education about our class of aircraft by reading the membership magazine Vintage Airplane

Sure other newsstand magazines do occasionally have an artishycle or two about Antiques Classics and Contemporary aircraft but they often dont do it as well or have the heart it takes to cover it as we do for you our members The more people you enshycourage to join the Vintage Aircraft Association the more you as a member will benefit as well

In this months Vintage Airplane we offer an article about the Johnson Rocket which is owned by Leonard McGinty This aircraft has been beautifully restored and was the first Johnson

Rocket ever built While the few other Rockets built are Classic airplanes when judged this one qualifies as an Antique as it was built during 1942 well before the September I 1945 cutoff date Leonard even tries to keep this aircraft out of the rain on the ground I would too

John Underwood will be writing future articles for your pleashysure and this month his contribution is a very interesting article on Doug Wrong Way Corrigan You can look forward to more inshyteresting and informative articles by John Were also proud to announce well be treated to the writing skills of Budd Davisson I have had the pleasure of knowing Budd for a number of years Ive read his articles with great interest in other magazines and look forward to his writings in Vintage Airplane on a regular bashysis Enjoy There will be more to come from him

Ill be writing more about the happenings at EAA AirVenture 99 in the September issue For some ofyou reading this at the anshynual Fly-In and Convention Id like to welcome you and encourage you to interact with your Directors and Officers Check at the Information booth in the V AA Headquarters Red Bam and theyll be able to direct you to the right person

For the vast majority of you this is your vacation trip and as volunteers were here to help everyone have fun and enjoy the show If there is any way any of your Officers Directors Advishysors and Chairmen can help your stay be more pleasant please let us know

You can always find me by checking in at the Red Bam If I am not there you can always reach me by cell phone which the volunteers at the Info Desk can call for you Next to the Red Bam are two stationary events you do not want to miss The first is the tent where you will fmd helpful information regarding rebuilding projects Also in this area is an ongoing metal shaping demo where you can get hands-on experience too Right next door is the Type Club headquarters where for many of you you can kibshyitz with your favorite type club folks

Finally Id like to close with some great news Some of you may know that long-time Director Jeannie Hills husband Dick has been very ill for the past year and he required a very serious operation in order to regain his health The latest report I have reshyceived is that he has had this operation performed and is on the road to recovery I am very happy to hear this news and wish him the best Should you wish to drop Dick a note you can do so at the following address

Dick Hill PO Box 328 Harvard IL 60033 Were pulling for you Dick and Jeannie Lets all pull in same direction for the good of aviation Reshy

member we are better together Join us and have it all

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VAANEWS compiled by HG Frautschy

500000 YOUNG EAGLES Steve Buss EAAs Director ofthe Young

Eagles Program has announced that the 500000th Young Eagle has been entered in the Worlds Largest Logbook The mileshystone was reached by the flight of Young Eagle Steven Ward of Medina Ohio 10shyyear-old Steven was flown on International Young Eagles Day (June 12 1999) by longshytime Flight Leader Leroy Tunnell of Akron Ohio Leroy has been with the Young Eashygles Program since August of 1992 and has personally flown nearly 500 Young Eagles Our congratulations to Leroy and to all of you who have given your time and talents to the Young Eagles Program we also say Thanks

SOUTH WEST REGIONAL FLY-IN wwwswrficomis the new web site adshy

dress for the EAA South West Regional Fly-In and it is chock full of all sorts of inshyformation on the event which takes place October 14-16 and will include an airshow as well as access to the Dyess Air Force

THE COVERS

FRONT COVER When he was 14 years old Len McGinty just knew hed own aJohnson Rocket and sure enough he has one now His is the prototype and is the only one of the 18 or 19 built with aconventional landing gear EM photo by Mark Schaible shot with aCanon EOS1 nequipped with an 80-200 mm lens EAA Cessna 210 photo plane flown by Bruce Moore

BACK COVER To commemorate the arrival at EM AirVenture 99 of one of the Go lden Ages most beloved deshysigns we present the artwork of Bob OHara Airport Kids First FlightshyPietenpol Camper is apen and inkwashytercolor illustration featuring one of the fi rst plans-bu iIt homebu iIts Bern ie Pietenpols handy little flivver powered by a Ford Model Aengine You can reach Bob at PO Box 1438 Georgeshytown CA 95634

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Base Open House on Sunday Pilots who fly to SWRFI will be able to fly into Dyess AFB after attending an approach and arrival briefing There will be a performance of the Air Force Thunderbirds at the Dyess AFB Open House

For information see the SWRFI web site or call 800727-7704

BIPLANE FLY-IN AWARDS The National Biplane Associations Bishy

plane Expo as staged in Bartlesville OK on June 4-5 was highly successful according to its chairman Charles W Harris and Expo Director Virgil Gaede

The wide variety of biplanes aircraft disshyplays exhibits forums tributes Biplane Museum tours and awards provided continshyuous interest to the attending pilots and aviation buffs

Some 309 aircraft of all types attended during the twothree day event 95 of which were biplanes

Biplanes from all parts of the nation atshytended including those from New Jersey California Washington Georgia as well as the Gulf coast The Longest Distance in an Open Cockpit Biplane award went to pilot Gary Fasnacht and ownerpassenger Ron Smyth who flew more than 1700 miles from Olympia WA in Ronnies beautiful 1940 N2S2 Stearman N59463 Mr Smyth who is an avid aviation and flying booster is blind

While the biplanes were the prime focus of the annual Expo the 1999 honored guest Paul W Tibbets Jr Brigadier General USAF ret and pilot of the legendary B-29 Enola Gay commanded extraordinary attenshytion General Tibbets was hosted at a dinner in his honor on Thursday evening June 3 and again in an honors tribute to him on June 4 General Tibbets proved to be an exshytraordinarily popular personality with the biplane owners and pilots

EAA Vintage Aircraft Directors attendshying included Buck Hilbert Fleet owner Phil Coulson Waco owner Charlie Harris Pitts owner Gene Morris former Travel Air owner Dale Gustafson Stearman project owner Gene Chase and former directors Ke lly Viets Travel Air owner and Jack Winthrop Waco owner

The National Biplane Association was formed in 1987 and is dedicated to the preservation and the historical legacy ofbishyplane aircraft

Information on the National Biplane Asshysoc is available at PO Box 470350 Tulsa OK 74147 918665-0755 and on their web site at wwwbiplaneexpocom

The awards presented include

Open Cockpit Grand Champion 1928 Laird LCB-200 NC 6906 Bob Howie Decatur lL Ken Love pilot

Open Cockpit Reserve Grand Champion 1930 Waco RNF N686Y Bob Howie Decatur lL

Cabin Biplane Grand Champion 1939 Waco YKS-7 N20905 Grapevine TX

Cabin Biplane Reserve Grand Champion 1937 Waco YKS-7 NC17474 Mark Harter Belleville lL

Robert P Moore Memorial Award 1941 Boeing A75NI N5635V Ken Volk Argyle TX

Chairmans Choice Award 1940 Navy N3N-3 N45033 Russ Mayberry Owner Ft Collins CO Dale Miller Pilot

DON ENGEN Don Engen (EAA 579174) longtime

aviation enthusast and the current head of the National Air and Space Museum was killed in the in-flight breakup of a motorshyglider in which he was passenger Also killed in the crash was Soaring Society of America member and well-known soaring pilot William Evans (EAA 373684)

Engen started his aviation career in the CPT program as a young naval recruit and soloed a J-3 Cub on August 6 1942 He went on to a long career as a Naval Officer retiring as a vice admiral as deputy CIC-Atshylantic Command and US Atlantic Fleet

He served as the Piper Aircrafts genshyeral manager as well as careers with the NTSB and with AOPA and became the FAA Administrator in 1984 during the Reagan administration

Perhaps Don Engens most lasting legacy in aviation will be the groundwork he had been laying for the construction of the Dulles annex of the NASM which he has headed since 1996 Envisioned as a complex able to house the massive aircraft which comprise a portion of the NASM inventory the annex will also include restoration shops completing the NASM which is the most popular mushyseum in Washington DC far outpacing the other museums in terms of attendence His vision and leadership on that project will be sorely missed

MORE ON LINDBERGH Mr Lee Ballard HG et aI I very much appreciate your

taking the time to comment on what I wrote about Bergs book and to add a bit more to my Lindbergh logs Always glad to know somebody reads my stuff and the comments on his flights in the F-80Bs were a bonus

However I have to tell you that CAL did indeed resign his commission in the Air Corps Reshyserve Had he not done so FDR undoubtedly would have found a way to terminate his services This did not stop him from flyshying military aircraft as a tech rep for various companies

Lindbergh logged his first jet time in the YP-59A at Patuxent River Naval Air Station on or about 16 October 1944 at night He didnt want to buck the line and by the time his turn came up it was dark

He first flew the P-80A at Eglin AFB on 7 March 1948 logging one 50-minute flight The next day he flew the FP-80 for 45 minutes

I wish there was some way to pin down the date CAL flew your F-80Bs Likewise a copy of his sign-off would be a treasure Im going to undertake a search to see if by chance the AF archives contain records not previously acshycessed

Sincerely John Underwood Glendale CA

E-2 PROSE Dear Butch Enclosed is a poem my wife

Mignon wrote about our E-2 Tayshylor Cub SIN 27 NC12607 borne October 10 1931 It was rebuilt by Carl Lindsey a few years back He lives in Circleville Ohio This

Silver Clouds and Green Fields

The clouds were silver The fields were green A father and son Pushed out their machine An B-2 Cub As trim as could be With a Continental engine running free

With son in the cockpitshyDad spinning the prop The engine started and ran like a top A grass strip in the country Where free men can fly For the pure joy of flying As in days long gone by - Mignon Beight Taylor 1997

aircraft is powered by Continental A-40 SIN 650 It runs well and is flown regularly Its not fast (60 mileshour) but is a real fun bird to fly It is currently hangared in New Middletown Ohio on our farm but is usually hangared in New Carlisle Ohio near Dayton Ohio

I had seen some very nice poshyems published in VINTAGE AIRPLANE magazine and thought you might like to add this to your collection maybe even put it in one of your issues

Sincerely Bob Taylor Tipp City OH

A NOTE OF THANKS

Dear Folks As a pilot who counts his tail wheel

hours in the hundreds rather than the thousands thanks to Mr Gomoll for this article on tailwheel flying in the June issue I and perhaps others could benefit from more shared observations on the nuances of tailwheel operations which those with more experience might be willing to share

Best Regards Mike Merlo VAA28340 ChicagoIL

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VAA Work party Weekend VAA Volunteer Power Gets the Job Done by Bob Brauer

Over the weekend of June 12 fourteen volunteers rained down onto our Oshkosh facilities from all directions to give of their talents and to challenge the elements - rain heat humidity and what was left was the finest central Wisshyconsin weather you could imagine

Everyone was on hand all three days to work a variety of tasks including paint touch up ( a couple of gallons worth) eight new windows for the sales area and a bridge over the creek south of the V AA Headquarters near the Antique showers Director John Berendt was the dirt doctor heading up the bridge effort and ended the effort by proclaiming Its a Bridge

Activities were painting caulking nailing unneeded openings shut prying required areas open and everything in between

When I look at our checklist of things that had to be done that weekend we acshycomplished most of what we set out to do A little sweat and lots of satisfaction and smiles did it all Given our high exshypectations it taint bad

Accommodations were in the EAA Volunteer bunkhouse or whatever suited the volunteer depending on their circumshystances When it came to feeding our fold on Friday and Saturday evenings we enjoyed the greatest gourmet hospitality of Bob Lumley and Paul Poberezny We sure had a great time together

For more good volunteer times there are a lot more tasks to do If youre readshying this at EAA AirVenture feel free to stop at the Volunteer Booth and let us know when youre available or check with us for projects slated later in the year and next spring

VAA Work Weekend Roster John Berendt Cannon Falls MN Tim

Fox Ft Wayne IN Clair Dahl Rolling Prairie MN Don Christensen Albert Lea MN Clete Cisler Green Bay WI Bob Lumley Brookfield WI Bob Brauer Chicago IL Dale Gustafson Inshydianapolis IN Phil Blake Albert Lea MN Roger Gomoll Rochester MN Dick Mouldenhauer Brookfield WI Mary McClaud Delafield WI Georgia Schneider Milwaukee WI Geoff Robishyson New Haven IN

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-IIIIII Tim Fox (left) and Phil Blake spent some of their time forming concrete

Mary McCiaud Dick Mouldenhauer and (Iete Cisler all put in time with paint brushshyes after the new windows were installed

The crew tests the new pedestrian bridge shywe hope everybody finds it useful

bull bull I - ears

att Outer Marker

The last segment in the series of Dutch Redfields early career in aviation during the

heady years before WW-II

Barnstorming and Winter Fun Except for a few odd jobs my first

and former boss at Salt City Aviation had been an unemployed aviator ever since the company had boarded its doors closed to business

On a late summer day Mac came to see my new boss Bill Heffernan to arrange chartering the black and red Waco F for a flight north for a day of barnstorming at the Canton Fair in upstate New York A few days later Jim Heffernan (Bills brother) and I climbed into the small front cockpit of the Waco to help Mac sell sightseeshying flights at the fair

We had a very busy day Mac carshyried many passengers and at sunset it was decided to call it quits It was an hours flight home and Jim and I sugshygested putting some gas in before we left but without shutting down the engine or leaving the cockpit Mac looked at the two gauges suspended from the upper wing center section and announced that we had sufficient fuel They did show full however the gauges were at the very back of the tanks and a few minutes later when we were airborne and leveled off on our heading home they read only 18 full and were bouncing on the bottom We kept going

Being late summer darkness was falling rapidly Over our shoulders we could see Mac behind us in the rear cockpit eying the gauges with a now concerned look Suddenly he snapped the throttle back and shouted forward Were going to have to land while I can see something

See something In the fast-fading light all I could see was dark forest below With what light there was I just didnt know how Mac ever was going to find a clearing and 1 could see but little during the descent as front cockpit occupants sat very low in the Wacos forward cockpit But Jim who was 6 foot 3 sat high enough and was able to see a little bit anyway His reports of The fields too short Does he see the apple tree I hope he misses those boulders etc did little to ease my anxiety

We just cleared a low fence and with a whump we were firmly down As the landing gear picked up its load the sounds coming from unshyderneath were frightful as the Waco rolled skidded bounced and banged across the rocky and very un level clearing and finally in a 180-degree ground loop with the lower wing tip just brushing the grass tops came to a halt with the right lower wing only

inches from a heavy rail fence The Warner ticked over in its usual beautishyful idle

Mac said You guys go get me ten gallons of any kind of gas you can find and get back here as fast as you can But first in the failing light Jim and 1 walked at the wing tips and careshyfully led him as he taxied the F on a very zigzag route around clumps of rocks and very rough terrain back to what was thought by all of us to be the best side of the clearing from which to start a takeoff How Mac had ever avoided these obstacles on landing and almost in the dark I dont know Perhaps it was luck

Jim and I left Mac and the now silent Waco and trudged up a winding dirt road in the dark We were soon banging on the door of a lantern-illushyminated farm where we persuaded a farmer to drive us in his Ford Model A truck a few miles down the road to a nearby four corners general store which he told us had a gasoline pump Here we slowly hand-pumped ten galshylons of Blue Sunoco into our tins then went back in and paid the grocer who was closing up for the night

While we were gone Mc Glynn in the dark had methodically walked over his intended takeoff path across

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the small clearing tossing aside some smaller rocks tree branches and kicking level large clods of dirt By himself he had carefully repositioned the Waco so it headed down this best path

In the beams of the farmers truck I perched on the forward spar of the upper-wing center secshytion and poured in the two five-gallon tins of fuel that Jim hoisted to me When completed Mac said to us Im making this takeoff alone you fellows get home the best way you can Then he clambered into the rear cockpit lit a fresh cigarette and snugged his belt tight as I pulled the proshypeller through to start the engine

Jim and I were filled with apshyprehension as we leaned against the top fence rail just outside of the prop stream while Mac warmed up the popping Warner At last he was ready and gave us a slight wave as he opened the throtshytle wide then released the brakes

We were directly behind now as the Waco bumped and trundled away rapidly picking up speed with its light load We could smell the warm comshybustion smells and perceive the perfect ring of blue exhaust flames and the trails of hot carbon sparks emanating from the now fast-receding cherry red exhaust stacks of each of the Warners seven cylinders

There were no running lights beshycause their hotshot dry battery was long ago dead from disuse Faintly outlined in the exhausts receding flickering glow were framed the inshyboard portions of the upper and lower wing panels with their bracing struts and wires As the plane jounced and smashed and slammed across the small clearing Macs helmeted head could be seen alternately peering out one side then the other while the lowered elevators raised the small tail wheel but a few inches so the rapidly accelerating supporting wings could ease Macs wild ride

Finally everything seemed to smooth out as the flickering ring of blue was seen to climb and rapidly dishyminish in size But there was no turn back or traditional buzzing of the field and the Waco turned south and quickly disappeared in the night Jim and I thumbed rides to the nearest town where we caught a midnight bus We

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carbon sparks emanating from

the now fast-receding cherry red

exhaust stacks of each of the

Warners seven cylinders

arrived home at 3 am The next day the airplane was in its

usual spot in the hangar Except for much spattered mud that took a while to clean off the airplane was unharmed

Besides my association with Hefshyfernan Flying Service I was also doing any kind of work on anyones airplane that might need doing anyshything that would earn me even a few minutes flying time

If I was owed any flying and one of these planes that I had worked on had been out flying and already warmed up Id be awaiting its return and ofshyten be able to get in a short flight before it was pushed back in the hangar I might be owed for a valve setting job a rocker arm grease job a mud cleaning job sick passenger cleanup or whatever

In a little over a year and a half by dint of my own efforts I had accumushylated the necessary 40 hours for my Private Pilot License My logbook shows that very few of my flights exshyceeded 15 or 20 minutes In March 1935 I took the flight test

At this stage I had flying time in 15 different airplanes- Bird biplane two different Waco Fs Buhl Air Sedan Taylor Cub trainer Aeronca trainer Lycoming powered Stinson Junior cabin monoplane Fleet bishyplane New Standard biplane J-5

Wright-powered Stinson cabin monoplane Wright-powered Waco straight wing biplane Curshytiss Robin cabin monoplane deHavilland Moth biplane Stinshyson Reliant cabin monoplane and a Waco cabin biplane

The Private Pilots flight test in 1935 amounted to spin recovery demonstrations three spot landshyings then a short flight with the Department of Commerce Aeroshynautical Inspector It was customary for the inspector to first observe your spins and your spot landings from a safe spot on the ground then he would climb in and go flying with you

Heffernans Waco F which I wished to use for the major part of my flight check just would not do a good tail spin It fought you all the way resulting in a majesshytic tight spiral that bore little resemblance to an actual spin Ernie Hannam allowed me use of his Standard biplane for the spin

portion of my check It was desigshynated as a trainer and spun and recovered beautifully

To precipitate a tail spin engine power is reduced to idle then the exshyisting altitude held by gradually increasing the wings angle of attack to the diminishing airstreams continshyuing until speed is insufficient for further lift and controlled flight The wings stall and with a shudder the nose falls despite full nose up elevashytor and the control stick full back

At this point full rudder in the deshysired direction of spin is applied and diving rotation in a full stall comshymences as the wing falls then continues to fall away from the airshyplanes longitudinal axis This is referred to as auto rotation and will continue as long as full up elevator and full rudder are held A shuddershying corkscrewing tail-high rapidly rotating descent at very high descent rate occurs

While spinning orientation is quite difficult as the terrain below and about is quite blurred To stop a spin nose down elevator is applied this despite the already rotational diving attitude and at the same time opposite rudder to direction of spin is used The wings are thus again presented to the airstreams at a now-reduced angle of attack which is sufficient for resumpshy

tion of lift and responsive flight and spin rotation stops with the airplane in a steep but slow speed dive from which level flight is easily resumed

Precision spins as called for on the flight test require that recovery be made on the same heading or a headshying exactly opposite that entered after one one and a half two or three turns

Following demonstration of my spins in Ernie s Standard I climbed into the Waco F to fly the rest of my test The inspector laid out a large cardboard marker on the grass and I was told while at 1000 feet and flying downwind abeam the airport and this marker I was to close the throttle and with idling engine make turning and descent adjustments so as to glide unshypowered to touchdown within a few feet of the mark Side slips an effecshytive means of rapidly losing altitude without gaining airspeed were pershymitted but it was understood that use of the idling engine was disqualifying Then from 1500 feet and while fly-

into the rear cockpit explained what we were going to next do climbed into the front cockpit of the Waco waggled the controls and pulled his goggles down as we taxied away

Since my first solo I had had very little instruction I had flown around the field accompanied by other pilots while being observed for competency to fly their airplane but I was obshyserved not instructed Many of these checkouts were given by private pilots themselves and they were not instrucshytors In fact there was no such thing as an instructors license for some years to come

We took off and the inspector hand signaled me away from the airport Then he turned and shouted instrucshytions to do something but I didnt understand In frustration he pulled the throttle back and the exhaust popped as the Warner quieted He shouted again Do a pylon eight My gosh I had never done a pylon eight However I made a feeble try

with a few remarks about practicing some pylon eights Later the governshyment and my airline were to require flight checks as a demonstration of airmanship capabilities every six months this continuing over a span of many years To fly well is satisfying to all airmen and I always enjoyed these checks How many other proshyfessions demand that you prove every six months that you can still do it

Merrill Phoenix had been awarded a contract to fly local newspapers to upstate towns when highways were impassable following winter storms and Merrill used the J-5 Whirlwind Stinson for these fl ights because its large diameter wire wheels and narshyrow tires easily cut through deeper snow and drifts Often Barb June or I would accompany him when upstate airports were too badly drifted to risk a landing As Merrill flew low across the field our job was to shove bale afshyter bale of newspapers out the partially opened cabin door

He shouted again liDo a pylon eight My gosh I had never done a pylon eight

ing directly into the wind over the spot I was to make a full 360-degree power-off gliding turn to a landing This was to be followed by an unpowshyered two-turn spiral glide to the landing spot from 2500 feet

Because in those days every time anyone flew they practiced nothing but takeoffs and landings and because I seldom flew flights that were long enough to get very far away from the airport pattern this spot landing part of the test seemed easy to me 1 guess without knowing I had been continushyally practicing for this part of the test on several different airplanes with great variations in glide performance

However let there be no doubt that I did feel the pressure of being watched by the inspector as well as everyone else on the airport When the inspector was in town on his monthly visit from Buffalo there were always big turnouts to observe and shoot the breeze at the corner of the hangar on flight test days And I felt more concern when the Departshyment of Commerce inspector leaned

not having the slightest idea of what I was doing or should do After a few minutes he shook the stick with exasshyperation and took over the controls He then demonstrated a graceful figshyure eight pattern around a barn and then around a tree that he pointed out to me as we circled With carefully planned compensation for the mild crosswind he flew as I had seen a figshyure skater making an eight-shaped pattern on the ice It was nice to watch and he flew the patterns well

He shook the stick again and moshytioned for me to try it This was fun and I seemed to have no trouble flying over the same fence line intersections hay mounds and dirt roads as he had done because as he had flown I had watched his track closely and then flown so as to make good an identical one The pylons happened to stay in the middle of each end of my looping eights as I flew around one pylon then the other

This was an early introduction to flight checks and some precision flyshying I passed this first flight check

I had flown north with him one blowy morning because the drifts had been reported as too deep to risk a landing Merrill had to make several passes past the unoccupied drifted-in hangar outside Watertown while I forced open the cabin door against the powerful propeller stream and pushed bundle after bundle over the side watching them plow to a stop in a cloud of rooster-tailed snow

In a short while we turned south for home and I squeezed back into the wicker seat alongside Merrill to catch my breath But the sky ahead looked very ominous and wide dark streaking bands showed precipitation falling from the clouds The overcast was beshycoming lower and heavier and specks of rain began spattering the windshield in a rising crescendo We were soon flying only a few hundred feet above dark and dense woods Beneath the leafless tree branches silhouetted the grayed white of several feet of older snow mirroring the darkness of the low-hanging bulging clouds and the cold rain just overhead

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We were forced lower and lower by the heavying clouds and the Stinshysons wing knifed through their gray lower fringes The windshield had glazed over and it was now impossishyble to see except out the side cabin windows We were in freezing rain Merrill was intent and grim faced as he flew and the Stinson was not equipped with the basics for instrushyment flying His only flight instrument was a compass which Merrill closely observed dividing his attention out the side window for flight orientation

The Whirlwind sputtered and the control for heat to the carburetor was pulled full out lest the venturied fuel intake passages clog with wet ice starving the cycling cylinders of their vaporized mixtures of combustion The wired wheels skimmed low above the bared treetops as Merrill fought to maintain contact with the ground The wings leading edges and lower surfaces had now become ice sheathed Ice was building rapidly and the powerful lift of the airfoils was steadily weakening as the ugliness of ragged ice deflected and distorted the airstreams curving flows and drag was compounding as the wings attack anshygles to the flowing airstreams were increased for the regaining of lift that was deteriorating due to the steadily dishyminishing airspeed

I held the aeronautical chart for Merrill Although the terrain was flat there was no place to land and we werent sure where we were He conshycentrated on control and held doggedly to his heading while the sluggish airspeed needle showed a new and lower reading every few minshyutes The throttle control was now full in and locked there and the Whirlshywinds nine large cylinders pounded the tubing and fabric airframe with heavy impulses of power The now iced and unbalanced propeller blades shook us with heavy vibrations

Suddenly we broke from scudding clouds into a dry but still gray clouded area of much higher ceiling and with better visibility and iced-over and snow-covered Oneida Lake showed some distance ahead of us in the gray The dark low clouds we had just flown through fell farther and farther behind as Merrill very gently banked the Stinson west toward Syracuse and soon we could see the airport on the

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A backward glance over

the tail showed my tow

crouched low in his flying suit

goggles down and streaking

at the fore of a high rooster

tail across the light

snow-covered ice

other side of town The airplane still burdened with ice was barely able to stay airborne and it shuddered with the buffets that precede wing stall and the big Wright labored under its susshytained full power load

A straight approach to the field had to be made because Merrill could not spare what little wing lift he had left for a lift-devouring drag-inducing cirshycuit of the field We fell over the airport fence still with high engine power The narrow wheels touched down hard and cut through the drifts

Later an outline of the planes planform clearly showed on the hangar floor as the heavy ice melted and dripped from the airframe I pushed the icy water toward a drain with my hangar push-broom

For quite a few years it was a trashyditional and annual event that whenever ice conditions were right a Sunday formation flight of everyone who could go passengers and pilots would head for nearby Oneida Lake for a winter afternoon of bundled-up fun and flying off the frozen lake

This included hot coffee and a sandwich at a shoreside diner imshypromptu spot landing contests tail-chasing races around an offshore island and harmless sideways sliding ground loops to a reversed course

where a short engine blast would bring the now-backwards rolling airplane to an abrupt stop at a preshyset mark

Lashed alongside of his Fleet bishyplane Harold Allen had brought along a pair of snow skis Over a cup of hot chocolate he asked if I might fly his airplane while towing him behind on his skis at the end of a long rope

We spun the prop of the Kinner and after a short roll the Fleet lifted off then I eased the throttle back usshying just enough power to maintain controllable flight a scant few feet above the ice-covered lake A backshyward glance over the tail showed my tow crouched low in his flying suit goggles down and streaking at the fore of a high rooster tail across the light snow-covered ice I quickly turned back concentrating intently upon flying the small two-seater bishyplane only a few feet high and as slowly as possible at a speed barely above wing stall I remember thinkshy

ing that such a low speed for the airplane was still awfully fast for a man traveling on skis

Suddenly I felt the Fleet surge forward as it was freed of the drag of its tow Quickly I banked to see what had happened and as I looked back Allen streaked beneath my now arcshying turning flight I was spellbound by the view and feasted my eyes on a slowly revolving snow spewing five-pointed pinwheel It was a scene of incredible beauty never before seen by man His dark flying-suited body was spread-eagled flat on its back rotating very slowly at the front of an even higher fast-moving rooster tail In a cloud of glistening snow he plowed first with a shoulder then with one leg then the other then the other shoulder then his helmeted head - around and around he went

As he finally slowed I had banked the Fleet back around and into the wind leveled the wings and flared for touchdown As the airplane rolled to a stop full of concern I vaulted out of the cockpit and to his side His heavily-gloved hand was wiping melting snow from his wet face and eyelids and he was struggling to get to his feet I reached down to help him and asked if he was all right He replied with a yell Gee-zuz that was fun Lets try it again

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FROM THE ARCHIVES by HG Frautschy amp Norm Petersen

This photo taken January 151948 of a 1947 Piper J-3 Cub NG653K SIN 22346 was contributed by Chuck Wickman of Oshkosh WI Chucks dad longtime CFI Eddie Wickman of Oshkosh bought the Cub brand new from Piper and flew it home from Lock Haven PA When this photo was taken it had approximately 100 hours total time The picture was taken at the old Ripon Airport three miles northeast of town along highway 44 (Those of you who have flown in to Oshkosh during EM AirVenture might remember the road - for part of the Convention trip inbound from Ripon the highshyway parallels the train tracks you follow to the airport)

You can see the 1930s era Wayne gas pump and the open door to the outhouse (brrr) Mounted on a set of Federal A-1500 skis the Cub served year round flying during the summer on wheels It is now owned by Rodney Elg (EM 11181) of Anchorage AK and Aquila AZ

A brand new small collection of prints has just been added to the EM Aviation Foundations library thanks to cJ Alexander (EM 57898) This shot

shows the Curtiss R3C-l after the engine had been~bull bullbullII changed to a Curtiss V-1550 With the powerplant change the racer was designated a R3C-4

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Renlenlbered The above movie still from The Flying Irishman RKOs re-enactment of Corrigans life shows Doug who played himself with actor Eddie Quillan The film earned him about $64000 the only significant monetary gain from his fame In 1938 dollars this was a small fortune the film is entertaining

In April 1960 willie helping Volmer Jensen display his then new VJ-22 amphibian at a Los Angeles Sports

Arena expo I met Doug Corrigan Against his better judgment hed been persuaded to put his celebrated Curtiss Robin on display Doug had been promised a modest fee for all his troushyble which necessitated assembling and disassembling the aircraft

Corrigan and a whole lot of others were never reimbursed for their efforts and Doug was more than a little put out about it He said that hed had enough of promoters and that the Robin known as Sunshine would never again appear in public We helped him load the Robin on his 2-ton Ford truck and I did not see him again for two decades

Corny dialog notwithstanding

In about 1980 I met Dougs brother Harry who was a retired Douglas enshygineer Doug and Harry were always quite close being only a year apart in age Doug was the oldest They barnshystormed together in the early 1930s and Doug helped Harry get a proper education which he himself had never had He also taught Harry to fly

Id heard that Doug was very much

By John Underwood

10 AUGUST 1999

Sunshine on display at Golden Gate International Expo Treasure Island San Franciso Bay 1939

thing but we soon learned that Doug Corrigan never touched the stuff and moreover could not abide the smell of tobacco anywhere near his person He was very emphatic about that Thats the reason he never ever patronized restaushyrants

I explained to Doug that none of us smoked and that we would be happy to sit on his doorstep if he would give us a few minutes ofhis time I had two copies of his book I wanted him to sign and a few pictures too I also wanted to put a few questions to him in regard to little known aspects of his flying career

To make a long story short Doug was more than cordial In fact he took a great liking to Mrs C and addressed all of his answers to my questions to her as though she was the interviewer Instead of the anticipated 15 minutes we were there for several hours while Doug regaled us with the story of his life as an airman

The upshot of this was that I spoke with Doug from time to time and eventushyally invited him to be guest speaker at one of our monthly meetings of the Vinshytage Airplane Association held at Glendale College Doug agreed to speak at our January 1987 meeting which coshyincided with his 80th birthday It was standing room only and the highlight of the year

Jim Reddig a Grover Loening associshyate who had contributed much to the engineering of the Fleetwings Seabird had been in town when Doug gave his talk It transpired that Jims daughter was the mayor of Galveston Texas which was about to celebrate its 200th anniversary Doug was a native Galve-

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In the early morning hours of Sunday July 17 1938 Doug Corrigan gives his 185-hp Challenger a final inspection before attempting a nonstop hop to California Immediately on takeoff he encountered cloud cover which persisted for the next 20 hours or so precluding position checks By the time he discovered his error it was too late to turn back

Dougs Robin had a spartan instrument panel shown here with a defunct Pioneer compass Corrigan claimed he followed the wrong end of the needle on his floor-mounted compass (which had since disappeared) The reciprocal bearing for his charted course to California via Memphis and EI Paso just happened to land him in Dublin That was his story and he never wavered from it

a recluse and there was a story cirshyculating that he greeted uninvited callers with a shotgun Harry told me that it was true that Doug was not always very cordial when peoshyple especially news-hawks banged on his door unannounced but he would not confront me with a shotgun if I notified him I was coming in advance Harry in fact called Doug on my behalf and I

went to see him at his home in Santa Ana not far from where my mothershyin-law lived

Something told me that it might not be a bad idea to bring my Irish mothershyin-law Mrs Callahan along She of course knew the story of Wrong Way Corrigan and said shed love to meet him Incidentally Mrs C had a few good stories of her own including one about a flying saucer that landed on the family farm near Hartford in 1943

Anyway I brought Mrs C and Mary Jane my wife along to meet Doug one Sunday afternoon I banged on his door until my knuckles were sore the doorbell being permanently out of service There was no response I banged some more Still no response Disappointed I was heading back to the car when I noticed Mrs c wideshyeyed and gesturing excitedly toward the door It was open a crack

I walked back and the door opened a bit more revealing a somewhat dishysheveled Doug Corrigan He was wearing an olive drab army surplus sleeveless undershirt and had about a weeks growth of beard It occurred to me that he had a hangover or someshy

Doug Corrigan aboard Ed Clarks Hornet Moth for some dual Hawthorne Municipal Airport August 1988

stonian and the planners needed someshyone to persuade him to take part in the festivities It didnt take much urging Doug hadnt been back to Galveston since his Grand Tour of 1938

Doug took the train and presented himself at a very posh affair dressed in his uniform namely slacks in need of some ironing and his very battered leather flying jacket It was a black tie affair and Doug had a tie but it wasnt black and it had seen a good deal of hard use He was almost tossed out on his ear

Corrigan happily autographs various items for Hawthorne Airfaire visitors August 1988

until someone recognized that it was Wrong Way Corrigan one of the guests of honor

Doug enjoyed the spotlight even when things got a little stressful Peoshyple didnt always know who he was and his somewhat tattered appearance often caused doormen to commence giving him the bums rush Invariably howshyever someone would recognize him and those were the moments Doug relshyished

The Hawthorne Airfaire was coming up in 1988 and it too coincided with an important date in Dougs life the 50th anniversary of his July 1938 New Yorkshy

to-Ireland flight At the behest of Her Honor Mayor Betty Ainsworth I

asked Doug if there was any chance that the Robin might be available for display Doug was noncommital but he didnt say NO

We talked about the possibility and Ed Clark said hed take care of everyshything insofar as moving and assembling the aircraft were conshycerned Ed was much involved with the Hawthorne Museum of Flight as was Leo Gaye They had plenty of hangar space and lots of volunteer manpower

I forget now whose idea it was Dougs or Eds but the notion that the Robin might fly again was being bandied about That may have been what prompted Dougs approval of plans to display Sunshine at the Hawthorne Airfaire at the end of Aushygust He was quite excited about the whole thing because the idea of flyshying the Robin again really appealed to him Sunshine had not been off the

ground since 1940 Doug hadnt flown since Roy his

youngest son was killed in a plane crash at Catalina That was in 1972 He just didnt have the heart for it But 15 years had passed and he had never really lost his love of the art Ed said hed give Doug some dual in the Hornet Moth if he could pass his medical A day or two later Doug showed up at Hawthorne Municipal (often referred to as Northrop Field) with a fresh medical

Ed gave Doug an hours dual in the Hornet Moth I dont have the exact date at hand but Ed was satisfied that he could handle the airplane Doug was a little rough but then that was the way he flew in his prime Hed gotten on with

Collecting Sunshine at 2829 N Flower Street Santa Ana California Doug still had the OX5 with which the Robin was originally equipped

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The Robin on taxiway at Hawthorne Just visible on cowling next to the windshield is the label from a box of Sunshine Crackers (The round marking is the Mobil Aeroillogo) In 1938 Corrigan was sustained by the ray of sunshine provided by the Robin his sole asset and Sunshine crackers were a staple of his diet when the future seemed bleakest At that time he was domiciled in a hangar with the Robin to save rent

American after his epic flight to Ireland but only lasted a couple of months AAL wasnt about to adopt Dougs style of flying and he felt pretty much the same way

Doug never did get to fly the Robin again The Grade-A fabric had weakshyened to the extent that it was almost like paper You could easily put your finger through it Ed Clark volunteered to completely recover the airplane at no charge to Doug using the Museum of Flight facilities the only provision being the Robin would remain at the museum for a year

It was suggested that the old fabric be cut up in small pieces as souvenirs for Doug to sign and sell for a few dolshylars He was then getting by on $200 a month Social Security That barely paid his property taxes and the premishyums to maintain the $50000 insurance policy he had on the Robin Doug had never in his life spent much on food For him a couple of donuts and a bowl of soup was sufficient

Doug vetoed the idea not because

he objected to the terms He just wanted the airplane to remain as it was when it ferried him to fame Besides he didnt think the 50-year-old fabric was all that bad Doug was serious about flying it as is and this became a real concern to everyone For a time the Robin was secured under lock and key chained to a police car to prevent any surreptitious outings

Doug flew to Ireland for a week just before the Airfaire a guest of Aer Linshygus It was the first time hed flown in an airliner since his own days as a nonsked DC-3 pilot for Royal Air plyshying the Seattle-Fairbanks service Doug didnt like flying with anybody else at the controls and consequently took the train whenever the need to travel arose He really enjoyed railroading

The presence of Sunshine and her pilot helped to make the 1988 Hawthorne Airfaire a great success The event largely orchestrated by Leo Gaye continued for several years after Leos untimely death and was last held in 1997 As so often happens a new

regime at City Hall led to a general attishytude of thumbs down toward what has come to be known as Northrop Field The city now would like to make a shopping mall out of the place

Alas Sunshine was soon back in seclusion in the Corrigan garage and Doug himself reverted to his reclusive ways I dont think he ever again made a public appearance From time to time he would come to his door but the interviews were never more than a minute or two More often then not the visitor if a newsperson would have the door shut in his face Doug did not take too kindly to the media especially TV

Doug Corrigan passed away Decemshyber 9 1995 at the age of 88

It was th e Zimmerman- Vought V-173 which made a number ofemergency landings in the Hartford area in 1943-33

Leo Gaye the V AA s founder and longshytime president had some great speakers too including Victor Belenko who fled the USSR in a Mig-25 Jack Northrop and Indy winner Sam Hanks) ~

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At the time it was introduced the Rocket was a sensashytion and had tongues wagging from coast to coast about its speed and handling Unfortunately all that talking wasnt translated into many orders and with little cash to build a sales backlog the firm soon went under in an all too familiar story But while the bloom was still on the rose the Rocket was making headlines and the very first one built is the one you see here on the pages ofVinshytage Airplane

This first example was built in 1942 by Rufus S Pop Johnson Pop Johnson had been in aviation a long time and his three sons took to it as well all three beshycoming airline pilots Only last year one of the sons David passed away at age 84 22 years after completing a 34 year career as a Captain with American Airlines

Pops airplane bore a less than coincidental appearshyance to the Culver Cadet and the later Globe Swift also showed some of his thoughts He worked for John Kennedy after making a deal with the company owner to produce Johnsons design Kennedy who headed up Globe was looking for a post-war project for the comshypany to build After a deal was made towards the end of WW-II Johnson and chief engineer KH Bud Knox worked together on the project to build a production vershysion of his airplane which Globe dubbed the Swift but as the program moved along Johnson took offense at some of the changes and left the company Moving back to Ft Worth he started his own company to build the airshyplane he had designed

The Rocket he first built in 1942 is the subject of afshyfection for one Leonard McGinty (EAA 6036 V AA 3029) who had an encounter with Pop when he was a lad of but 14 years of age Len ran into him at an airport in Tampa FL and went for a 20 minute ride with the effushysive Johnson Len thought it was the greatest airplane in the world and it was an experience he never forgot Back in the early 1980s while visiting his friend Morton Lester (EAA 55178 VAA 14) of Martins field VA he happened to walk through Morton s cousin s bam where many of the aircraft he had collected were stored Len

asked him where he got the Johnson Rocket Morton was stunned Prior to that no one else had correctly identified the airplane

From that moment on Len knew the airplane had to be his and fortunately his friend Morton was willing to let him have it Len said he offered to send Morton a check as soon as he got back to Tampa but Morton wouldnt think of it Morton told him hed hold the plane as long as Len wanted and he only had to bring the check when he came to pick it up

Len wasnt surprised that Morton gave him such a long grace period and when circumstances permitted a truck that was dispatched to pick up a donation for the Sun n Fun museum was also able to stop and pick up the Rocket But the fates were not done with the plane While being trucked to Florida a beer truck hit the covshyered truck the airplanes and a Model A Ford were in Then to add further insult to the accident a second beer truck hit the first

All that banging around didnt help the Rocket fuseshylage which rattled around a bit and banged the tail on the roof After all the dust had settled Bill Williams Sun n Funs treasurer and the driver of the truck called Len

Are you hurt Len asked No Is Tasha [his dog] hurt No were okay Great we won t worry about the rest After a couple of days waiting for the truck to be

fixed Len was able to feast his eyes on the airplane hed wanted since he was a boy - a Johnson Rocket and not just anyone of the 19 or so built but the very first one the only one built with a conventional landing gear and a 125 hp Lycoming SIN 101 the prototype Johnson Rocket built by Pop in 1942

After completion in 1942 Pop showed it off to anyone who would watch but especially to US government agencies and the Mexican authorities Because it was an experimental prototype each time he went to fly it to a different location he had to get a ferry permit To this day

Jim Koepnick

(Below) A 150 hp Lycoming 0-320 replaces the 125 hp 0-290 previously installed in the airplane Minute cracks in the original crankshaft meant Len didnt want to trust it in his favorite airplane

the airplane carries an experimenshytal airworthiness certificate since it was never included in the apshyproval within ATC 776 for the Rocket 185 Pop Johnson put about 520 hours on the plane before it was sold to a civilian who later folded a landing gear After that it sat for over 30 years until it was acquired by Morton

After Len got it home he had to decide what he was going to do with it His daughter had a little trouble seeing the diamond in the rough but Len knew it was in there like a geode in a pile of ordishynary rocks

Rebuilding the airplane didnt scare Len too badly except for one thing - hed heard a rattle from within the wing when he unloaded it and hed never worked on a plyshywood skinned wing before A call

to Jim Kimball (EAA 49344 V AA 8908) of Zellwood FL helped solve the mystery Jim and his son Kevin (EAA 374778) run Jim Kimball Enterprises where they specialize in the restoration and construction of a wide variety of sport aviation aircraft Roger Anderson a forshymer FBO operator in Minnesota who used to do warranty work for Bellanca and Champion is a retired ace woodworker and helps out at Kimballs when he gets a chance Roger looked the wing over closely and pronounced that it would be no problem to fix the wing

After reviewing the quality of work done by the Kimball shop Len had them do the restoration on the wings and after watching the care going into their reshyconstruction Len decided to have them do the entire airplane And do it they did Right down to the steel tube fuselage framework they rebuilt the molded plyshywood turtledeck The Rocket is a combination of wood

Welcome aboard The interior has been restored in keeping with the prototype aspect of the airplane so no overly upholshystered side panels in this airplane One of the few adornshyments is the etched aluminum trim on the door The cockpit of the Rocket with its dual doors and the wheel wells just forward of the two seats You can see the small window on each of the wells so you can visually check the gear location

and steel tube with tube used for the movable tail surfaces and the fixed surfaces built up out of plywood The elshyevator and ailerons are actuated by push-pull rods while the rudder is controlled by cables All of the control surshyfaces are mounted hinged with Torrington or Fafnir needle bearshyings and are carefully designed to maintain the same level of control surface resistance throughout the airshyplanes flight regime

Len has chosen to reshytain the look and feel of the prototype right

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Arnold Greenwell

You can see what he had to start with - dirty but complete just as it had been for over 30 years Its not every day youre treated to the sight of a prototype airplane that did make it into production

Down to the steel tube framework the Rocket is restored by the (Above) Sleek lines and a low wing meant speed to the average buyer capable hands of the staff at Jim Kimball Enterprises in Zellwood FL The later Rocket 185 could deliver 180 mph flat out in high speed cruise

Lens 150 hp version is a tad slower comfortably cruising at 140 mph

down to the lack offancy upholstery in the cockpit One change he did have to make was the engine The original enshygine that came with the project was a Lycoming 0-290 SIN 7 and when the crankshaft of the engine was carefully checked by Elliotts Crankshaft Sershyvice a red rejection tag had to be hung on it - minute cracks in the crankshyshaft flange rendered it uncertifiable Good enough for an airboat but not

(Inset) Gerry Houghton Rocket pilot and good friend

(Below) Len McGinty and his wife Lena

for an airplane with Lens happy hide strapped to it

Because of the early model of that 0shy290 it was impossible to find a new crank so a decision was made to upgrade the airplanes engine inshystallation to a 150 hp Lycoming 0-320 with

a fixed pitch Sensenich prop A few items during the restoration

were done by Len such as the pitted and corroded hydraulic cylinders but he credits the Kimballs with 99 pershycent of the work He really didnt know the family before the Rocket restorashytion but he was thrilled with the new friends hes made in Zellwood They are just wonderful people and do qualshyity work and have wonderful

employees he said Also credited for much of

Lens success is his wife Lena Lemonade McGinty Lemonade is a nickname she picked up from the kids and its stuck though the years Shes been supportive of Len as he started in business for himself over 25 years ago and continues to be a quiet calming influence in the McGinty household

Getting it done in time for the 25th Anniversary of Sun n Fun was a goal as well since Len has served as a volunteer for that orgashy

nization for many years as well includshying time spent volunteering as the president of the Sun n Fun museum now known as the International Sport Aviation Museum Just a little while beshyfore the fly-in began the Rocket flew for the first time in 44 years

Len marvels at how the airplane handles and how quick it is At the time we hooked up with him at Sun n Fun he had not soloed the airplane preferring to have his friend Gerry Houghton (EAA 203549 VAA 21590) who has more time in quick taildragshygers help get him ready to fly the Rocket Sensitive but not overly so in the air it can be a handful on paved surfaces according to Len He was looking forward to getting started on some dual in the Rocket and then comshypleting his 10 hours of solo time to satisfy his insurance requirements Like many of us he mentioned that it takes quite a few more hours in the airshyplane before he is comfortable in it so his personal minimums for wind conshyditions etc are somewhat more limited until hes satisfied with his inshyteraction with the airplane

For a brief time at Sun n Fun we had three of the Rockets parked toshygether - Lens prototype Rocket 125 along with two Rocket 185 s Orval Fairbairns NC 90204 and Roy Foxshyworthy S NC 90202 It was quite a sight and one that must have thrilled the 14-year-old who s still a part of Len McGinty the youngster who was certain that some day hed own a Johnson Rocket

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Lori Seymour Apache Fan

20 AUGUST 1999

(Above) The Piper Apache is known today for being a relatively inexpensive way to get into flying a twin engine airplane but when William Piper Sr made the decision to actually produce Pipers first twin engine airplane the retail cost of $32500 made some in the company blanch at the thought It went on to become one of Pipers best sellers especially when compared to the two other twins of its day the Twin Bonanza priced at $70000 and the Cessna 310 priced just below $50000

(Inset) Pugnacious for sure but the Piper Apache has proven to be one of the most popular civilian twin-engine trainers in history A pair of 150 hp Lycomings can move an Apache along at an economy cruise speed of 162 mph 170 mph if you pushed the power up a bit higher

Right now someone is saying Yeah she became a police officer or someshything but whats that got to do with airplanes It has everything to do with airplanes In fact airplanes were part of her family from the beginning when her father used to own a 172 He had to sell it to put her and her two brothers through college but not before she discovered the wonderful world of the airport So it was only natural when she went looking for high school jobs shed look at the airshyport But her job there wasnt washing airplanes She was on the security staff

Initially she went to college for preshymed but during one swruner she interned with the local police department There she was exposed to real police work and she was on her way

Out of college she sent an application to every federal agency that had a crimishynal investigator She got several strong bites but her interview with the uS Customs Service was a done deal when she found out they had an air interdiction program Airplanes and police work her idea ofheaven

Once out of training she was assigned to crew a Blackhawk chopper as part of the onboard enforcement team They were based in west Texas working the border She didnt get any stick time in the Blackhawk but several of her coshyworkers were CFIs so she continued her lessons and in a few months got her PPL Wanting to be closer to her old stomping grounds on the east coast she applied for and received a lateral transfer to another

Federal law enforcement agency They had airplanes she could fly mostly Parteshynavias so she got her commercial multi-engine and instrument tickets and started working her way to becoming a pilot In fact she was next in line for OV -10 training when the agency got rid of them Back to the drawing board

The bottom line for advancement within the airwings was that she needed more flying time Almost as soon as she got her private ticket she bought a Cherokee 140 and began flying its wings off putting most of her paycheck into its gas tanks Then something happened which showed her another side of aviashytion and which broadened her horizons enormously she went for a ride with a girl friend in an S-2B Pitts She had done a little akro in the OV -10 but the S-2B ride showed her REAL aerobatics She had to have a Pitts

She had received her tailwheel trainshying from a local crop duster when he turned her loose in a Super Cub shortly after she got her PPL so the Pitts didnt intimidate her She started looking for a Pitts she could afford and found a fixershyupper S-IC with an 0-290G Lycoming and began working on it and changing the engine to an 0-320 Somewhere along the line she got so good at workshying on airplanes that she took the AampP test and passed it So now our young lass who carries a gun is a multi-enshygine aerobatic pilot with an AampP ticket Very impressive

This year marks her second year of competing in the Pitts and in the Nashytionals which also happened to be her fourth contest she came in II tho Not too shabby

Always looking to climb the federal career ladder she found it was going to take 500 hours of multi-engine time to make her career go in the direction she wanted Enter Piper Apache N1393P

We should make a note here that Lori isnt one to buy and sell airplanes Shes got the buying part down okay but hasnt quite worked out the selling part yet She says airplanes are something you acshycumulate you dont sell them so the Apache has to share her life with her first airplane the Cherokee plus the Pitts her first love And oh yeah there is the other Pitts S-I C she bought She doesnt have an engine for that one yet but shell get it flying soon

Her P A-23 is typical of the species that descended from the original Stinson Twin which Piper acquired when they

Up to that point the most complex airplane built by Piper was the IFR equipped Piper Pacer Adding a second engine and a retractable landing gear was a whole new experience for the engineering and production staff at Pipers Lock Haven factory The interior of her Apache is Loris next project

purchased that company in 1950 The world had never seen a successful light twin when Piper put the airplane into production in 1953 with a pair of the then-new 150 hp Lycoming 0-320s Alshythough Cessna fielded their C-31 0 a year later it was hardly the forgiving aroundshythe-patch trainer the Apache was The gentle old airplane became the standard multi-engine training airplane for several decades and is still the class room in which many pilots get their introduction to the world of the many-motored flying machine Although universally considshyered a marginal twin-engine airplane it is for the exact same reasons just as unishyversally recognized as a great multi-engine trainer because it forces the pilot to know what he or she is doing while still being forgiving enough to let them make mistakes and survive

Equally as important as the airplanes forgiving nature is that it is relatively inshyexpensive to purchase and is as cheap as a twin gets to operate To a young lady who wants to build multi-engine time that last factor the low costs became a driving factor

Lori tracked down her 1956 150 Apache only a little over a month before we ran into her at Sun n Fun 99 Even then she was well on the road to building time as she had already logged 30 hours in it When she found it the airplane only had 800 hours since a 1993 rebuild on the engines which for the 0-320 is barely coming into mid-time She bought the airplane from an individual who had bought it for the same reason she did to build time so even though it had 4000

hours total time on it it had a relatively small amount of training time in its logs Some Apaches have spent so much time in the pattern with students they are getshyting really tired but not Loris

The airplane had a huge activity gap in its log books because it sat dormant never turning a wheel for nearly 14 years beginning in 1976 The airplane was rescued in 1990 and painted Then in 1993 when the engines were done everything else needing refurbishing was refurbished with the exception of the interior Lori says shes not going to do anything to the outside of the airshyplane but the interior is driving her nuts and shes gearing up to do most of that work herself As an AampP she has a leg up on many Apache owners beshycause she can do so much of the maintenance and updating herself Most owners cant afford to put much money into what is a fairly complex but relatively low-priced airplane

Another thing which is driving her nuts is the pair of small empty holes on each engine cowl Thats where the Piper nameplates should be So if anyone has a set of Apache nameplates theyd part with let us know at EAA HQ and well put you in touch with her

If she achieves her goal of 500 hours multi-engine time that means the Apache should still have plenty oflife left in it for another aspiring time builder to climb aboard and start stuffing their log book But wait Thats not going to happen beshycause so far Lori hasnt sold airplanes It looks as if the rest of us will have to go looking for our own Apache

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August Mystery Plane

Our August Mystery Plane is supplied by Brian Baker A one-of-kind post-war airplane it did generate some interest in those days Send your answers to EAA Vintage Airplane PO Box 308654903-3086 You answers need to be in no later than September 25 1999 so they can be included in the November issue If you prefer you can E-Mail your answer to vintageeaaorg Be certain t o include both your name and the address in the body of the copy and put (Month) Mystery Plane in the subject line

The product of a short lived avishyation company (how many times have your read that about a firm started in the 1930s) the May Mystery Plane was nonetheless well known to a number of you having been issued ATe 417 in 1931 Heres our first note

The May Mystery Plane is an

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by HG Frautschy

Overland Sport Biplane Overland was much more recognizedfor its automobile company and hoped to carry their name over to the aviation field The airplane may not have taken offto the general public too well because few were built but in my opinion the lines on the airplane are beautiful For anyone who is inshyterested there is a color painting by K 0 Eckland ofone on the web site

at httpwwwaerofilescomovershylandjpg A nice orange fuselage with yellow wings and the graceful Overland signature painted in blue on the vertical fin

Like always ram keeping my eye out to see ifany rare aircraft like this may still exist Lately though I have not been pursuing any ofmy leads because Jack says we have enough airplane projects than we know what to do with

Well I have one hintfor anyone who might want to track one down For anyone who has the American Airman magazine put out by the AAA go to the January 1961 issue On page 34 under the article REARshyWIN SA VED a Mr Don Benrund of Goodhue Minnesota tells the readers that he found a LeBlond enshygine for his Rearwin The LeBlond engine came offnone other than a Overland Sport Biplane He says this particular Overland Sport crashed at Red Wing Airport in 1946 As near as he couldfigure the airplane (present time 1961) is now

OVE~DSPORTAfODELL

at the bottom ofabout 15 feet ofrubshybish in a ravine behind the airport What has happened to the airplane or even the airport in the last 38 years I have no clue but maybe someone out there picked it up

NickHurm Spring Valley OH

Heres a little more The Mystery Plane for May

1999 is an Overland Sport Model L built between 1930 and 1932 by Overland Airways at Omaha NE Originally deshysigned by Harold K Phillips it was first powered by LeBlond 60 but later due to some modishyfications by Wallace Chet Cummings (after Phillips left) the LeBlond 70 was used The Type Certificate was ATC 417 Three were built before the type certificate was issued and three were built after

It had a s teel tube fuselage with woodfairing strips and

wood wings Large ailerons were on the lower wings only No brakes and a tail skid 650xl0 semi-airwheels Overall length 1710 height 72 wing span upper 274 lower 264 chord (both) 44 total wing area 180 sq ft airfoil USA -27 weight empty 904 lbs useful load 462 lbs gross wt 13661bs cruising speed 85 mph landing 38 mph Bayonet type

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exhaust stacks were optional Bill McKelvey Hilliard Ohio

Other correct answers were received from Robert P Laible Parkville MO Larry W James MD Austin IX John Farnsworth Cary NC Frank Abar Livonia MI and Roy Cagle Prescott AR and Marty Eisenmann Alta Lorna CA ~

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Where Atchison Kansas When The last weekend in May What You want me to speak at

your dinner about what Kelly and Edna Viets Honorarshy

ium Well sure Ill do it Kelly and

Edna Viets are not only to of our dearshyest friends they have been a part of the AntiqueClassic Division now the Vinshytage Airplane Association since the very beginning Sure Ill do it

And thats the way it started back in February Now the time had come and Im DRJVfNG down 1-35 on the way to Atchison Kansas

Yeah DRJVfNG thats what I said I know I know 1 have four airplanes in the hangar so cant a guy drive None of my airplanes is a real cross-country type The Aeronca C-3 the Champ and the Fleet are just not good for long hauls thats for sure And the Lark is out of annual

United my favorite airline has

The commemorative plaque at the Atchison KS Airport

24 AUGUST 1 999

schedules to MKC just across the river from Atchison but this is a holiday weekend and getting a standby seat is real iffy getting home even more so so we drive

The weather is a factor too and beshysides I can visit friends and stop at every windsock and hysterical marker along the way

I took two days going down stopshyping along the way and visiting friends and having a great time

The Fly-in was great There were well over 75 airplanes there some of them really made me drool I furthered my education too Somewhere in the back of my head I knew Amelia Earhart was from Kansas but here I am at the Amelia Earhart Airport where this affair is taking place

r took a lot of pictures and there were far more airplanes than I had film Some of the pictures are here and beshycause we cant print them all youll only see a few But those few show the quality and the extent of the pride of ownership that is so prevalent in the vintage airplane owner of today From the E-2 Cub to the Cessna Bobcat to the polished 150 they were all just outshystanding

One very interesting aside the sons and daughters are beginning to take hold I am happy to report that in addi-

Frank Spatz (left) and Kelly Viets

tion to many of the grand dads in my class there were a number of youngshysters showing off their T carts Luscombes 120s Champs Ercoupes and the like Many of them went home with door prizes and awards

The Roast and Toast dinner went off just fine Kelly and Edna have been involved with the Kansas City Anshytiquers since the 1960s starting the chapter forming the International Ershycoupe group putting out newsletters serving as officers directors chaplain and grunts at every event imaginable meanwhile doing restoration on a Coupe a Stinson 108 a Bellanca and finally building a Travelair 2000 almost from scratch as their last project

Speaking about them was easy They ve accomplished so much and been so deeply involved that a speech needs only to recite their accomplishshyments and contributions For starters theyre life members ofEAA and your Association Theyve given dedicated service to the Foundation and Kelly

was involved in the preliminary design of the beautiful Aviation Center at Oshkosh Service as Parking and Registration Chairshymen at Oshkosh for many years is also on the list Theres just no end to their involvement

I was honored to be asked I went and I did it and it was great Id do it again and the frosting on the cake was seeing all those beautiful airplanes meeting the people and sharing an evening with them

Over to you

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Edna Viets takes care of the registration at the fly-in

Neat cars always seem the be on hand at many fly-ins This sharp 29 Ford Speedster is quite a contrast to the brand new C5 Corvette in the background

Pat Lawler (far left and below right) and his Cessna 170B shone so bright that Dave Fritz (below left) gave him the Jetco Cessna 170 model kit as an admiration award

(left) Joe Stone of Grass Valley KS brought this Lycoming 0-290-D-2 A really neat L-2M owned by Mark Trimble of Branson MO and powered Piper J-5C piloted by AI Eggabroad of Sparta IL

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Bob Vasey of Sylvia KS has owned this 1950 Piper PA-20 A real custom job it has a 180 hp engine and a STOL kit and a number of Alaskan STCs

This DGA-15P first built in 1940 is Ron Ripons pride and joy The Grand Champion and Best in Class it also was given the AAA HQ award There was always a crowd around

One of Kelly and Edna Viets favorite airplanes the Ercoupe Bob and Bill Tidd stand in front of this Erco-built version

Kerney NE is the home of this pretty 1944 Stinson V-77 NC33543 owned by Don Maxfield

Steve Blazer of St Joseph MO brought this excellent Taylorcraft

Tom Cresswells wife says she can read two paperback novels in the time it takes to polish his Cessna 150

26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix

Wetaskiwin AB Canada

Tom J Taylor Calagery AB Canada

Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada

W E Clifford Sidney Canada

Gerhard Westerdyk

Blaricum Netherlands

Les Worsley

Owhata Rotorua New Zealand

William Mosley Rimrock AZ

Samuel W Russell III

Green Valley AZ

Bernard N Bakken Tujunga CA

David Cuttler Oakland CA

Robert L Fornesi Claremont CA

Chris D Freeman Corona CA

Stanley Hall Simi Valley CA

Joseph H Heagerty Riverside CA

Kris Larson Long Beach CA

Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro

Pacific Palisades CA

Kevin C Spafford Durham CA

Mike E Spearin Yreka CA

Steven Stewart Los Angeles CA

Larry Tougas Suisun CA

J Scott Allen Boulder CO

Joel L Burkholder Westminster CO

Mark W Davis Arvada CO

Jerry L McMillin Punta Gorda FL

Giuseppe Baldassarri

Carrollton GA

John A Pittman Gainesville GA

Michael P Andrews Chicago IL

Paul Carlon Deerfield IL

Steve Lebrecht Oak Park IL

Mike Matheny Elmhurst IL

James E Palombi Chicago IL

Kerry A Shipman Homewood IL

Gary W Wills Channahon IL

Arndt E Mueller Marion IN

Charles Y Harley Goddard KS

Robert F Prince Monroe LA

Harold A verbuck Natick MA

Eugene Osantowske

Commerce Township MI

Gary B Vos


Richard D Elliott Elk River MN

Paul Pankratz Lakeville MN

Terry Jarvis Jefferson City MO

Kurt Neely Peculiar MO

Jeffrey P Rich Mebane NC

David W Roberts Skyland NC

Kent Wien Newmarket NH

Richard 1 Ayers Villas NJ

James Dix Horseheads NY

Duane L Bates Kinsman OH

Dr David Gale Solon OH

Gregory Hamilton A von Lake OH

Nyle E Morgan Franklin OH

James B Nichols Reynoldsburg OH

Thomas A Srpan Willoughby OH

Mark Brocket Newalla OK

Tom W Yates Altus OK

Bruce W Burroughs Redmond OR

Dean H Gradwell JacksonviIle OR

Blair Mohn Lancaster PA

Stuart E Adcock Campo Bello SC

William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN

Tom Linneman Smyrna TN

William F Thomas Englewood TN

Jimmy K Martin Longview TX

Mike Nebrig Denton TX

Frederick A Rockwell Plano TX

Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX

A C Weatherly Benbrook TX

Gary L Casey Salt Lake City UT

Stephen Gregory Springdale UT

Brad Buchanan Daleville VA

Tommy Hazel Warrenton VA

Scot A Prescott S Nero VT

Craig A Currie Ferndale WA

Leland Harris Bellevue W A

Michael Neubauer

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Martine Hammonds Madison WI

Robert D Lubecke East Troy WI

Rosie Stark Waupaca WI

Charles T Stevenson Janesville WI

Paul R Stutleen Green Bay WI

Neal Collett Elkins WV

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AUGUST 15 - BROOKFIELD WI - Capitol Airport 16th Annllal Vintage Aircraft display and Ice Cream Social Noon - 5pm Midwest Antique Airplane Club monthly meeting and model aircraft will also be on display You can purchase a ride on EAAs Ford TrishyMotor too Fun for the elllire family Info Capitol Airport 44781-8132 or George Meade Fly-in Chairman 414962-2428

AUGUST 21- COOPERSTOWN NY - (NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake brealfast and old Aeroplane F(v-1n 7anl - noon 1nfo 607547-2526

AUGUST 21- SPEA RFISH SD - EAA Chapter 806 Annual Fir-In Camping onfteld Cream Can Dinshyner Awards Poker run on Saturday SD Aviation Hall of Fame Induction Sat Email c21golaynaiocom

SEPTEMBER 3 - MOCKSVILLE NC - Tara Airbase (5NCI) Annual Anything that Flies Fly-in and WW-1 weekend Early Arrivals Sept 4 Big Day 2100X80 Sod Adv Frecl- 1229 land north ifpossible Live USO s(vle Band awards for the best lVar years outfit Sat Night WWI Military amp Vintage Vehicles Reinshyactors camping amp food available Colponsored by EAA Chapter 1083 Info call 336-284-2161or 336shy764-0007 Allendance is at your olVn risk

SEPTEMBER 3-5 - PROSSER WA - EAA Chapter 391 16th Annual Labor Day Weekend Fly-In Info 509786-1034

SEPTEMBER 3-4 -HAYWARD CA - Hayward Air Fair 99 hosted by VAA Chapter 29 Hayward Airshyport BBQ hangar dance Fri Airshow Sat $1000 aviation scholarship awarded aircraft awards 1nfo Janis Babcock 925455-2300 or fax at 455-2333

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SEPTEMBER 4 - MA RlON IN - Marion Municipal Airport 9th Annual Flyln-Cruiseln all you can eat Pancake Breakfast Features Antique Classic amp Custom Cars as well as all Airplanes Info Ray L Johnson (765) 664-2588 or rayjohnsonbusshyprod com

SEPTEMB ER 5 - ZANES VILL E Oil - Riverside Airport EAA Chapter 425 Airport Fly-in drive-in breakfast 8 am - 2 pm Info Darrell Todd 740450-8633

SEPTEMBER 5 - MONDOVI WI - 14th Annual Fl)shyIn Log Cabin Airport Info 7J 5287-4205

SEPTEMBER 5 - NA PPANEE IN - EAA Chapter 938 Sunday for a Sundae Ice Cream Socia 12 to 3pm

SEPTEMBER 10-I2 - ATWATER CALIFORNIA - Golden West EAA Fly-In at Castle Aiport Conshytact wwwgwfly-inorg

SEPTEMBER 11- OSCEOLA WI - 19th Annual Wheels amp Wings Fly- In Antique car show book salepancake breakjilst Info 800947-0581

SEPTEMBER 11-12 - MARlON OJIO - MERFI Mid-Eastern Regional Fly- Itl Contact Lou Lindeshyman 937849-9455

SEPTEMBER 11-12 - EASTON PA - EAA Chapler 70 FAA Safety Seminar Annual Fall Fly- In Fly Market plaquesfor all aircraft In(o 610588shy0620

SEPTEMBER 12 - MT MORRiS IL - Ogle Coun(Y Airport (C55) Ogle Coun(Y Pilots Association and EAA Chapter 682 Fly-In Breakfast 7 am - Noon Info Bill Sweet 815734-4320 or the airport phone 815734-6 36

SEPTEMBER 17-18 - BARTLESVILLE OK shyFrank Phillips Field 42nd Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 10 VAA Chapshyter 10 lAC Chapter 10 AAA Chapter 2 alld the Green County Ultralight Flyers AII (Ypes ofairshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are encouraged to attend Admission is by donation Info Charles W Ilarris 918622-8400

SEPTEMBER 17- 19 - JACKS ONVILL E IL shy(UX) 15th Annual Byron Smith Memorial Midwest Stinson Reunion Info Suzette Selig 630904-6964

SEPTEMBER 18 - COOPERS TOWN NY shy(NY54) EAA Chapter 1070 Pancake breakfast and old Aeroplane Fly-In 7am-noon Info 607547shy2526

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SEPTEMBER 25 - HANOVER IN - Wood Fabric and Tai lwheels Fly- In Contact Rich Davidson 812866-5654

SEPTEMBER 25 - TOPPING VA - Hummel Air Field Wings amp Wheels 99 9 anl -3 pm (Rain dote 926) Info Jamie Barnhardt 804758-2753 on on the web at httpjIytpwingsandwheels Eshymailwingsandwheelshotmailcom

SEPTEMBER 25-26 - ZANESVILLE OH - Johns wnding 8th annual Vintage Aircraft Chapter 22 of Ohio Fall Fly-ln Hog roast Sat Breakfast and lunch both days Info Virginia 740453-6889 or call the aiport at 740455-9900

SEPTEMBER 26 - GRO VE CITY PA - Grove City Airport (29D) EAA Chapter 16 1 Fly- In BreakshyfastlLllnch Info Ron Wagner 724748-3200

OCTOB ER 1-3 - HA YWARD CA - West Coast Travel Air Reunion Hosted by Antique aircraft colshylector Bud ield Private Musellm tour San Francisco Bav Area Tour Memorabilia allction good food an~lIIore Contact Jerry Impellezzeri 408356-3407 or Bud Field 925455-2300

OCTOBER 6-10 - TULLAIlOMA TN - Beech Party Staggenving Twin Beech 18 and Beech ownerenthusiasts Sponsored by the Staggerwing Beech Muselllll lnfo 9311455-1974

OCTOBER 9 - HAMPTON Nil - 9th Annual EAA Vintage Aircraft Assn Chaper 15 Pumpkin Patch Pancake Breakfast Fly-InRaffle Drawing Rain date 10th Info 603539-7168

OCTOBER 7-10 - MESA AZ- Copperstate EAA Regional Fly- In at Williams Gateway Airport Contact Bob Hasson 3027706420

OCTOBER 8-10 - EVERGREEN AL -9th Annual South East Regional EAA Fly-In (SERF) AirsholV car show UULightplane operations area Fly-Marshyket workshops FAA Wings Program Sat evening awards banquet with guest speaker Camping on field Info 334578-1707

OCTOBER 9-10 - FRA NKLIN VA - Franklin Airshyport 29th Annual EAA Chapter 339 j ly-in For more information contact Walt Ohlrich at 757486shy5192

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I love my little Luscombe and enjoy flying it a lot but I also have a business plane I use on a regular basis It was looking a bit ragged recently (Okay I hear you - sometime it looked downright tired) The Baron has been at the paint shop since I dropped it off at Hawk Aircraft Painting located at the Vandenshyburg airport in Tampa FL I dropped it off during Sun n Fun and I picked it up a couple of weeks ago They did a very fine job The paint scheme is a custom design I had been working on for several years For most of us it is a few years between paint jobs and you forget about little things you watch for Rain for instance

It seems that every time I have flown the Baron since the new paint job I have had to deal with rain showers Its been a contest between Mother Nature and myselfto see ifI will be able to keep all of that new paint in place Ill keep you posted on how the score is going

Unfortunately there s been some sad news related to the deaths of some well known aviators most notably Don Engen the head of the National Air amp Space Museum and Apollo l2 and Skylab astronaut Charles Pete Conrad In our immediate comshymunity noted aviation artist Sam Lyons was involved in an accident while returning from the Piper gathering in Lock Haven PA He had an accident with his Piper J-3 and sadly he lost his wife Vickie in the crash and was himself badly injured Sam is on the long road to recovery We all are saddened by Sams loss and wish him a speedy recovery

While these losses were the result of accidents the passing over the past year of Stan Gomoll and George York were due in part to our aging as a group It seems Ive had to write about this sort of thing more often recently as we all get older It is most imshyportant that each of us educate some of the younger people hanging around the airport about the fun education and pure pleasure that comes from owning and flying the older aircraft Lets share our enthusiasm

One of the greatest benefits new and younger pilots can receive by becoming a member of the Vintage Aircraft Association is the education about our class of aircraft by reading the membership magazine Vintage Airplane

Sure other newsstand magazines do occasionally have an artishycle or two about Antiques Classics and Contemporary aircraft but they often dont do it as well or have the heart it takes to cover it as we do for you our members The more people you enshycourage to join the Vintage Aircraft Association the more you as a member will benefit as well

In this months Vintage Airplane we offer an article about the Johnson Rocket which is owned by Leonard McGinty This aircraft has been beautifully restored and was the first Johnson

Rocket ever built While the few other Rockets built are Classic airplanes when judged this one qualifies as an Antique as it was built during 1942 well before the September I 1945 cutoff date Leonard even tries to keep this aircraft out of the rain on the ground I would too

John Underwood will be writing future articles for your pleashysure and this month his contribution is a very interesting article on Doug Wrong Way Corrigan You can look forward to more inshyteresting and informative articles by John Were also proud to announce well be treated to the writing skills of Budd Davisson I have had the pleasure of knowing Budd for a number of years Ive read his articles with great interest in other magazines and look forward to his writings in Vintage Airplane on a regular bashysis Enjoy There will be more to come from him

Ill be writing more about the happenings at EAA AirVenture 99 in the September issue For some ofyou reading this at the anshynual Fly-In and Convention Id like to welcome you and encourage you to interact with your Directors and Officers Check at the Information booth in the V AA Headquarters Red Bam and theyll be able to direct you to the right person

For the vast majority of you this is your vacation trip and as volunteers were here to help everyone have fun and enjoy the show If there is any way any of your Officers Directors Advishysors and Chairmen can help your stay be more pleasant please let us know

You can always find me by checking in at the Red Bam If I am not there you can always reach me by cell phone which the volunteers at the Info Desk can call for you Next to the Red Bam are two stationary events you do not want to miss The first is the tent where you will fmd helpful information regarding rebuilding projects Also in this area is an ongoing metal shaping demo where you can get hands-on experience too Right next door is the Type Club headquarters where for many of you you can kibshyitz with your favorite type club folks

Finally Id like to close with some great news Some of you may know that long-time Director Jeannie Hills husband Dick has been very ill for the past year and he required a very serious operation in order to regain his health The latest report I have reshyceived is that he has had this operation performed and is on the road to recovery I am very happy to hear this news and wish him the best Should you wish to drop Dick a note you can do so at the following address

Dick Hill PO Box 328 Harvard IL 60033 Were pulling for you Dick and Jeannie Lets all pull in same direction for the good of aviation Reshy

member we are better together Join us and have it all

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Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











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Eugene Osantowske


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Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




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Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











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28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

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30 AUGUST 1 999

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16 AUGUST 1 999

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24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999
















12 JULY 1999














VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13












Jim Koepnick










16 AUGUST 1 999

Arnold Greenwell

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17


20 AUGUST 1999






















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999














VINTAGE AIRPLANE 13












Jim Koepnick










16 AUGUST 1 999

Arnold Greenwell

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17


20 AUGUST 1999






















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

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DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999












Jim Koepnick










16 AUGUST 1 999

Arnold Greenwell

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17


20 AUGUST 1999






















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

Arnold Greenwell

















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17


20 AUGUST 1999






















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999


20 AUGUST 1999






















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999
















VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999





22 AUGUST 1999

by HG Frautschy





OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

OVE~DSPORTAfODELL







VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23














24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999












24 AUGUST 1 999













Over to you

f( pound3t(ck 4





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999





VINTAGE AIRPLANE 25







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999







26 AUGUST 1 999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

Nonnan J Rix



Moe G Beausoleil

Sudbury ONT Canada

Bert VanDerweerd

Norwich ONT Canada


Gerhard Westerdyk


Les Worsley




Green Valley AZ








Marion McNiff

Thousand Oaks CA

Alan Shapiro











Carrollton GA













Eugene Osantowske


Gary B Vos























William L Campbell

Mooresburg TN






Wallace R Rozell II

Highland Village TX









Michael Neubauer

Fort Townsend W A











VINTAGE AIRPLANE 27

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

----shy-----------shy











28 AUGUST 1999
































VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999








VINTAGE TRADER ~7














(715) 823-8120

The Web Goes








VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

VINTAGE AIRCRAFT







507373-1674









Cannon Falls MN 55009 507263-2414





Lawton M149065 616624-6490






Harvard IL 60033 815943-7205


Hartford WI 53027 414966-7627

e-mail sskrogaolcom




414782-2633 e-mail

lumperexecpccom


Rocnoke lX 76262 817491-9110



Madison WI 53717 608833-1291

darresprodcom





DIRECTORS EMERITUS



e-mail buck7acmcnet





























30 AUGUST 1 999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

HlJnt~NC











approved

Tobecomea

member of the

Vintage Aircraft





years to come

Thanks AUA




No age penalty















-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999













-~ - -- -- - - - - -- shy










32 AUGUST 1999

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