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VOL 32 No 2 FEBRUARY 2004
2 VAA NEWS IHG Frautschy
4 2004 HALL OF FAME- NICK REZICH
6 PASS IT TO BUCKBuck Hilbert
7 MYSTERY PLANEHG Frautschy
8 THE VINTAGE INSTRUCTOR CHARTING A COURSE Doug Stewart
10 193 1 SECOND-HAND AIRPLANE Budd Davisson
15 JUST A FLIVVER KINDA GUY CHRIS PRICE AND HIS HEATH PARASOUBudd Davisson
20 2004 TYPE CLUB LIST
25 CALENDAR
27 NEW MEMBERS
28 CLASSIFIED ADS
sect)J~ IFF EAA PUBLICATIONS
Publisher
Editor-in-Chief
Executive Editor
New s Editor
Photography Staff
Advertising Coordinator
Advertising Sales
AdvertisingEditorial Assistant
Copy Editing
TOM POBEREZNY
scon SPANGLER
MIKE DIFRISCO
RIC REYNOLDS
JIM KOEPNICK
JULIE RUSSO
LOY HICKMAN
913-268-6646
ISABELLE WISKE
COLLEEN WALSH
KATHLEEN WITMAN
VINTAGE AIRPLANE
Executive Director Edi tor VAA Administrative Assistant Contributing Edi tors
HENRY G FRAUTSCHY THERESA BOOKS BUDD DAVISSON DOUG STEWART JOHN MILLER
Front Cover Chris Price leans into a gentle turn with his colorful Heath Parasol powered by a Continental A-40 engine EAA photo by Alex Brown EAA photo plane flown by Bruce Moore
Back Cover Can you imagine being only the third owner of an antique airplane that was once owned by its designer Jim Hammond can - his Aeronca C-3 was once owned by Jean Roche the original creator of the Aeronca light plane EAA photo by Jim Koepnick EAA photo plane flown by Janet Davidson
STRAIGHT Be LEVEL ESPIE BUTCH JOYCE
PRESIDENT VINTAGE ASSOCIATION
Feeling honored Its been chilly or downright cold in the
states north of us and the Carolinas
have been seeing a bit more colder
weather than we ve had in the last couple
of years Weve been Sitting a bit closer
to the fire until the weather breaks Its
making it a bit more of a challenge to
meet my completion date for the new inshy
strument panel in the Luscombe Ive
really been pushing to get it done by the
end of April or early May
Since the windshield and the engine
are removed I thought it would be a good
time to strip the interior and repaint it Oh
no you can see where this is heading The
skylight and side window plastic will be reshy
placed and it will look so good when its
done To get it completed Ive been watchshy
ing the thermometer Every day the
temperature has gone above 50 degrees
Ive headed out to the airport so I could
use the paint stripper and water to clean it
up All those little miscellaneous pieces
like the rudder pedals have been stripped
and cleaned the brace tubes from the top
of the cabin to the engine mount have
been cleaned and painted and the engine
mount has been cleaned inspected and
repainted Since I had to remove some of
the cabane structure in the cabin I will reshy
place the aileron cable pulleys with new
ball-bearing pulleys
It s exciting to see the project moving
forward and now that Im in the putting
parts back on mode I get even more moshy
tivated A number of rivets were drilled
out and as the new or replacement items
are installed the replacement rivets will
be bucked
I just keep moving along looking for a
stopping place In a couple of months I
hope to give you an update of my progress
Committing to giving my fellow members a
progress report means I have to keep at
it and I can stay focused on getting
N2628K back on flying status
Im fortunate I have a second airplane
to fly my Contemporary category Beech
Baron It s doing well and really is a wonshy
derful tool I can leave my home and be in
St Petersburg Florida in less than threeshy
and-a-half hours Thats less time than it
takes me to drive to the Greensboro airshy
port check in wait for the airplane fly to
another airport for my flight to Tampa and
then finally get a ride to my destination afshy
ter I get off the airliner Sure when you
have to go across the country to Phoenix
or Los Angeles it makes sense to fly the
airlines but not for shorter trips up and
down the East Coast The more time
added for security checks and other parts
of the airline experience the longer my
Baron trips can be and still be a better
deal as far as time is concerned Just as it
is for many of you my Luscombe is my fun
airplane I can fly around to all of the small
airports some public and many private
and visit friends Its been so long since
Ive had the Luscombe in the air I wonder
if theyll remember me I suppose I shouldshy
nt change the exterior color just yet
As I mentioned in previous columns I
was at the centennial celebration at the
Wright Brothers National Memorial It was
a remarkable event even with the uncoopshy
erative weather Now that Ive been home
for a month Ive read a number of acshy
counts of the event in a few other
publications including some comments reshy
garding the presidents attendance and
the temporary flight restriction over the
event during his speech We live in differshy
ent times and I wont comment further on
that aspect of the celebration
I WOUld however like to express a few
of my feelings about the presidents visit
Norma and I arrived early that morning
knowing that there would be extra security
in place for those of us who would be in the
area closest to the stage Even the press
had to go through this second level of secushy
rity Sure it slowed us down but nobody
around us seemed to mind too much I felt
much more secure after getting through the
Secret Service security check
While listening to the various speakers
before the presidents arrival the feeling
of being honored to be in Kitty Hawk at
this time came over me It had started to
rain not too long after we sat down and
by the time the large Marine CH-53E helishy
copters arrived in advance of the
president it was coming down hard The
rotors were whipping the rain around in
great sheets Just a minute later a pair of
white-topped Sikorsky SH-3s appeared beshy
Iowa very low ceiling After a quick
landing the president stepped out into a
rain shower and you could watch his arshy
rival on the large video screens set up on
the memorial grounds When he stood on
the steps of the Sikorsky and waved the
hair on the back of my neck stood on end
Driven to the stage in a big GMC SUV
he gave a 20-minute speech that honored
the Wrights as great Americans He didnt
have any political agenda items in his
speech and as a fellow aviator you got
the impression he was happy to be there
just like the rest of us It didnt hurt that
he stood on that stage in the rain and saw
more than 40000 aviators standing in the
rain and mUd
He wasn t able to stay for the first
flight attempt but he did come back in Air
Force One with the 747 making a slow
flyby of the memorial grounds as he
headed back to Washington
It looks like the temperature is getting
up to the point where I can get some work
done I should head out to the airport
Do yourself a favor and ask your friend
to join up with us Lets all pull in the
same direction for the good of aviation
Remember we are better together Join us
and have it all
Butch
VINTAGE AIRPLANE
VAA NEWS EAA Critical of Air Tour NPRM
Under pressure from EAA and other industry representatives the FAA has extended the comment peshyriod on its potentially devastating National Air Tour Safety Standards notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 90 days to April 19 2004
Published in late October in the name of safety the NPRM imposes restrictive regulations on the air tour industry that the provided data do not support In preparing its official comments EAA is calling on FAA to recall the NPRM and propose a new one that incorporates the comments and concerns of the operators and public If enacted as now proposed the regulations would force a signifshyica nt number of owners and operators out of business and would ground historically significant airshycraft because their owners couldnt comply with them
The proposed rule is incomplete in that it fails to define many terms or incorporate fully all information needed to make the proposed rules valid for use EAA summarized The NPRM would place new prohibitive restrictions on private pilots prOVidshying charitable or community event flights There is little supporting data to justify the proposed wideshysweeping changes said Earl Lawrence EAA vice president for inshydustry and regulatory affairs
For example the proposed rule would require a 1920s-era airplane operated at a Midwestern nontowshyered airport to comply with the same operational and documentashytion requirements as a helicopter constructed under current requireshyments and operated in continuous service over the Grand Canyon Nashytional Park That indicates that the authors didnt follow past regulatory practice of producing regulations that are responsive to the wide variety of aircraft and operations conducted in the US EAA summarized
EAA is not insensitive to the conshycerns over air tour operation safety
FEBRUARY 2004
The worlds greatest general aviation event EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is launching the next century of flight at EAA AirVenture 2004 July 27shyAugust 2 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh Wisconsin The 52nd annual EAA gathering will AIRVEN14
o S H K a pay special attention to what lies ahead for the
~--world of flight along with recognizing the innovashytions that have led aviation to todays achievements
Over the past decade we have recognized the aviators and aircraft that changed the world over the past 100 years said EAA President and AirVenture Chairman Tom Poberezny This year EAA AirVenture is Launching the Next Censhytury of Flight by looking ahead to the innovations that build on this legacy Some of this new thinking is already becoming reality assuring that the next century of flight will be as remarkable as the first 100 years
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has always been a home for aviation innovation and serves as an inspiration for those who see untapped potential in personal flight and in aviation in general Through the years many unique designs have debuted at the event In addition the people behind the advancements have been welcomed to share their knowledge and inspire others
Most of this knowledge exchange occurs in the more than 500 educational foshyrums seminars and workshops held during the week that cover the entire spectrum of flight Add the more than 700 exhibitors displaying their latest innovashytions and more than 10000 airplanes including the nearly 1000 vintage showplanes that dot the south end of Wittman Field and EAA AirVenture particishypants have an unlimited source of aviation inspiration
Details on specific EAA AirVenture activities as well as aircraft arrival and deshyparture procedures will be announced as they are finalized For the latest information visit wwwairventureorg Housing information is available through the Oshkosh Housing Hotline at 920235-3007 (Monday-Friday 830 am to 5 pm Central time)
voiced by both Congress and the President of Government and RegulashyNTSB prompted by a series of tory Affairs Earl Lawrence and crashes involving air tour operation Director of Aircraft Maintenance many of which occurred in Hawaii Daryl Lenz VAA Executive Director However EAA does object to the HG Frautschy is working with Lenz added restrictions proposed the lack and Lawrence on developing the list of supportive data for those addishy of approved substitutes tional restrictions and the confusing The committee works with the format in which the new restrictions FAA Small Airplane Directorate to deshywere incorporated into the FARs in velop materials that help small this NPRM aircraft owners maintain and restore
their aircraft EAA Leads Aging Aircraft Discussion centered on developing Discussion an AC that will provide aircraft ownshy
Work on an FAA Advisory Circular ers with a common-sense document (AC) for documenting approved subshy that will make it easier to obtain apshystitute standard parts and materials provals for replacement parts while was conducted at a December meetshy they are maintaining their aircraft ing of the FAA Aging Aircraft Ad Hoc The committee hopes to develop a Committee held in Kansas City Misshy draft AC for FAA internal review in souri Representing EAA were Vice continued on page 27
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This fund raising program is an annual affair beginshy to join together as key financial supporters of the Vinshyning each year on July 1 and end ing June 30 of the tage Division It will be a truly rewarding experience fo llowing year This years campaign is well underway for each of us as individ uals to be part of supporting with contributions already arriving here at VAA HQ the finest gathering of Antique Classic and ContemshyOur thanks to those of you who have already sent in porary airplanes in the world your 2004 contributions Wont you please join those of us who recognize the
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3
2003 VINTAGE HALL OF FAME
NICK REZICH
A viation is often a famshyily interest and that was certainly true on the south side of
Chicago where the Rezich family was living during the golden age of aviation The boys Frank Nick and Mike haunted the nearby Chicago Municipal Airport (later Midway Airport) and built rubbershypowered models of many of the airplanes of the day
Nick Rezich soloed a Waco RNF in 1933 at age 14 beginning a lifelong career in-and love ofshyfull-size aviation He worked for Benny Howard at Howard Aircraft in Chicago and attained the posishytion of plant manager before being pressed into military service in World War II
Following the war he founded
Nicks other passion in life besides airpLanes was playing the drums His role model was Gene Krupa All the brothers were musically inclined with Mike playing trumpet and Frank playing the saxophone In high school they were known as the Rezich Orchestra
The voice ofEAA at the 1970 Joliet air show sponsored by EAA Chapters 15 101 and 75 The Voice ofEAA was silenced a decade later in 1981 after a battle with throat cancer
Nicks love ofmusic heLped him when he opened the Pylon Club on 63rd Street on the south side of Chicago Its aviation decor and proxshy
imity to Midway MEMBERSilP CARD Airport made it
a favorite ofloshycals and visiting
o aviators for Z nearly a decade
L __--~_~~~~=Jr__====~ after WWII
4 FEBRUARY 2004
Nick and his wife Joanne in front of the family Travel Air D-4-D used for Nicks air show act and for skywriting Joanne and Nick were marshyried in 19S0
Seven-year-old Frank lO-year-old Nick (mugging for the camera) and lS-year-old Mike Rezich behind the family home on Laflin Avenue in Chicago circa 1930 The model on the ground in front of the boys is the Spirit ofst Louis
The very first airplane owned by the Rezich family was this Piper E-2 Cub which was purchased by Mike and based at the Ashburn airport in 1936 Since 1936 the family has owned 26 different airplanes
By the time it was possible for Nick to buy an airplane in 1940 World War II was on the horizon Here s Nicks fashyvorite airplane his brand-new Culver Cadet at Howell airport Its blue and silver
and operated the famous aviationshythemed tavern near Midway Airport the Pylon Club
With his brother Frank he deshysigned and built the Rezich Brothers Special a Goodyear-class racer in the late 1940s The airshyplane would be one of the first donations to the EAA Museum in Hales Corners
Nick continued to build on his flying skills and flew charter for Bluebird Air Service at Midway in various planes including a Waspshypowered Bellanca and a Lockheed
12 He also did barnstorming with his brothers in the family Travel Air and Pitcairn
After the war he also flew for Morton Salt and International Harshyvester and began taking on skywriting jobs
He served as the president of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Nick (EAA 225) was a strong supporter of EAA during its early days proshymoting the organization at the Pylon Club and participating in early fly-ins and air shows He ofshyten flew and announced for free
since early EAA Chapter budgets were so lean that it was hard to even come up with the funds to buy awards for the participants
He also used his booming voice over the public address system to describe the maneuvers the pilots were flying and soon became known as the Voice of EAA He was also the master of ceremonies for many of the early EAA evening programs especially during the Rockford era
In the early 1950s Nick moved continued on page 26
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5
PASS IT TO BUCK
BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 UNION IL 60180
Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
FEBRUARY 2004
When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
With that Its over to you I(
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
Joe Maguire Canton Ohio
BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
This was a very popular mod in the Rowles Bemidji Minnesota
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
THE VINTAGE INSTRU
Charting a Course Keeping oriented in the digital world
DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
FEBRUARY 2004 8
schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
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so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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Feeling honored Its been chilly or downright cold in the
states north of us and the Carolinas
have been seeing a bit more colder
weather than we ve had in the last couple
of years Weve been Sitting a bit closer
to the fire until the weather breaks Its
making it a bit more of a challenge to
meet my completion date for the new inshy
strument panel in the Luscombe Ive
really been pushing to get it done by the
end of April or early May
Since the windshield and the engine
are removed I thought it would be a good
time to strip the interior and repaint it Oh
no you can see where this is heading The
skylight and side window plastic will be reshy
placed and it will look so good when its
done To get it completed Ive been watchshy
ing the thermometer Every day the
temperature has gone above 50 degrees
Ive headed out to the airport so I could
use the paint stripper and water to clean it
up All those little miscellaneous pieces
like the rudder pedals have been stripped
and cleaned the brace tubes from the top
of the cabin to the engine mount have
been cleaned and painted and the engine
mount has been cleaned inspected and
repainted Since I had to remove some of
the cabane structure in the cabin I will reshy
place the aileron cable pulleys with new
ball-bearing pulleys
It s exciting to see the project moving
forward and now that Im in the putting
parts back on mode I get even more moshy
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are installed the replacement rivets will
be bucked
I just keep moving along looking for a
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hope to give you an update of my progress
Committing to giving my fellow members a
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Im fortunate I have a second airplane
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and-a-half hours Thats less time than it
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another airport for my flight to Tampa and
then finally get a ride to my destination afshy
ter I get off the airliner Sure when you
have to go across the country to Phoenix
or Los Angeles it makes sense to fly the
airlines but not for shorter trips up and
down the East Coast The more time
added for security checks and other parts
of the airline experience the longer my
Baron trips can be and still be a better
deal as far as time is concerned Just as it
is for many of you my Luscombe is my fun
airplane I can fly around to all of the small
airports some public and many private
and visit friends Its been so long since
Ive had the Luscombe in the air I wonder
if theyll remember me I suppose I shouldshy
nt change the exterior color just yet
As I mentioned in previous columns I
was at the centennial celebration at the
Wright Brothers National Memorial It was
a remarkable event even with the uncoopshy
erative weather Now that Ive been home
for a month Ive read a number of acshy
counts of the event in a few other
publications including some comments reshy
garding the presidents attendance and
the temporary flight restriction over the
event during his speech We live in differshy
ent times and I wont comment further on
that aspect of the celebration
I WOUld however like to express a few
of my feelings about the presidents visit
Norma and I arrived early that morning
knowing that there would be extra security
in place for those of us who would be in the
area closest to the stage Even the press
had to go through this second level of secushy
rity Sure it slowed us down but nobody
around us seemed to mind too much I felt
much more secure after getting through the
Secret Service security check
While listening to the various speakers
before the presidents arrival the feeling
of being honored to be in Kitty Hawk at
this time came over me It had started to
rain not too long after we sat down and
by the time the large Marine CH-53E helishy
copters arrived in advance of the
president it was coming down hard The
rotors were whipping the rain around in
great sheets Just a minute later a pair of
white-topped Sikorsky SH-3s appeared beshy
Iowa very low ceiling After a quick
landing the president stepped out into a
rain shower and you could watch his arshy
rival on the large video screens set up on
the memorial grounds When he stood on
the steps of the Sikorsky and waved the
hair on the back of my neck stood on end
Driven to the stage in a big GMC SUV
he gave a 20-minute speech that honored
the Wrights as great Americans He didnt
have any political agenda items in his
speech and as a fellow aviator you got
the impression he was happy to be there
just like the rest of us It didnt hurt that
he stood on that stage in the rain and saw
more than 40000 aviators standing in the
rain and mUd
He wasn t able to stay for the first
flight attempt but he did come back in Air
Force One with the 747 making a slow
flyby of the memorial grounds as he
headed back to Washington
It looks like the temperature is getting
up to the point where I can get some work
done I should head out to the airport
Do yourself a favor and ask your friend
to join up with us Lets all pull in the
same direction for the good of aviation
Remember we are better together Join us
and have it all
Butch
VINTAGE AIRPLANE
VAA NEWS EAA Critical of Air Tour NPRM
Under pressure from EAA and other industry representatives the FAA has extended the comment peshyriod on its potentially devastating National Air Tour Safety Standards notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 90 days to April 19 2004
Published in late October in the name of safety the NPRM imposes restrictive regulations on the air tour industry that the provided data do not support In preparing its official comments EAA is calling on FAA to recall the NPRM and propose a new one that incorporates the comments and concerns of the operators and public If enacted as now proposed the regulations would force a signifshyica nt number of owners and operators out of business and would ground historically significant airshycraft because their owners couldnt comply with them
The proposed rule is incomplete in that it fails to define many terms or incorporate fully all information needed to make the proposed rules valid for use EAA summarized The NPRM would place new prohibitive restrictions on private pilots prOVidshying charitable or community event flights There is little supporting data to justify the proposed wideshysweeping changes said Earl Lawrence EAA vice president for inshydustry and regulatory affairs
For example the proposed rule would require a 1920s-era airplane operated at a Midwestern nontowshyered airport to comply with the same operational and documentashytion requirements as a helicopter constructed under current requireshyments and operated in continuous service over the Grand Canyon Nashytional Park That indicates that the authors didnt follow past regulatory practice of producing regulations that are responsive to the wide variety of aircraft and operations conducted in the US EAA summarized
EAA is not insensitive to the conshycerns over air tour operation safety
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The worlds greatest general aviation event EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is launching the next century of flight at EAA AirVenture 2004 July 27shyAugust 2 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh Wisconsin The 52nd annual EAA gathering will AIRVEN14
o S H K a pay special attention to what lies ahead for the
~--world of flight along with recognizing the innovashytions that have led aviation to todays achievements
Over the past decade we have recognized the aviators and aircraft that changed the world over the past 100 years said EAA President and AirVenture Chairman Tom Poberezny This year EAA AirVenture is Launching the Next Censhytury of Flight by looking ahead to the innovations that build on this legacy Some of this new thinking is already becoming reality assuring that the next century of flight will be as remarkable as the first 100 years
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has always been a home for aviation innovation and serves as an inspiration for those who see untapped potential in personal flight and in aviation in general Through the years many unique designs have debuted at the event In addition the people behind the advancements have been welcomed to share their knowledge and inspire others
Most of this knowledge exchange occurs in the more than 500 educational foshyrums seminars and workshops held during the week that cover the entire spectrum of flight Add the more than 700 exhibitors displaying their latest innovashytions and more than 10000 airplanes including the nearly 1000 vintage showplanes that dot the south end of Wittman Field and EAA AirVenture particishypants have an unlimited source of aviation inspiration
Details on specific EAA AirVenture activities as well as aircraft arrival and deshyparture procedures will be announced as they are finalized For the latest information visit wwwairventureorg Housing information is available through the Oshkosh Housing Hotline at 920235-3007 (Monday-Friday 830 am to 5 pm Central time)
voiced by both Congress and the President of Government and RegulashyNTSB prompted by a series of tory Affairs Earl Lawrence and crashes involving air tour operation Director of Aircraft Maintenance many of which occurred in Hawaii Daryl Lenz VAA Executive Director However EAA does object to the HG Frautschy is working with Lenz added restrictions proposed the lack and Lawrence on developing the list of supportive data for those addishy of approved substitutes tional restrictions and the confusing The committee works with the format in which the new restrictions FAA Small Airplane Directorate to deshywere incorporated into the FARs in velop materials that help small this NPRM aircraft owners maintain and restore
their aircraft EAA Leads Aging Aircraft Discussion centered on developing Discussion an AC that will provide aircraft ownshy
Work on an FAA Advisory Circular ers with a common-sense document (AC) for documenting approved subshy that will make it easier to obtain apshystitute standard parts and materials provals for replacement parts while was conducted at a December meetshy they are maintaining their aircraft ing of the FAA Aging Aircraft Ad Hoc The committee hopes to develop a Committee held in Kansas City Misshy draft AC for FAA internal review in souri Representing EAA were Vice continued on page 27
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 3
2003 VINTAGE HALL OF FAME
NICK REZICH
A viation is often a famshyily interest and that was certainly true on the south side of
Chicago where the Rezich family was living during the golden age of aviation The boys Frank Nick and Mike haunted the nearby Chicago Municipal Airport (later Midway Airport) and built rubbershypowered models of many of the airplanes of the day
Nick Rezich soloed a Waco RNF in 1933 at age 14 beginning a lifelong career in-and love ofshyfull-size aviation He worked for Benny Howard at Howard Aircraft in Chicago and attained the posishytion of plant manager before being pressed into military service in World War II
Following the war he founded
Nicks other passion in life besides airpLanes was playing the drums His role model was Gene Krupa All the brothers were musically inclined with Mike playing trumpet and Frank playing the saxophone In high school they were known as the Rezich Orchestra
The voice ofEAA at the 1970 Joliet air show sponsored by EAA Chapters 15 101 and 75 The Voice ofEAA was silenced a decade later in 1981 after a battle with throat cancer
Nicks love ofmusic heLped him when he opened the Pylon Club on 63rd Street on the south side of Chicago Its aviation decor and proxshy
imity to Midway MEMBERSilP CARD Airport made it
a favorite ofloshycals and visiting
o aviators for Z nearly a decade
L __--~_~~~~=Jr__====~ after WWII
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Nick and his wife Joanne in front of the family Travel Air D-4-D used for Nicks air show act and for skywriting Joanne and Nick were marshyried in 19S0
Seven-year-old Frank lO-year-old Nick (mugging for the camera) and lS-year-old Mike Rezich behind the family home on Laflin Avenue in Chicago circa 1930 The model on the ground in front of the boys is the Spirit ofst Louis
The very first airplane owned by the Rezich family was this Piper E-2 Cub which was purchased by Mike and based at the Ashburn airport in 1936 Since 1936 the family has owned 26 different airplanes
By the time it was possible for Nick to buy an airplane in 1940 World War II was on the horizon Here s Nicks fashyvorite airplane his brand-new Culver Cadet at Howell airport Its blue and silver
and operated the famous aviationshythemed tavern near Midway Airport the Pylon Club
With his brother Frank he deshysigned and built the Rezich Brothers Special a Goodyear-class racer in the late 1940s The airshyplane would be one of the first donations to the EAA Museum in Hales Corners
Nick continued to build on his flying skills and flew charter for Bluebird Air Service at Midway in various planes including a Waspshypowered Bellanca and a Lockheed
12 He also did barnstorming with his brothers in the family Travel Air and Pitcairn
After the war he also flew for Morton Salt and International Harshyvester and began taking on skywriting jobs
He served as the president of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Nick (EAA 225) was a strong supporter of EAA during its early days proshymoting the organization at the Pylon Club and participating in early fly-ins and air shows He ofshyten flew and announced for free
since early EAA Chapter budgets were so lean that it was hard to even come up with the funds to buy awards for the participants
He also used his booming voice over the public address system to describe the maneuvers the pilots were flying and soon became known as the Voice of EAA He was also the master of ceremonies for many of the early EAA evening programs especially during the Rockford era
In the early 1950s Nick moved continued on page 26
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5
PASS IT TO BUCK
BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 UNION IL 60180
Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
FEBRUARY 2004
When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
With that Its over to you I(
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
Joe Maguire Canton Ohio
BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
This was a very popular mod in the Rowles Bemidji Minnesota
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
THE VINTAGE INSTRU
Charting a Course Keeping oriented in the digital world
DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
Read more about Dougs work at wwwdsflightcom VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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BUDD DAVISSON
birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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LAKE ALMANOR CA 96137
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21910 S GARDNER ROAD
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25575 BUTTERNUT RIDGE ROAD
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Cessna 195 International Club BOB REISS PRESIDENT
9493 LA JOLLA FARMS ROAD
LA JOLLA CA 92037
858- 457-5987 FAX 858-552-8453
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723 BAKER DR
TOMBALL TX 77375 281-351-0114
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60 SKYWOOD WAY WOODSIDE CA 94062
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NEWSLTR CULVERS GOING PLACES ( 3 ) 16 PG
Culver Dart Club LLOYD WASHBURN 2656 EAST SAND ROAD
POINT CLINTON OH 43452-2741 419-734-6685
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Culver PQ-14 Assoc TED HEINEMAN
29621 KENSINGTON DRIVE
LAGUNA NIGUEL CA 92677
949-495-4540
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SHALOTTE NC 28470-7117
VOICEFAX 9 10-575-2758
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6262 BREVER ROAD BURLINGTON WI 53105-8915
262- 539-2495
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CANNON FALLS MN 55009 507-263-24 14
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938- 2773 FAX 641-938-2093 E-MAIL AintiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER FAIRCHILD FAN (3) 16 PG
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MARLBOROUGH CT 06447-0511 860-267-6562
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Funk Aircraft Owners Association THAD SHELNUTT
2836 CALIFORNIA Av
CARMICHAEL CA 95608
916-971-3452
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P O Box 127
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641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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NEWSLETTER GREAT LAKES LOG (3) 16 PG
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STEW WILSON
PO B ox 1531
CAMERON PARK CA 95682-1531
530-676-4292
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Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association GREG TYRELL PRESIDENT
PO Box 774
WOODSTOCK ON CANADA N4S 8A2
5 1 9-633-0053
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122 E MAIN STREET PO Box 10
WEYAUWEGA WI 54983
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PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 64 1-938-2093
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NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
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6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
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PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
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1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
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10251 E CENTRAL AVE
DEL REY CA 93616
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Meyers Aircraft Owners Association WILLIAM E GAFFNEY SECRETARY
24 RT 17K
NEWBURGH NY 12550 845-565-8005 FAX 845-565-8039
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1218 KINGSTOWNE PLACE
ST CHAR LES MO 63304-7776 636- 939- 3322
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Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association 140 HEIMER RD SUITE 560
SAN ANTONIO TX 78232 210-525-8008 FAX 210-525-8085
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100 S WESTWOOD ST 2 PORTEVILLE CA 93257- 7704
559-782-1980
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2380 COUNTRY ROAD 217
CHEYENNE WY 82009 307-638-2210 E-MAIL wyn3naolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
American Navion Society 16420 SE MCGILLIVRAY 103 VANCOUVER WA 98683-3461
360-833-9921 FAX 360-833-1074 E-MAIL Flynavionyahoocom WEB wwwnavionsocietyorg DUES $50 IYR US $54 CANADA
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Navion Skies Type Club RALEIGH MORROW
PO Box 2678
LODI CA 95241-2678 209-482-7754
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221 N LASALLE ST STE 3 11 7
CHICAGO IL 60601
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International Pietenpol Association ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLETTER IPA NEWS (3) 16 PG
Cherokee Pilots Assoc P O Box 1996
LUTZ FL 33549 813-948-3616 OR 800-292- 6003
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Cub Club STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027 262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Flying Apache Assoc (Piper) JOHN J LUMLEY
6778 SKYLINE DRIVE
DELRAY BEACH FL 33446
561-499-1115
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International Comanche Society GAYNOR EKMAN
5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
BETHANY OK 73008 405-491-0321 FAX 405-491-0325
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Short Wing Piper Club Inc ELEANOR AND BOB MILLS EDITORS
220 MAIN STREET
HALSTEAD KS 67056 316-835-3650
FAX 316-835-3357
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Supercuborg-Home of all things PAIS STEVE JOHNSON 953 S SHORE DRIVE
LAKE WAUKOMIS MO 64151 816-741-1486 FAX 816-741-5212
E-MAIL stevesupercuborg WEB wwwsupercuborg DUES DONATIONS
Porterfield Airplane Club CHUCK LEBRECHT 91 HICKORY Loop
OCALA FL 34472 352-687-4859
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Rearwin Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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19 STONEYBROOK LN SEARCY AR 72143-6129
501-268-9875
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1-26 Association (Schweizer) JAMES PHOENIX
6815 185TH AvE E
BONNEY LAKE WA 98390 203-894-8582
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Staggerwing Club JIM GORMAN PRESIDENT PO Box 202
COLUMBIANA OH 44408 419-529-3822
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DUES $251YR US $30 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
Stearman Restorers Association 7000 MERRILL AvE Box 90
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2264 Los ROBLES ROAD
MEADOW VISTA CA 95722
520-878-0219
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NEWSLETTER 11 PER YEAR
National Stinson Club GEORGE ALLEMAN
1229 RISING HILL ROAD WEST
PLACERVILLE CA 95667
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NEWSLETTER 4 PER YEAR
Stinson Historical and Restoration Society ( STINSON 108 ANTIQUE AIRPLANE ASSN)
ROBERT TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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Swift AssociationlSwift Museum Fdn Inc CHARLIE NELSON
P O Box 644
ATHENS TN 37371
423-745-9547 FAX 423-745-9869
E-MAIL swiftlychsaolcom WEB wwwswiftpartscom OR wwwglobetimcoswiftcom DUES $30 PER YEAR
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West Coast Swift Wing MARK KADRACH
2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
SAN HOSE CA 95135 408-259-9971
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Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
E-MAIL tocprezyahoocom WEB wwwtaylorcraftorg DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
VirginiaCarolinas Taylorcraft Owners Club TOM PITTMAN
RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
E-MAIL vctoc6junocom WEB wwwvctocorg DUES $10 PER YEAR
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Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E- MAl L AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER TRAVEL AIR TAILS (3) 16 PG
Travel Air Restorers Association (TARA) JERRY IMPELLEZZERI
4925 WILMA WAY
SAN JOSE CA 95124
408-356-3407
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Travel Air Div of Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc LORRAINE CARTER
P O Box 550
TULLAHOMA TN 37388
931-455-1974 FAX 931-455-1994
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American Waco Club PHIL COULSON
2815 SPRINGBROOK DR
LAWTON M I 49065
269-624-6490
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National Waco Club ANDY HEINS
2241 EQu ESTR IAN DR 1 A
MIAMISBURG OH 45342
937 - 312- 0291
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1790 PANAY CIRCLE
COSTA MESA CA 92626
714-920-9226
E-MAIL flywacojuno com Du ES $5 PER YEAR
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Florida Antique Biplane Assoc Inc LARRY ROBINSON
10906 DENOEU ROAD
BOYNTON BEACH FL 33437
561-732-3250 FAX 561-732-2532
E-MAIL BeyeViewaolcom DUES $48 YEAR
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PO Box 470350
TULSA OK 74147-0350
918-622-8400 FAX 918-665-0039
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North American Trainer Association (T6 T28 NA64 NA50 P51 B25)
KATHY amp STONEY STONICH
25801 NE H INNESS ROAD
BRUSH PRAIRIE WA 98606
360-256-0066 FAX 360-896-5398
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Taildragger Club ASA DEAN
16216 N 34TH WAY
PHOENIX AZ 85032-3119 CELL 602-622-8335
E-MAIL asataildraggercluborg wwwtaildraggercluborgtdc
WWI Aeroplanes Inc LEONARD OPDYCKE
15 CRESCENT ROAD POUGHKEEPSIE NY 12601
845-473-3679
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American Aviation Historical Society BRUCE CUNNINGHAM
2333 OTIS STREET
SANTA ANA CA 92704
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14329 S CALHOUN AVE
BURNHAM IL 60633 708-862-1014
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Eastern Reg US Air Racing Assoc JACK DIANISKA PRESIDENT 26726 HENRY ROAD
BAY VILLAGE OH 44140 440-871-3781
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Flying Farmers International PO Box 9124
WICHITA KS 67277-0124 316-943-4234 FAX 800-266-5415
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Flying Octogenarians HERBERT SLOANE PO Box 11114 MONTGOMERY AL 36111-0114 334-832-2413 E-MAIL pilotherbyahoocom DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
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International Uaison Pilot ampAircraft Assoc BILL STRATTON 16518 LEDGESTONE SAN ANTONIO TX 78332-2406 210-490-4572 VOicEFAx E-MAIL ILPASTlCNET wwwcentercompcomILPAindexhtml DUES $29YR US $35 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER LIAISON SPOKEN HERE
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International Wheelchair Aviators po Box 2799 BIG BEAR CITY CA 92314 909-585-9663 FAX 909-585-7156 E-MAIL iwaviatorsaolcom WEB wwwwheelchairaviatorsorg
International Women in Aviation DR PEGGY J CHABRIAN 101 CORSAIR DRIVE DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114 386-226-7996 FAX 386-226-7998 WEBSITE wwwwaiorg DUES $39 PER YEAR - $29 STUDENTS MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
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National Air Racing Group BETTY SHERMAN 1932 MAHAN AVENUE RICHLAND WA 99352-2121 509- 946-5690 E-MA IL bettyshermanverizonnet WEBSITE wwwwarbirdaeropresscom DUES $15 US$20 OUTSIDE US NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
National Association of Priest Pilots MEL HEMANN 127 KASPEND PLACE CEDAR FALLS IA 50613-1683 319-266-3889 E-MAIL n298mhcfunet DUES $20 NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
The 99s Women Pilots 4300 AMELIA EARHART ROAD OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73159 800-994-1929 FAX 405-685-7985 E-MAIL IHQ99sCSCOM WEB wwwninety-ninesorg DUES $65 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER BI-MONTHLY
ox-s Aviation Pioneers ELMER H HANSEN NATL SECRETARY 12220 NE 39TH STR EET BELLEVUE WA 98005-1217 425-885-0299 E-MAIL elmerhansenverizonnet WEB wwwox5pioneersorg DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Piper Aviation Museum Foundation DAN SHOWAN ONE PIPER WAY LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0052 570-748-8283 FAX 570-893-8357 E-MAIL pipercubkcnetorg WEBSITE wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $30 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Replica Fighters Association 1528 S KOELLER PMB 111 OSHKOSH WI 54902 E-MAIL presidentreplicafightersorg WEBSITE wwwreplicafightersorg DUES $25 YR $30 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS ) NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven Inc JOHN L BUCHAN FLY- IN DIRECTOR P O Box J-3 LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0496 570-893-4200 FAX 570-893-4218 E-MAIL Pipercubkcnetorg wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $10 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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Under pressure from EAA and other industry representatives the FAA has extended the comment peshyriod on its potentially devastating National Air Tour Safety Standards notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) 90 days to April 19 2004
Published in late October in the name of safety the NPRM imposes restrictive regulations on the air tour industry that the provided data do not support In preparing its official comments EAA is calling on FAA to recall the NPRM and propose a new one that incorporates the comments and concerns of the operators and public If enacted as now proposed the regulations would force a signifshyica nt number of owners and operators out of business and would ground historically significant airshycraft because their owners couldnt comply with them
The proposed rule is incomplete in that it fails to define many terms or incorporate fully all information needed to make the proposed rules valid for use EAA summarized The NPRM would place new prohibitive restrictions on private pilots prOVidshying charitable or community event flights There is little supporting data to justify the proposed wideshysweeping changes said Earl Lawrence EAA vice president for inshydustry and regulatory affairs
For example the proposed rule would require a 1920s-era airplane operated at a Midwestern nontowshyered airport to comply with the same operational and documentashytion requirements as a helicopter constructed under current requireshyments and operated in continuous service over the Grand Canyon Nashytional Park That indicates that the authors didnt follow past regulatory practice of producing regulations that are responsive to the wide variety of aircraft and operations conducted in the US EAA summarized
EAA is not insensitive to the conshycerns over air tour operation safety
FEBRUARY 2004
The worlds greatest general aviation event EAA AirVenture Oshkosh is launching the next century of flight at EAA AirVenture 2004 July 27shyAugust 2 at Wittman Regional Airport in Oshkosh Wisconsin The 52nd annual EAA gathering will AIRVEN14
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Over the past decade we have recognized the aviators and aircraft that changed the world over the past 100 years said EAA President and AirVenture Chairman Tom Poberezny This year EAA AirVenture is Launching the Next Censhytury of Flight by looking ahead to the innovations that build on this legacy Some of this new thinking is already becoming reality assuring that the next century of flight will be as remarkable as the first 100 years
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh has always been a home for aviation innovation and serves as an inspiration for those who see untapped potential in personal flight and in aviation in general Through the years many unique designs have debuted at the event In addition the people behind the advancements have been welcomed to share their knowledge and inspire others
Most of this knowledge exchange occurs in the more than 500 educational foshyrums seminars and workshops held during the week that cover the entire spectrum of flight Add the more than 700 exhibitors displaying their latest innovashytions and more than 10000 airplanes including the nearly 1000 vintage showplanes that dot the south end of Wittman Field and EAA AirVenture particishypants have an unlimited source of aviation inspiration
Details on specific EAA AirVenture activities as well as aircraft arrival and deshyparture procedures will be announced as they are finalized For the latest information visit wwwairventureorg Housing information is available through the Oshkosh Housing Hotline at 920235-3007 (Monday-Friday 830 am to 5 pm Central time)
voiced by both Congress and the President of Government and RegulashyNTSB prompted by a series of tory Affairs Earl Lawrence and crashes involving air tour operation Director of Aircraft Maintenance many of which occurred in Hawaii Daryl Lenz VAA Executive Director However EAA does object to the HG Frautschy is working with Lenz added restrictions proposed the lack and Lawrence on developing the list of supportive data for those addishy of approved substitutes tional restrictions and the confusing The committee works with the format in which the new restrictions FAA Small Airplane Directorate to deshywere incorporated into the FARs in velop materials that help small this NPRM aircraft owners maintain and restore
their aircraft EAA Leads Aging Aircraft Discussion centered on developing Discussion an AC that will provide aircraft ownshy
Work on an FAA Advisory Circular ers with a common-sense document (AC) for documenting approved subshy that will make it easier to obtain apshystitute standard parts and materials provals for replacement parts while was conducted at a December meetshy they are maintaining their aircraft ing of the FAA Aging Aircraft Ad Hoc The committee hopes to develop a Committee held in Kansas City Misshy draft AC for FAA internal review in souri Representing EAA were Vice continued on page 27
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2003 VINTAGE HALL OF FAME
NICK REZICH
A viation is often a famshyily interest and that was certainly true on the south side of
Chicago where the Rezich family was living during the golden age of aviation The boys Frank Nick and Mike haunted the nearby Chicago Municipal Airport (later Midway Airport) and built rubbershypowered models of many of the airplanes of the day
Nick Rezich soloed a Waco RNF in 1933 at age 14 beginning a lifelong career in-and love ofshyfull-size aviation He worked for Benny Howard at Howard Aircraft in Chicago and attained the posishytion of plant manager before being pressed into military service in World War II
Following the war he founded
Nicks other passion in life besides airpLanes was playing the drums His role model was Gene Krupa All the brothers were musically inclined with Mike playing trumpet and Frank playing the saxophone In high school they were known as the Rezich Orchestra
The voice ofEAA at the 1970 Joliet air show sponsored by EAA Chapters 15 101 and 75 The Voice ofEAA was silenced a decade later in 1981 after a battle with throat cancer
Nicks love ofmusic heLped him when he opened the Pylon Club on 63rd Street on the south side of Chicago Its aviation decor and proxshy
imity to Midway MEMBERSilP CARD Airport made it
a favorite ofloshycals and visiting
o aviators for Z nearly a decade
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Nick and his wife Joanne in front of the family Travel Air D-4-D used for Nicks air show act and for skywriting Joanne and Nick were marshyried in 19S0
Seven-year-old Frank lO-year-old Nick (mugging for the camera) and lS-year-old Mike Rezich behind the family home on Laflin Avenue in Chicago circa 1930 The model on the ground in front of the boys is the Spirit ofst Louis
The very first airplane owned by the Rezich family was this Piper E-2 Cub which was purchased by Mike and based at the Ashburn airport in 1936 Since 1936 the family has owned 26 different airplanes
By the time it was possible for Nick to buy an airplane in 1940 World War II was on the horizon Here s Nicks fashyvorite airplane his brand-new Culver Cadet at Howell airport Its blue and silver
and operated the famous aviationshythemed tavern near Midway Airport the Pylon Club
With his brother Frank he deshysigned and built the Rezich Brothers Special a Goodyear-class racer in the late 1940s The airshyplane would be one of the first donations to the EAA Museum in Hales Corners
Nick continued to build on his flying skills and flew charter for Bluebird Air Service at Midway in various planes including a Waspshypowered Bellanca and a Lockheed
12 He also did barnstorming with his brothers in the family Travel Air and Pitcairn
After the war he also flew for Morton Salt and International Harshyvester and began taking on skywriting jobs
He served as the president of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Nick (EAA 225) was a strong supporter of EAA during its early days proshymoting the organization at the Pylon Club and participating in early fly-ins and air shows He ofshyten flew and announced for free
since early EAA Chapter budgets were so lean that it was hard to even come up with the funds to buy awards for the participants
He also used his booming voice over the public address system to describe the maneuvers the pilots were flying and soon became known as the Voice of EAA He was also the master of ceremonies for many of the early EAA evening programs especially during the Rockford era
In the early 1950s Nick moved continued on page 26
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5
PASS IT TO BUCK
BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 UNION IL 60180
Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
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When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
With that Its over to you I(
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
Joe Maguire Canton Ohio
BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
This was a very popular mod in the Rowles Bemidji Minnesota
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
THE VINTAGE INSTRU
Charting a Course Keeping oriented in the digital world
DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
Read more about Dougs work at wwwdsflightcom VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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BUDD DAVISSON
birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17
Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
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OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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JUlY 7-11 Northwest EAA Fly-In Arlington WA (AWO) wwwnweaaorg
JULY 27-AUGUST 2 EM AirVenture Oshkosh Oshkosh WI (OSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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2003 VINTAGE HALL OF FAME
NICK REZICH
A viation is often a famshyily interest and that was certainly true on the south side of
Chicago where the Rezich family was living during the golden age of aviation The boys Frank Nick and Mike haunted the nearby Chicago Municipal Airport (later Midway Airport) and built rubbershypowered models of many of the airplanes of the day
Nick Rezich soloed a Waco RNF in 1933 at age 14 beginning a lifelong career in-and love ofshyfull-size aviation He worked for Benny Howard at Howard Aircraft in Chicago and attained the posishytion of plant manager before being pressed into military service in World War II
Following the war he founded
Nicks other passion in life besides airpLanes was playing the drums His role model was Gene Krupa All the brothers were musically inclined with Mike playing trumpet and Frank playing the saxophone In high school they were known as the Rezich Orchestra
The voice ofEAA at the 1970 Joliet air show sponsored by EAA Chapters 15 101 and 75 The Voice ofEAA was silenced a decade later in 1981 after a battle with throat cancer
Nicks love ofmusic heLped him when he opened the Pylon Club on 63rd Street on the south side of Chicago Its aviation decor and proxshy
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Nick and his wife Joanne in front of the family Travel Air D-4-D used for Nicks air show act and for skywriting Joanne and Nick were marshyried in 19S0
Seven-year-old Frank lO-year-old Nick (mugging for the camera) and lS-year-old Mike Rezich behind the family home on Laflin Avenue in Chicago circa 1930 The model on the ground in front of the boys is the Spirit ofst Louis
The very first airplane owned by the Rezich family was this Piper E-2 Cub which was purchased by Mike and based at the Ashburn airport in 1936 Since 1936 the family has owned 26 different airplanes
By the time it was possible for Nick to buy an airplane in 1940 World War II was on the horizon Here s Nicks fashyvorite airplane his brand-new Culver Cadet at Howell airport Its blue and silver
and operated the famous aviationshythemed tavern near Midway Airport the Pylon Club
With his brother Frank he deshysigned and built the Rezich Brothers Special a Goodyear-class racer in the late 1940s The airshyplane would be one of the first donations to the EAA Museum in Hales Corners
Nick continued to build on his flying skills and flew charter for Bluebird Air Service at Midway in various planes including a Waspshypowered Bellanca and a Lockheed
12 He also did barnstorming with his brothers in the family Travel Air and Pitcairn
After the war he also flew for Morton Salt and International Harshyvester and began taking on skywriting jobs
He served as the president of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Nick (EAA 225) was a strong supporter of EAA during its early days proshymoting the organization at the Pylon Club and participating in early fly-ins and air shows He ofshyten flew and announced for free
since early EAA Chapter budgets were so lean that it was hard to even come up with the funds to buy awards for the participants
He also used his booming voice over the public address system to describe the maneuvers the pilots were flying and soon became known as the Voice of EAA He was also the master of ceremonies for many of the early EAA evening programs especially during the Rockford era
In the early 1950s Nick moved continued on page 26
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PASS IT TO BUCK
BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 UNION IL 60180
Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
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When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
With that Its over to you I(
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
Joe Maguire Canton Ohio
BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
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Charting a Course Keeping oriented in the digital world
DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
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so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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to Rockford Ill inois just as EAA share his love of aviation with had done with its fly-in In Rockshy young people One of the youngshyford he flew for many years for the sters he helped was his son Jim Atwood Vacuum Machine Co Over who would solo a J-3 at age 16 and the co u rse of his career h e flew move on to both AampPIA and ATP nearly 35000 accident-free hours ratings Under his fathers tutelage
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Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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A viation is often a famshyily interest and that was certainly true on the south side of
Chicago where the Rezich family was living during the golden age of aviation The boys Frank Nick and Mike haunted the nearby Chicago Municipal Airport (later Midway Airport) and built rubbershypowered models of many of the airplanes of the day
Nick Rezich soloed a Waco RNF in 1933 at age 14 beginning a lifelong career in-and love ofshyfull-size aviation He worked for Benny Howard at Howard Aircraft in Chicago and attained the posishytion of plant manager before being pressed into military service in World War II
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Nicks other passion in life besides airpLanes was playing the drums His role model was Gene Krupa All the brothers were musically inclined with Mike playing trumpet and Frank playing the saxophone In high school they were known as the Rezich Orchestra
The voice ofEAA at the 1970 Joliet air show sponsored by EAA Chapters 15 101 and 75 The Voice ofEAA was silenced a decade later in 1981 after a battle with throat cancer
Nicks love ofmusic heLped him when he opened the Pylon Club on 63rd Street on the south side of Chicago Its aviation decor and proxshy
imity to Midway MEMBERSilP CARD Airport made it
a favorite ofloshycals and visiting
o aviators for Z nearly a decade
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Nick and his wife Joanne in front of the family Travel Air D-4-D used for Nicks air show act and for skywriting Joanne and Nick were marshyried in 19S0
Seven-year-old Frank lO-year-old Nick (mugging for the camera) and lS-year-old Mike Rezich behind the family home on Laflin Avenue in Chicago circa 1930 The model on the ground in front of the boys is the Spirit ofst Louis
The very first airplane owned by the Rezich family was this Piper E-2 Cub which was purchased by Mike and based at the Ashburn airport in 1936 Since 1936 the family has owned 26 different airplanes
By the time it was possible for Nick to buy an airplane in 1940 World War II was on the horizon Here s Nicks fashyvorite airplane his brand-new Culver Cadet at Howell airport Its blue and silver
and operated the famous aviationshythemed tavern near Midway Airport the Pylon Club
With his brother Frank he deshysigned and built the Rezich Brothers Special a Goodyear-class racer in the late 1940s The airshyplane would be one of the first donations to the EAA Museum in Hales Corners
Nick continued to build on his flying skills and flew charter for Bluebird Air Service at Midway in various planes including a Waspshypowered Bellanca and a Lockheed
12 He also did barnstorming with his brothers in the family Travel Air and Pitcairn
After the war he also flew for Morton Salt and International Harshyvester and began taking on skywriting jobs
He served as the president of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Nick (EAA 225) was a strong supporter of EAA during its early days proshymoting the organization at the Pylon Club and participating in early fly-ins and air shows He ofshyten flew and announced for free
since early EAA Chapter budgets were so lean that it was hard to even come up with the funds to buy awards for the participants
He also used his booming voice over the public address system to describe the maneuvers the pilots were flying and soon became known as the Voice of EAA He was also the master of ceremonies for many of the early EAA evening programs especially during the Rockford era
In the early 1950s Nick moved continued on page 26
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 5
PASS IT TO BUCK
BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 UNION IL 60180
Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
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When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
With that Its over to you I(
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
Joe Maguire Canton Ohio
BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
This was a very popular mod in the Rowles Bemidji Minnesota
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VINTAGE AIRPLANE 7
THE VINTAGE INSTRU
Charting a Course Keeping oriented in the digital world
DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
Read more about Dougs work at wwwdsflightcom VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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BUDD DAVISSON
birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17
Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
SEPTEMBER 4-Marion IN-14th Annual Fly-In Cruise-In Marion Municipal Airport Event feashytures antique classic contemporary homebuilt ultralight amp warbird aircraft and vintage cars trucks motorcycles and tractors Pancake Breakfast Info rayjohnsonFlylnCruiselncom or wwwFlylnCruiseIncom
SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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JUNE 28-27 Rocky Mountain fAA Regional Fly-In l ongmont CO (2V2) wwwrmrfiorg
JUlY 7-11 Northwest EAA Fly-In Arlington WA (AWO) wwwnweaaorg
JULY 27-AUGUST 2 EM AirVenture Oshkosh Oshkosh WI (OSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 27-29 Mid-Eastern EAA Fly-In Marion OH (MNN) wwweaaorg communications eaanews 030522_merfihtml
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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Seven-year-old Frank lO-year-old Nick (mugging for the camera) and lS-year-old Mike Rezich behind the family home on Laflin Avenue in Chicago circa 1930 The model on the ground in front of the boys is the Spirit ofst Louis
The very first airplane owned by the Rezich family was this Piper E-2 Cub which was purchased by Mike and based at the Ashburn airport in 1936 Since 1936 the family has owned 26 different airplanes
By the time it was possible for Nick to buy an airplane in 1940 World War II was on the horizon Here s Nicks fashyvorite airplane his brand-new Culver Cadet at Howell airport Its blue and silver
and operated the famous aviationshythemed tavern near Midway Airport the Pylon Club
With his brother Frank he deshysigned and built the Rezich Brothers Special a Goodyear-class racer in the late 1940s The airshyplane would be one of the first donations to the EAA Museum in Hales Corners
Nick continued to build on his flying skills and flew charter for Bluebird Air Service at Midway in various planes including a Waspshypowered Bellanca and a Lockheed
12 He also did barnstorming with his brothers in the family Travel Air and Pitcairn
After the war he also flew for Morton Salt and International Harshyvester and began taking on skywriting jobs
He served as the president of the OX-5 Aviation Pioneers and Nick (EAA 225) was a strong supporter of EAA during its early days proshymoting the organization at the Pylon Club and participating in early fly-ins and air shows He ofshyten flew and announced for free
since early EAA Chapter budgets were so lean that it was hard to even come up with the funds to buy awards for the participants
He also used his booming voice over the public address system to describe the maneuvers the pilots were flying and soon became known as the Voice of EAA He was also the master of ceremonies for many of the early EAA evening programs especially during the Rockford era
In the early 1950s Nick moved continued on page 26
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PASS IT TO BUCK
BY EE BUCK HILBERT EAA 21 VAA 5 PO Box 424 UNION IL 60180
Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
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When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
With that Its over to you I(
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
Joe Maguire Canton Ohio
BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
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Charting a Course Keeping oriented in the digital world
DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
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so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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BUDD DAVISSON
birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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PO B ox 58 17
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805-922-2580 FAX 805-922-7249
E-MAIL cpacessnaorg WEB wwwcessnaorg DUES $45 US CANADA M EXICO
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612 43330 24 FAX 612433 5691
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830-8 96-7604
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43 7 9 Hwy 147
LAKE ALMANOR CA 96137
530-284-7790
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PO Box 1917
ATASCADERO CA 93423-1917
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Cessna 180185 International Club ( OWNERSHIP REQUIRED)
DAVE HAYDEN
21910 S GARDNER ROAD
SPRING HILL KS 66083 913-884-2187 FAX 913-856-5941
E-MA IL davekingsavionicsnet DUES $20 PER YEAR
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25575 BUTTERNUT RIDGE ROAD
NORTH OLMSTED OH 44070 440-777-4025
ccrabsaolcom or classic195aolcom DUES $15 INITIAL THEN AS REQUIRED
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Cessna 195 International Club BOB REISS PRESIDENT
9493 LA JOLLA FARMS ROAD
LA JOLLA CA 92037
858- 457-5987 FAX 858-552-8453
E-MAIL bobreisslajollafarmscom WEB wwwcessna195org DUEs$25 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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723 BAKER DR
TOMBALL TX 77375 281-351-0114
E-MAIL danngiecom FOR NEWSLETTER AND DUES INFO CONTACT
THE CLUB
Culver Club LARRY Low
60 SKYWOOD WAY WOODSIDE CA 94062
E-MAIL Lawrence_lowhotmailcom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLTR CULVERS GOING PLACES ( 3 ) 16 PG
Culver Dart Club LLOYD WASHBURN 2656 EAST SAND ROAD
POINT CLINTON OH 43452-2741 419-734-6685
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Culver PQ-14 Assoc TED HEINEMAN
29621 KENSINGTON DRIVE
LAGUNA NIGUEL CA 92677
949-495-4540
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SHALOTTE NC 28470-7117
VOICEFAX 9 10-575-2758
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6262 BREVER ROAD BURLINGTON WI 53105-8915
262- 539-2495
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CANNON FALLS MN 55009 507-263-24 14
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938- 2773 FAX 641-938-2093 E-MAIL AintiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER FAIRCHILD FAN (3) 16 PG
International Fleet Club SANDY BROWN
P O Box 511
MARLBOROUGH CT 06447-0511 860-267-6562
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Funk Aircraft Owners Association THAD SHELNUTT
2836 CALIFORNIA Av
CARMICHAEL CA 95608
916-971-3452
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER GREAT LAKES LOG (3) 16 PG
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STEW WILSON
PO B ox 1531
CAMERON PARK CA 95682-1531
530-676-4292
E-MAIL secayaorg WEB wwwayaorg DUES $4750 US $50 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association GREG TYRELL PRESIDENT
PO Box 774
WOODSTOCK ON CANADA N4S 8A2
5 1 9-633-0053
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122 E MAIN STREET PO Box 10
WEYAUWEGA WI 54983
E-MAIL brownlowodaolcom WEB wwwhatzbiplanesorg DUES $20 PER YEAR
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Hatz Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 64 1-938-2093
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NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
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6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
Interstate Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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Luscombe Association STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027
262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
Continental Luscombe Association JIM amp PATTI SANI PRESIDENT amp SECRETARY(TREASURER
10251 E CENTRAL AVE
DEL REY CA 93616
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FORE IGN $35 ( us FUNDS )
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Meyers Aircraft Owners Association WILLIAM E GAFFNEY SECRETARY
24 RT 17K
NEWBURGH NY 12550 845-565-8005 FAX 845-565-8039
DUES POSTAGE FUND DONATION
NEWSLETTER 5-6 PER YEAR
Monocoupe Club FRANK amp CAROL KERNER
1218 KINGSTOWNE PLACE
ST CHAR LES MO 63304-7776 636- 939- 3322
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Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association 140 HEIMER RD SUITE 560
SAN ANTONIO TX 78232 210-525-8008 FAX 210-525-8085
E- MAIL mapamooneypilotscom WEB wwwmooneypilotscom DUES $44 50 US $49 50 FOREIGN
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Western Association of Mooney Mites (WAMM) WM L VANDERSANDE
100 S WESTWOOD ST 2 PORTEVILLE CA 93257- 7704
559-782-1980
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Parrakeet Pilot Club BARRY TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLTR THE PARRAKEET PILOT (3) 16 PGS
N3N Restorers Association H RONALD KEMPKA
2380 COUNTRY ROAD 217
CHEYENNE WY 82009 307-638-2210 E-MAIL wyn3naolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
American Navion Society 16420 SE MCGILLIVRAY 103 VANCOUVER WA 98683-3461
360-833-9921 FAX 360-833-1074 E-MAIL Flynavionyahoocom WEB wwwnavionsocietyorg DUES $50 IYR US $54 CANADA
$64 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
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Navion Skies Type Club RALEIGH MORROW
PO Box 2678
LODI CA 95241-2678 209-482-7754
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Brodhead Pietenpol Association DON CAMPBELL
221 N LASALLE ST STE 3 11 7
CHICAGO IL 60601
WEB wwwpietenpolorg DUES $16 PER YEAR US
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International Pietenpol Association ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLETTER IPA NEWS (3) 16 PG
Cherokee Pilots Assoc P O Box 1996
LUTZ FL 33549 813-948-3616 OR 800-292- 6003
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MAGAZINE 1 1 ISSUES PER YEAR
Cub Club STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027 262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
E-MAIL sskrogaolcom WEB wwwcub-clubcomhomehtm DUES $25 USCANADA $30 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Flying Apache Assoc (Piper) JOHN J LUMLEY
6778 SKYLINE DRIVE
DELRAY BEACH FL 33446
561-499-1115
FAX 561-495-7311
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International Comanche Society GAYNOR EKMAN
5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
BETHANY OK 73008 405-491-0321 FAX 405-491-0325
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NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
Piper Owner Society PO Box 5000
lOLA WI 54945 866-697-4737 866-MYPIPER FAX 715-445-4053
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Short Wing Piper Club Inc ELEANOR AND BOB MILLS EDITORS
220 MAIN STREET
HALSTEAD KS 67056 316-835-3650
FAX 316-835-3357
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Supercuborg-Home of all things PAIS STEVE JOHNSON 953 S SHORE DRIVE
LAKE WAUKOMIS MO 64151 816-741-1486 FAX 816-741-5212
E-MAIL stevesupercuborg WEB wwwsupercuborg DUES DONATIONS
Porterfield Airplane Club CHUCK LEBRECHT 91 HICKORY Loop
OCALA FL 34472 352-687-4859
DUES $5 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Rearwin Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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International Ryan Club BILL HODGES EDITOR AND HISTORIAN
19 STONEYBROOK LN SEARCY AR 72143-6129
501-268-9875
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1-26 Association (Schweizer) JAMES PHOENIX
6815 185TH AvE E
BONNEY LAKE WA 98390 203-894-8582
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Staggerwing Club JIM GORMAN PRESIDENT PO Box 202
COLUMBIANA OH 44408 419-529-3822
E-MAIL sayorkcsicom (STAN YORK )
DUES $251YR US $30 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
Stearman Restorers Association 7000 MERRILL AvE Box 90
CHINO AIRPORT CHINO CA 91710-8800
WEB wwwstearmannet DUES $351YR US $40 CANADA amp MEXICO $45 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS)
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International Stinson Club TONY WRIGHT
2264 Los ROBLES ROAD
MEADOW VISTA CA 95722
520-878-0219
E-MAIL stinson2junocom WEB wwwaeromarcomswschtml DUES $25 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER 11 PER YEAR
National Stinson Club GEORGE ALLEMAN
1229 RISING HILL ROAD WEST
PLACERVILLE CA 95667
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NEWSLETTER 4 PER YEAR
Stinson Historical and Restoration Society ( STINSON 108 ANTIQUE AIRPLANE ASSN)
ROBERT TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
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Swift AssociationlSwift Museum Fdn Inc CHARLIE NELSON
P O Box 644
ATHENS TN 37371
423-745-9547 FAX 423-745-9869
E-MAIL swiftlychsaolcom WEB wwwswiftpartscom OR wwwglobetimcoswiftcom DUES $30 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
West Coast Swift Wing MARK KADRACH
2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
SAN HOSE CA 95135 408-259-9971
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Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
E-MAIL tocprezyahoocom WEB wwwtaylorcraftorg DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
VirginiaCarolinas Taylorcraft Owners Club TOM PITTMAN
RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
E-MAIL vctoc6junocom WEB wwwvctocorg DUES $10 PER YEAR
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Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E- MAl L AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER TRAVEL AIR TAILS (3) 16 PG
Travel Air Restorers Association (TARA) JERRY IMPELLEZZERI
4925 WILMA WAY
SAN JOSE CA 95124
408-356-3407
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Travel Air Div of Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc LORRAINE CARTER
P O Box 550
TULLAHOMA TN 37388
931-455-1974 FAX 931-455-1994
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American Waco Club PHIL COULSON
2815 SPRINGBROOK DR
LAWTON M I 49065
269-624-6490
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National Waco Club ANDY HEINS
2241 EQu ESTR IAN DR 1 A
MIAMISBURG OH 45342
937 - 312- 0291
E-MAIL wacoasoaolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR $25 FOREIGN
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1790 PANAY CIRCLE
COSTA MESA CA 92626
714-920-9226
E-MAIL flywacojuno com Du ES $5 PER YEAR
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Florida Antique Biplane Assoc Inc LARRY ROBINSON
10906 DENOEU ROAD
BOYNTON BEACH FL 33437
561-732-3250 FAX 561-732-2532
E-MAIL BeyeViewaolcom DUES $48 YEAR
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National Biplane Association CHARLES W HARRIS
PO Box 470350
TULSA OK 74147-0350
918-622-8400 FAX 918-665-0039
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North American Trainer Association (T6 T28 NA64 NA50 P51 B25)
KATHY amp STONEY STONICH
25801 NE H INNESS ROAD
BRUSH PRAIRIE WA 98606
360-256-0066 FAX 360-896-5398
E-MAIL NATraineraolcom WEBSITE wwwNorthAmericanTrainerorg DUES $45 US amp CANADA $55 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY NATA SKYLINES
Taildragger Club ASA DEAN
16216 N 34TH WAY
PHOENIX AZ 85032-3119 CELL 602-622-8335
E-MAIL asataildraggercluborg wwwtaildraggercluborgtdc
WWI Aeroplanes Inc LEONARD OPDYCKE
15 CRESCENT ROAD POUGHKEEPSIE NY 12601
845-473-3679
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American Aviation Historical Society BRUCE CUNNINGHAM
2333 OTIS STREET
SANTA ANA CA 92704
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14329 S CALHOUN AVE
BURNHAM IL 60633 708-862-1014
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Eastern Reg US Air Racing Assoc JACK DIANISKA PRESIDENT 26726 HENRY ROAD
BAY VILLAGE OH 44140 440-871-3781
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WICHITA KS 67277-0124 316-943-4234 FAX 800-266-5415
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Flying Octogenarians HERBERT SLOANE PO Box 11114 MONTGOMERY AL 36111-0114 334-832-2413 E-MAIL pilotherbyahoocom DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
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International Wheelchair Aviators po Box 2799 BIG BEAR CITY CA 92314 909-585-9663 FAX 909-585-7156 E-MAIL iwaviatorsaolcom WEB wwwwheelchairaviatorsorg
International Women in Aviation DR PEGGY J CHABRIAN 101 CORSAIR DRIVE DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114 386-226-7996 FAX 386-226-7998 WEBSITE wwwwaiorg DUES $39 PER YEAR - $29 STUDENTS MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
Lake Amphibian Flyers Club MARK amp JILL RODSTE IN 7188 MANDARIN DRIVE BOCA RATON FL 33433-7412 561-483-6566 FAX 561 -892-3128 E- MAIL infolakeflyerscom DUES $58 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
National Air Racing Group BETTY SHERMAN 1932 MAHAN AVENUE RICHLAND WA 99352-2121 509- 946-5690 E-MA IL bettyshermanverizonnet WEBSITE wwwwarbirdaeropresscom DUES $15 US$20 OUTSIDE US NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
National Association of Priest Pilots MEL HEMANN 127 KASPEND PLACE CEDAR FALLS IA 50613-1683 319-266-3889 E-MAIL n298mhcfunet DUES $20 NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
The 99s Women Pilots 4300 AMELIA EARHART ROAD OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73159 800-994-1929 FAX 405-685-7985 E-MAIL IHQ99sCSCOM WEB wwwninety-ninesorg DUES $65 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER BI-MONTHLY
ox-s Aviation Pioneers ELMER H HANSEN NATL SECRETARY 12220 NE 39TH STR EET BELLEVUE WA 98005-1217 425-885-0299 E-MAIL elmerhansenverizonnet WEB wwwox5pioneersorg DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Piper Aviation Museum Foundation DAN SHOWAN ONE PIPER WAY LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0052 570-748-8283 FAX 570-893-8357 E-MAIL pipercubkcnetorg WEBSITE wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $30 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Replica Fighters Association 1528 S KOELLER PMB 111 OSHKOSH WI 54902 E-MAIL presidentreplicafightersorg WEBSITE wwwreplicafightersorg DUES $25 YR $30 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS ) NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Seaplane Pilots Association MICHAEL VOLK 4315 HIGHLAND PARK BLVD SUITE C LAKELAND FL 33813 863- 701 - 7979 FAX 863-701-7588 E- MAIL spaseaplanesorg WEBSITE wwwseaplanesorg DUES $40 PER YEAR MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven Inc JOHN L BUCHAN FLY- IN DIRECTOR P O Box J-3 LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0496 570-893-4200 FAX 570-893-4218 E-MAIL Pipercubkcnetorg wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $10 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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Aging aircraft as well as aging pilots and mechanics
Im beginning to feel like an ancient out-of-touch left-out something or other
Every time I pick up an aviation magazine its full of hi-tech writeshyups that I have a hard time understanding Modern instrumenshytation glass panels sophisticated navigation and collision avoidance systems engine monitors fuel flow in-flight entertainment systems aushytopilots you name it
These all have nothing to do with the flivvers and the fun flyin depicted in this issue Where is the fun and the enjoyment-the sense of adventure the thrill of flying that got me into this to beshygin with
Well in our Vintage organizashytion its still there There is still a core group out there that feels a sense of adventure the thrill of pure flying that is so enjoyable and a delight to the senses They as I do only want release from the hi-tech world and enjoy the simshyplicity of turning a switch to get things going
No programming No perusing the book to find coordinates Just light the fire and go
There is a downside to this simshyplicity though The moderns are sometimes very tolerant of we grandfathers surprisingly so Sometimes I relish the pipe and slippers treatment and the resigshynation they show this old man when l dont understand all the things they talk about On the other hand I feel left out confused and as a stranger in my own backyard
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When the current owner of a neat old Cessna 180 calls and asks what shape my airstrip is in how long what the coordinates are and then tells me a 10-knot crossshywind is a problem for him and elects to drive in I cant but wonshyder He oohs and aahs over my C-3 and the Fleet and then shakes his head in amazement that there are no electrical systems and nothing in the panel
How can I possibly go anyshywhere without anything like that he wonders
Well I have no intention of goshying anywhere I fly for the fun and the pleasure of just being airshyborne looking at the local territory waving at my neighbors and friends and maybe taking someone for a ride
My Model T of an airplane gives me all that I want That first takeoff is really all the reward I need but the subsequent landing and the pure pleasure of what I just accomplished is heaven in itself
Lately too I find myself sitting in the recliner with more than 30 years of the EAA Vintage publications at my side feet up thumbing through the old articles Re-reading long ago written articles some written by long-departed enthusiasts trying to pass on their wisdom and experishyence to others who might have a similar interest
Ive often felt that mans greatshyest invention was the printing press With that invention it was possible to record and pass on for posterity a mans experiences Im
taking advantage of this when I sit in my recliner and go through the collections of the past 30-plus years I start with the stack on one side and as I read through I stack them on the other side When I complete the transfer from the one side to the other I start in all over again
If it were possible for the neoshyphyte Vintage member to push away from his computer with all its pop-ups and nonsensical advershytising and take time to read through this collection of lore and knowledge his reward would be the assimilation of what was learned the hard way by a lot of people who wanted to pass on their experience It would satisfy the thirst that I hear every day in phone calls from people calling for information
I know many of you are not privy to this collection as I am but we do have our EAA Library and lately a CD with all the EAA Sport Aviation articles on it some of which pertain to our kind of activities It is my hope that one day and soon a simshyilar CD for the Vintage publications will exist
Meanwhile though on occasion your editor HG the staff and I will select one of these old artishycles we feel might be of interest and republish it
Im asking for your comments on this Do you feel this would be a worthwhile effort
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earlymid 20s My granddad said it was quite a performer especially when you adjusted the valves on the old OX to 0 clearance to get an exshytra 100 rpm Wow can you imagine 1500 rpm
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BY HG FRAUTSCHY Richard S Allen of Lewiston Idaho looked up the abstract on
NOVEMBERS MYSTERY ANSWER the airplane and came up with the following details
The Standard J-1 was Serial No N-109 powered by a Curtiss OX-5 Serial Number 3972 It didnt last long in civilian hands Sold by the Nicholas-Beazley Airplane Co of Marshall Missouri on March 20 1927 it was sold on June 27 to a partnership of George Kimball and Glen Sayers ofAdair Illinois [In his correspondence member Lynn Towns ofHolt Michigan adds the name of Herman Chenoweth of Table Grove Illinois to the partnership It was reported that not even a month later on July 13 1927 that it was comshy
Our November Mystery Plane The November Mystery Plane is a pletely destroyed a few days ago tied supplied by Jim Haynes was a J-1 Standard with the fuselage shortshy to a fence and hit by a strong windshyfairly common airplane in its day ened and the wings clipped A frontal storm turned over and completely but this one was a bit different view of it would reveal the upper and destroyed than the rest As a few of our memshy lower wings are of equal length and Other correct answers were reshybers noted it had both the wings the airfoil was also modified with ceived from Thomas Lymburn and fuselage modified more camber for a high lift airfoil Princeton Minnesota and John
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As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
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so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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DOUG STEWART
As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
Read more about Dougs work at wwwdsflightcom VINTAGE AIRPLANE 9
so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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BUDD DAVISSON
birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
BUDD DAVISSON
his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
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Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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As an ardent supporter of the FAA Wings proshygram of recurrent training I feel that it is important that I not only give safety seminars and flight training in support of the program but that I undergo the training myself I deshy
cided therefore to stop in North Carolina (on a flight to Florida) to fly the three hours of training required for the Wings program with Guy Maher whom I consider the foremost instructor for the Cessna Cardinal I was flying my 1974 Cardinal RG to Florida (for a Thanksgivshying celebration with two of my sons) rather than my PA-12 because I wanted to still be a vintage instructor when I reached Florida and not an antique instructor
After a great deal of creative scheduling adjustments Guy and I were able to come up with a workable plan I would depart early on a Tuesday morning and get to Salshyisbury North Carolina with sufficient time to complete the training before his prior commitments kicked in later in the afternoon
Of course this was all dependent upon decent VFR weather in North Carolina The week prior to Thanksshygiving the prog charts were not promising A cold front was taking its time traveling across the country On Sunday I was not too expectant of making the stop in North Carolina and was thus starting to firm up Plan B of a direct flight to Florida on Wednesday But 10 and behold on Monday the front hurried up We were getshyting rain in New England and it looked as if the flight the next day would be in severe clear although someshywhat bumpy air
Arising early Tuesday morning I got my briefing which confirmed the previous days prediction It would be CAVU (ceiling and visibility unlimited) all the way with some moderate turbulence particularly as I paralleled the lee side of the Appalachians The temperatures reflected the cold fronts passage It was in the low 20s Then in the dawns early light I could see something white all over my car in the yard Uh oh the Cardinal is tied down and not hangared When did the rain turn to snow and how quickly We might have a problem here I thought to myself as I drove to the airport where the Cardinal is based
Unfortunately the problem was much worse than I
had thought As I drove west across the Taconic ridge that separates my home from my airshyplane the snow depth got deeper rather than shalshylower Arriving at the airport I realized that my Cardinal was covered with 1S inches of frozen snow The kind that doesnt brush off The kind that doesnt bang off The kind that stays stuck until the temperature raises enough for it to melt There was no way this stuff was going to come off unless I could get the airplane in a heated hangar After an hour and a half of struggling to de-ice the airplane the owner of the heated hangar at the airport showed up Moving the Cardinal into the hangar yielded an ice-free aircraft in less than another half-hour
But now I was two hours behind schedule I had planned to fly IFR even though VFR conditions preshyvailed That way I wouldnt have to worry about any temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) in particular the presidential retreat at Camp David which I knew lay close to my route Flying IFR on cross-country flights is the easiest way to pass the burden of airspace incursion on to Air Traffic Control relieving the pilot of that chore If I were to fly the IFR routing it took me west of Camp David and what with the head winds I would be encountering it was doubtful that I would get to Guy in time to complete the training before he ran out of time
There was only one solution GPS direct My Cardishynal is equipped with a panel-mounted Garmin GNS 430 and a yoke-mounted 196 I will typically keep the 430 on the primary navigation page and the 196 on a page that is split with a moving map and a horizontal situashytion indicator (HSI) As the engine warmed up I programmed the two GPS units I scrolled the map just far enough to see that Camp David would indeed be a concern warning me of the need to be extra careful when I got west of Baltimore In my operational error of being in a hurry I was also beginning to forge the chain of what could become a bad situation I was behind
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schedule and fixating on avoiding Camp David As I leveled off at 4500 feet for my southwesterly
route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
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so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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BUDD DAVISSON
birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17
Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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route the prediction of slow ground speeds was holding true but at least the turbulence was nothing more than light chop most of the time with just an occasional moderate II bump The visibility was that wonderful seshyvere clear that often follows a cold front passage Reaching southeastern Pennsylvania I scrolled my moving map out and saw that r would pass just far enough east of Camp David so as to not violate that Prohibited airspace Checkshying my ETA on the GPS showed that Id barely have time to drain my sumps before my appointment with Guy but at least I would be on time I had yet to realize that complacency another one of those operational errors was at work strengthening the chain
r typically fly with the moving map on my GPS set to a 20- to 35- In my operational navigation have for us Although I mile scale but because I wanted to bullbull teach a seminar on these many see my proximity to the Prohibited error of being In a hurry traps I almost fell into one of them airspace I had zoomed in to 10 myself When we zoom in on the miles I should know of all people I was also beginning to map scale there is often little or (since I teach in my GPS seminars no warning of airspace incursion about the trap of airspace incurshy forge the chain of what Furthermore if we are operating sion) that when operating a moving with some of the older units the reshymap on a GPS one needs to be espeshy could become a draw of the map might be so slow as cially vigilant to the airspace that to allow us to penetrate that air shylies just ahead beyond the limits of bad situation space before the moving map
chart in my lap) I Circumnavigated the arc until I could fly in a straight line on to my destination arriving there with just minutes to spare before my appOintment
There were many lessons to be learned on this flight Perhaps the most important one is that we should never be in a hurry The minute we get behind schedule it beshycomes too easy to overlook or disregard important bits of information There is a reason for the saying Time to spare go by air If we cant accept that mentality then we are setting the stage for disaster We should never allow an appointment or an expected time of arshyrival to dictate the flight We have to have the flexibility in our planning to allow us to either cancel the appointshyment we are trying to make or cancel the flight
Another lesson has to do with bull the traps that reliance on GPS
the picture on the screen As a dark curved line indicating
the Mode C veil around the Washington Class B airshyspace started to move down the map from the top of the screen I thought to myself that Potomac Approach with whom I was getting advisories at the time should soon be clearing me into the Class B Yikes You idiot The DC ADIZ I silently screamed at myself In my fixshyation on Camp David in my being in a hurry and wanting to take the shortest line in my complacency I had completely forgotten about the rest of the route Had I continued in a straight line I would have busted directly into the air defense identification zone (ADIZ) as I overflew just west of Dulles I had completely forgotshyten that the airspace around Washington DC after September 11 was now an ADIZ It required a special VFR flight plan to enter the airspace
I could just see the story now Pilot escorted out of ADIZ by military aircraft is not just an ordinary pilot but a Master Instructor and Designated Examiner How would I ever explain and would it be a suspension or worse yet a revocation Im too old to consider starting a new career
Thanks to the marvel of modern technology I was able to place the cursor on my moving map at the apex of the curve of the line depicting the Mode C veil push the direct to button on the GPS and get instant navishygation information to aid in not penetrating the ADIZ Then using the depiction of the arc of the veil on the moving map (and confirming the information with the
indicates it Certainly backing up our usage of the GPS map with a
chart in our lap will aid in aVOiding that trap But if that chart does not have a course line drawn on it (as mine did not due to my being in a hurry) the trap is sti ll wide open
On this flight I had been requesting and receiving flight following from air traffic control But we must re shymember that ATCs primary responsibility is to provide separation for IFR aircraft Their assistance to VFR airshycraft is only on an available basis Therefore we cannot rely on ATC to keep us from penetrating specialshyuse airspace even TFRs even the DC ADIZ Would Potomac Approach have warned me of my impending violation Im not so sure it would have
So when planning any flight do not let an ETA force you to rush your planning or for that matter embark on or continue the flight Always have a Plan B and be sure that plan is thoroughly thought out as well Do not put your sole reliance for navigation in that little GPS clamped to your yoke (or that big one mounted in the panel for that matter) Always carry charts with your course line drawn on them Request flight following whenever pOSSible but do not count on ATC to keep you clear of special-use airspace That is why you got a thorough briefing prior to the flight That is why you have a chart in your lap Doing these things will help you transition from being a good pilot to being a great pilot As you can see Im still working at it myself
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so many times when we talk about a restored anshytique airplane we begin by explaining that there were so few original parts reshy
maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17
Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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maining that it made more sense to throw the airplane away and restore the basket it came in Today data plate airplanes are so common we dont even bother to get an incredushylous look on our face when we find all thats left of the original is the cleshyvis pin holding a tail wire
And then there are antique birds like Jim Hammonds 1931 C-3 Aeronca In 72 years of life the wings have been reshycovered only twice and the fuselage once And it was never a derelict In fact if you ignore the 72 years since its
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birth you could say that condition-wise it has barely drifted down into the used airplane category
Hammonds airplane is unique not because of the massive effort that went into restoring it but because so little restoration has been done It is 1931 aviation in its purest form
The airplane is also unique for a totally different reason however Hammond is only the third owner which is interesting but what makes his airplane really interesting is that the first owner was Jean Roche the original designer of the C-3 and the recognized father of light aviation For over 34 years Hammonds C-3 was Roches personal airplane
During the 1920s when big hulkshy
ing biplanes typified civil aviation Roche and two friends John Dosche and Harold Morehouse were busy buckjng the trend They were young and were seriously infected with the aviation bug But they were also broke They not only couldnt afford to buy any of the available airplanes but even if they managed to acquire one they couldnt afford to keep it in gasoline and oil It was a common dilemma The world was catching the aviation fever but the size and costs of the average airplane made flying available only to the rich The common man was being left on the ground And Jean Roche for one didnt like that
Roche and his friends didnt have
the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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the money but they wanted to fly So they became what all people beshycome when the want of aviation overpowers common sense they beshycame homebuilders
With the exception of the Wright brothers (the original homebuilders) aircraft designers generally have an engine around which they can design the airshyplane That wasnt the case with Roche however For his airplane to be economical it had to be small and light and the engine had to be the same Based on the parameters of the airplane he was designing he only needed a 25-hp engine to fly But there were no engines in that horsepower category that were light enough So what does a home-
builder do when he finds a particushylar part isnt readily available He builds it Thats exactly what they did Harold Morehouse designed and built a two-cylinder horizonshytally opposed engine that fit perfectly in the pug nose of the airplane Roche had designed
Lets put the concept of some amashyteurs building an engine in pershyspective the concept of the automoshybile and its internal combustion engine was barely 25 years old The
Wright boys had done their thing only two decades earlier but here were a trio of young men in their twenties with little or no money deciding to build not only an airplane but the engine too No one can say the guys lacked confidence
Amazingly enough Morehouse hit the right combinations right out of the gate and his homemade 25-hp engine ran beautifully and the pregnant-lookshying Roche design flew well too
It would take an entire book to adshyequately tell the Roche Aeronca story but from 1928 through 1931 through the Aeronautical Corporashytion of America (Aeronca) Roche was central to introducing his little airshyplane dubbed the C-2 to the public [n 1931 the two-place C-3 joined the single-place C-2 Morehouse and his original engine had gone another dishyrection and were never part of the Aeronca product line partially beshycause a crash badly damaged the original engine However even beshyfore Aeronca entered the picture Roche had fellow mechanicsengishyneers Roy Poole and Robert Galloway take the Morehouse concept and a few salvageable parts and design a new engine This engine became the Aeronca E-107 (26 horsepower) and later evolved into the famous E-I13 (36 horsepower)
It says something about the passhy
sion attached to aviation to think that as the country was spiraling down into a debilitating depression here was a fledgling company preparing to launch a product line that could hardly be defined as necshyessary for an individuals existence Part of America was selling pencils on street corners while another plotshyted how they could buy one of Aeronca s little airplanes
The first two years of production saw 160 C-2s flutter out the door Although Roche reportedly wasnt crazy about all the changes being made to his super-lightweight (390 pounds) design he still requested that one of the new C-3s be reserved in his name So in the spring of 1932 jean Roche became the proud owner of NC12407 which had actually been built in the fall of 1931 The company had tried to deliver an airshyplane to him earlier but the sales manager was killed show boating in it for a small crowd Because of the accident and the pressure of the deshypression the company charged Roche $1500 nearly retail for the airplane which he had designed
The airplane that eventually was going to wend its way into jim Hamshymonds hands led an interesting life partially because Roche had to put it to work to pay for it and partially beshycause he was still a designer at heart and wanted to try new things
Roche put the airplane in the rental stable of AI johnson who was managing the Vandalia Ohio ajrshyport for flight training use The rental fee was $5 per hour half of which went to Roche Eight hundred hours later after teaching dozens of students to fly being damaged in a spot landing contest (it snagged a fence and wound up on its back) and becoming an integral part of an airport community the little airshyplane was paid off
Ever in search of more performshyance with no accompanying cost Roche designed and tested a singleshywheel landing gear for the airplane The small wheels from a childs tricyshycle were bolted to the wing tips to act as out-riggers and a single bal-
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
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Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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loon tire was mounted under the centerline of the fuselage Besides saving something like 40 pounds (a healthy amount for such a little bird) the elimination of the drag genershyated by big main gear tires and struts upped the top speed from 80 to 90 mph Anxious to prove the concept the airplane was entered in a race in Chicago and came in third despite the fact that all of its competition was much higher powered A Johnson airspeed indicator is mounted on
While the mono-wheelthe brace wires on the right s ide a much
yielded some benefits it was handier location than on the instrument judged just a little too weirdpanel In flight the upper half of the panel (something about falling over can be difficult to see on landing) and never apshy
proached production status Another test involved
the Frazier propeller This was a little-known autoshymatic variable-pitch prop that apparently worked on a principle similar to an Aeromatic
One of the more bizarre tests involved an investigashytion into ways of getting airplanes off the ground without requiring convenshytional runways The test crew anchored a cable seshycurely to a pivot in theThe wing is braced by a set of streamlined brace middle of Wright Field and
wires which attach on the upper end at this Ashydevised a method of atshy
frame cabane strut It also makes for a handy taching the cable tolocation to mount the pitot tube Roches little airplane
which included a quick release mechanism not unlike a tow hook but it was aimed down the left wing The theory was that rather than usshying a linear runway theyd use a small circular one and depend upon the cable to tether the airplane into a circular path Sounds outlandish except it actually worked They even found the pilot could control the tension on the cable at will by varyshying the bank angle The little C-3
UJ would chug along in a circle lift off J
~ The engine instruments and mag- ~ switch are mounted on the panel with a ~ the throttle sticking out of the middle
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then release itself and go on its merry way Whether the concept was ever applied to larger aircraft is shynt known but it reportedly worked great with the lightweight C-3
The airplane provided a lot of reshylaxing fun for Roche as he flew it up and down the coast in the VirshyginiaMaryland area Occasionally theyd even land it on the beach and Roche liked a particular beach so much he eventually built a home in the same location
Shortly after Pearl Harbor the edict came down that the C-3 along with most other civilian aircraft would have to be disassembled and stored for the duration It seems the government couldnt see the C-3 out over the ocean doing anti-submarine duty or didnt feel the pregnant guppy appearance of the little Aeronca was going to inspire fear in the hearts of our enemies It has been reported (but unconfirmed ) that the actual reason the military wanted all unused civilian aircraft dismantled was so they couldnt be used against us in the event of an inshyvasion Yeah right An Aeronca C-3 used by the enemy to strafe our troops Thats kind of funny actushy
ally It sat out the war disassembled in Roches house
Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Balloon wheels are an integral part of the landing gears shock absorpshytion system
Aeronca was one of the few light-plane manufacturers that also manufactured their own engines The two-cylinder Aeronca engines would be the stanshydard powerplant for the companys product (not including the low wing Aeronca L series) until the four-cylinshyder Continental Lycoming and Franklin engines came out years later
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 17
Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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NEWSLETTER FOUR PER YEAR APPROX
Cessna 195 International Club BOB REISS PRESIDENT
9493 LA JOLLA FARMS ROAD
LA JOLLA CA 92037
858- 457-5987 FAX 858-552-8453
E-MAIL bobreisslajollafarmscom WEB wwwcessna195org DUEs$25 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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723 BAKER DR
TOMBALL TX 77375 281-351-0114
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60 SKYWOOD WAY WOODSIDE CA 94062
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NEWSLTR CULVERS GOING PLACES ( 3 ) 16 PG
Culver Dart Club LLOYD WASHBURN 2656 EAST SAND ROAD
POINT CLINTON OH 43452-2741 419-734-6685
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Culver PQ-14 Assoc TED HEINEMAN
29621 KENSINGTON DRIVE
LAGUNA NIGUEL CA 92677
949-495-4540
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SHALOTTE NC 28470-7117
VOICEFAX 9 10-575-2758
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6262 BREVER ROAD BURLINGTON WI 53105-8915
262- 539-2495
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CANNON FALLS MN 55009 507-263-24 14
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938- 2773 FAX 641-938-2093 E-MAIL AintiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER FAIRCHILD FAN (3) 16 PG
International Fleet Club SANDY BROWN
P O Box 511
MARLBOROUGH CT 06447-0511 860-267-6562
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Funk Aircraft Owners Association THAD SHELNUTT
2836 CALIFORNIA Av
CARMICHAEL CA 95608
916-971-3452
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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STEW WILSON
PO B ox 1531
CAMERON PARK CA 95682-1531
530-676-4292
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
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PO Box 774
WOODSTOCK ON CANADA N4S 8A2
5 1 9-633-0053
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122 E MAIN STREET PO Box 10
WEYAUWEGA WI 54983
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PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 64 1-938-2093
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NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
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6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
Interstate Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
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1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027
262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
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10251 E CENTRAL AVE
DEL REY CA 93616
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FORE IGN $35 ( us FUNDS )
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Meyers Aircraft Owners Association WILLIAM E GAFFNEY SECRETARY
24 RT 17K
NEWBURGH NY 12550 845-565-8005 FAX 845-565-8039
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NEWSLETTER 5-6 PER YEAR
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1218 KINGSTOWNE PLACE
ST CHAR LES MO 63304-7776 636- 939- 3322
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SAN ANTONIO TX 78232 210-525-8008 FAX 210-525-8085
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100 S WESTWOOD ST 2 PORTEVILLE CA 93257- 7704
559-782-1980
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BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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2380 COUNTRY ROAD 217
CHEYENNE WY 82009 307-638-2210 E-MAIL wyn3naolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
American Navion Society 16420 SE MCGILLIVRAY 103 VANCOUVER WA 98683-3461
360-833-9921 FAX 360-833-1074 E-MAIL Flynavionyahoocom WEB wwwnavionsocietyorg DUES $50 IYR US $54 CANADA
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PO Box 2678
LODI CA 95241-2678 209-482-7754
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Brodhead Pietenpol Association DON CAMPBELL
221 N LASALLE ST STE 3 11 7
CHICAGO IL 60601
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International Pietenpol Association ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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Cherokee Pilots Assoc P O Box 1996
LUTZ FL 33549 813-948-3616 OR 800-292- 6003
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Cub Club STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027 262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Flying Apache Assoc (Piper) JOHN J LUMLEY
6778 SKYLINE DRIVE
DELRAY BEACH FL 33446
561-499-1115
FAX 561-495-7311
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International Comanche Society GAYNOR EKMAN
5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
BETHANY OK 73008 405-491-0321 FAX 405-491-0325
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Short Wing Piper Club Inc ELEANOR AND BOB MILLS EDITORS
220 MAIN STREET
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FAX 316-835-3357
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LAKE WAUKOMIS MO 64151 816-741-1486 FAX 816-741-5212
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OCALA FL 34472 352-687-4859
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BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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19 STONEYBROOK LN SEARCY AR 72143-6129
501-268-9875
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1-26 Association (Schweizer) JAMES PHOENIX
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BONNEY LAKE WA 98390 203-894-8582
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Stearman Restorers Association 7000 MERRILL AvE Box 90
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MEADOW VISTA CA 95722
520-878-0219
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1229 RISING HILL ROAD WEST
PLACERVILLE CA 95667
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ROBERT TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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ATHENS TN 37371
423-745-9547 FAX 423-745-9869
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2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
SAN HOSE CA 95135 408-259-9971
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Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
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RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
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Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
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BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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4925 WILMA WAY
SAN JOSE CA 95124
408-356-3407
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931-455-1974 FAX 931-455-1994
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2815 SPRINGBROOK DR
LAWTON M I 49065
269-624-6490
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MIAMISBURG OH 45342
937 - 312- 0291
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1790 PANAY CIRCLE
COSTA MESA CA 92626
714-920-9226
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25801 NE H INNESS ROAD
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14329 S CALHOUN AVE
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BAY VILLAGE OH 44140 440-871-3781
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
SEPTEMBER 4-Marion IN-14th Annual Fly-In Cruise-In Marion Municipal Airport Event feashytures antique classic contemporary homebuilt ultralight amp warbird aircraft and vintage cars trucks motorcycles and tractors Pancake Breakfast Info rayjohnsonFlylnCruiselncom or wwwFlylnCruiseIncom
SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
OCTOBER 2-3-Midland TX-AIRshySHO 2004 Midland Int l Airport Commemorative Air Force HQ Info 432-563-1000 est 2231 or publicrelationscafhqmiddotorg
JUNE 28-27 Rocky Mountain fAA Regional Fly-In l ongmont CO (2V2) wwwrmrfiorg
JUlY 7-11 Northwest EAA Fly-In Arlington WA (AWO) wwwnweaaorg
JULY 27-AUGUST 2 EM AirVenture Oshkosh Oshkosh WI (OSH) wwwairventureorg
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OCTOBER 1-3 Southeast EAA Regional Fly-In Evergreen AL (GZH) wwwserfiorg
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Offering flight to the common man was just one of Jean Roches dreams Another was to offer the sportsmans life to the same class of people and he defined a sportsshymans life as living close to the shore with both a seaplane and a boat in a style that offered both economy and total recreation
The first ingredient of that the seaplane he had but not without putting the C-3 on floats This was no small decision because the airshyplane didnt have a huge surplus of power so the floats had to be well matched to the airplane Cost was also a factor which is why he conshysidered the McKinley pneumatic floats for a while The McKinleys never received CAA approval so Roche began looking for a set of EDO 1070s And he looked Then he looked some more The search took eight years until he finally cornered a set in 1948
The little C-3 on floats looked pershyfect in the sportsman house he had designed and built for it During World War II he started building the house and saw it as a prototype for
similar houses people of meager means could build out of their salaries without resorting to loans Essentially it was a tall seaplane hangar with an apartment on top The hangar was cinder block and the apartment of frame construction and built in a way that the floor plan could be easily customized to a builders tastes
Critical to the sportsman house was its location which in this case was on the shore of the Back River in Hampton Virginia not far from his work at NACA He had his water front home his seaplane ramp and evenshytually his seaplane But the three elements that defined his concept of sportsman living never really came together for him Traveling and other interests kept the C-3 in the hangar and not once was it trundled out to the water barely fifty feet away In fact Roche never flew the airplane afshyter it was reassembled after WWII
The airplane sat in its specially deshysigned hangar for years before Roche finally sold it to Bill Harwood and Thomas Grogan of Freeport Long Isshyland in 1966 ending Roches 34-year ownership of the airplane
When Harwood and Grogan got the airplane it had about 1200 hours on it Its cover was getting a little ratty so they gave it a new suit of clothes but thats about it It didshynt need anything else
While Harwood and Grogan were enjoying the airplane far to the west in Ohio young Jim Hammond was feeling the first pangs of the airshyplane bug He was still in junior high but airplanes especially old ones were already part of his life He grew up on his grandfathers farm where he now has a 2100-foot runway and a row of hangars
He says If Id ever quit buying airplane projects I could stop buildshying hangars Originally I just tied the airplanes in the corn but now that I have hangars they are all full
A mechanical engineer by training Jim is third generation in the familys desiccant business but airplanes have always been there
It s the usual farm kid airplane
story he says Started taking lessons at 14 soloed a J-3 at 17 but didnt get my license until I was in college
Part of his interest in antique airshyplanes came from an unusual source
We lived not far from Port Clinshyton where Island Airlines based their Ford Tri-Motors As a young kid I found that if you hung around they
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
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Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
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Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
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Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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Jean Roche original owner of the C-3
might take you out to the islands if they had an empty seat But then you had to stay on the island until they had an empty seat going back which often took a while Sometimes theyd even let you play copilot
I went to Oshkosh for the first time in 182 and my goal was to build a Pietenpol so I was looking for stuff pertaining to that But then I saw my first Hatz and I just had to have one Originally I was going to cannibalize an old 150 I had bought for parts for the Hatz but I just couldnt part out a flying airplane After putting 250 hours on it I sold it and used the money to buy parts for the Hatz It took me nearly eight years to finish the Hatz but I truly love it During that time I acquired my A amp Prating
What he doesnt often mention is that he received a bronze Lindbergh award for his workmanship on the Hatz
The exact trail of airplanes that led to his buying the Roche C-3 is just a little hard to follow
I bought a TC Aeronca in Oregon and it took me 32-12 hours to make it home A long but enjoyable ride
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Bill Halwood at Jean Roches house in 1966
ibullbullbullBill became the next owner of the C-3
Then in 187 I bought the proverbial airplane-in-a-barn a PT-19 I was at a wedding and someone told me about an old airplane they had seen wasting away and on the way home I stopped to look at it It looked like it just needed covering but when I got it home I found a lot of the old casein glue had given up holding parts together1
Like many antique airplane types jim has a love affair with the concept of starting a new unusual project
I worked on the Fairchild for about five years then got sidetracked by a j-l Standard project Somewhere back there I also decided I had to have a four-place family airplane so I bought a Stinson Junior I love jushyniors I flew this one for about four years and it was getting pretty ratty So I sold it and bought another one Like I said I like juniors Still intershyested in Pietenpols I helped restore Alan Rudolfs Model A Ford-powered Air Camper and wound up buying it a few years later
Id always wanted a C-3 project and a friend told me of one in Florida so I went to look at it The
same guy had the Standard j-1 He didnt really want to sell the C-3 but said if I took the Standard hed throw the C-3 in complete with its 1958 airworthiness certificate
I began working on the 220 Hissoshypowered Standard so the C-3 had to wait its turn
I still had the C-3 bug however Last year as I was getting ready to go to Oshkosh I saw an ad for a flying C-3 and I called the owner It sounded like it was exactly what I was looking for On Thursday of Oshkosh I flew home then drove to Long Island to look at it Bill Harwood showed me around the airplane and explained the entire Roche connection You could almost feel the old guy hovershying over the airplane It was incredibly original because all Harshywood and Grogan did was cover it Most of the rest including the inteshyrior is as it was when Roche had it
The airplane is a lot of fun to fly and I feel a little better about this enshygine than I do other E-l13s For one thing Roche converted the engine to a Ie model which means among other things that it received plain rod bearings and a new crankshaft that has a conventional spline rather than a taper
I fly the airplane regularly but I fly from field to field always expectshying the engine to stop Its this kind of flying that really keeps you on your toes
Im terribly aware of this airplanes place in history and I work hard at flyshying it safely and not stretching its limits I know Roche flew it as if it would never quit but I cant bring myself to be so blase about it Of course practically all the countryside where I regularly fly is miles and miles of flat fields So at the very least Im unlikely to damage the airplane
jean Roches little airplane begat a huge number of innovators but they all took the cue from Roches original concept keep it small keep it light keep it affordable-and the general aviation industry as we know it was born jean Roche loved aviation and he loved his C-3 Its only fitting that both have survived
Chris Price and his Heath Parasol
Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
ifornia under the influence of Sonoma Skypark Airport and all of the quirkiness contained thereon
bull He was friends with Eric Presten photographer and known pusher of vintage airplanes
Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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43 7 9 Hwy 147
LAKE ALMANOR CA 96137
530-284-7790
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PO Box 1917
ATASCADERO CA 93423-1917
805-461-1958 FAX 805-46 1-1035
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MAGAZINE THE 170 NEWS - QUARTERLY
Cessna 180185 International Club ( OWNERSHIP REQUIRED)
DAVE HAYDEN
21910 S GARDNER ROAD
SPRING HILL KS 66083 913-884-2187 FAX 913-856-5941
E-MA IL davekingsavionicsnet DUES $20 PER YEAR
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25575 BUTTERNUT RIDGE ROAD
NORTH OLMSTED OH 44070 440-777-4025
ccrabsaolcom or classic195aolcom DUES $15 INITIAL THEN AS REQUIRED
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Cessna 195 International Club BOB REISS PRESIDENT
9493 LA JOLLA FARMS ROAD
LA JOLLA CA 92037
858- 457-5987 FAX 858-552-8453
E-MAIL bobreisslajollafarmscom WEB wwwcessna195org DUEs$25 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Culver Aircraft Assoc DAN NICHOLSON
723 BAKER DR
TOMBALL TX 77375 281-351-0114
E-MAIL danngiecom FOR NEWSLETTER AND DUES INFO CONTACT
THE CLUB
Culver Club LARRY Low
60 SKYWOOD WAY WOODSIDE CA 94062
E-MAIL Lawrence_lowhotmailcom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLTR CULVERS GOING PLACES ( 3 ) 16 PG
Culver Dart Club LLOYD WASHBURN 2656 EAST SAND ROAD
POINT CLINTON OH 43452-2741 419-734-6685
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Culver PQ-14 Assoc TED HEINEMAN
29621 KENSINGTON DRIVE
LAGUNA NIGUEL CA 92677
949-495-4540
Ercoupe Owners Club CAROLYN T CARDEN MEMBERSHIP PO Box 71 17
SHALOTTE NC 28470-7117
VOICEFAX 9 10-575-2758
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6262 BREVER ROAD BURLINGTON WI 53105-8915
262- 539-2495
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CANNON FALLS MN 55009 507-263-24 14
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938- 2773 FAX 641-938-2093 E-MAIL AintiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER FAIRCHILD FAN (3) 16 PG
International Fleet Club SANDY BROWN
P O Box 511
MARLBOROUGH CT 06447-0511 860-267-6562
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Funk Aircraft Owners Association THAD SHELNUTT
2836 CALIFORNIA Av
CARMICHAEL CA 95608
916-971-3452
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Great Lakes Club BRENT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER GREAT LAKES LOG (3) 16 PG
The American Yankee Association ( GRUMMAN)
STEW WILSON
PO B ox 1531
CAMERON PARK CA 95682-1531
530-676-4292
E-MAIL secayaorg WEB wwwayaorg DUES $4750 US $50 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association GREG TYRELL PRESIDENT
PO Box 774
WOODSTOCK ON CANADA N4S 8A2
5 1 9-633-0053
E-MAIL g tyrellsympaticoco WEBSITE wwwchaacahomehtml DUES $35YR
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American Hatz Association Inc CHUCK BROWNLOW PRESIDENT
122 E MAIN STREET PO Box 10
WEYAUWEGA WI 54983
E-MAIL brownlowodaolcom WEB wwwhatzbiplanesorg DUES $20 PER YEAR
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Hatz Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 64 1-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
Heath Parasol Club WILLIAM SCHLAPMAN
6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
Interstate Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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Luscombe Association STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027
262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
Continental Luscombe Association JIM amp PATTI SANI PRESIDENT amp SECRETARY(TREASURER
10251 E CENTRAL AVE
DEL REY CA 93616
559-888-2745 E-MAIL cla-jim-pattipacbellnet WEB http wwwluscombe-claorg DUES US $20 CANADA $27 ( US FUNDS)
FORE IGN $35 ( us FUNDS )
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Meyers Aircraft Owners Association WILLIAM E GAFFNEY SECRETARY
24 RT 17K
NEWBURGH NY 12550 845-565-8005 FAX 845-565-8039
DUES POSTAGE FUND DONATION
NEWSLETTER 5-6 PER YEAR
Monocoupe Club FRANK amp CAROL KERNER
1218 KINGSTOWNE PLACE
ST CHAR LES MO 63304-7776 636- 939- 3322
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Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association 140 HEIMER RD SUITE 560
SAN ANTONIO TX 78232 210-525-8008 FAX 210-525-8085
E- MAIL mapamooneypilotscom WEB wwwmooneypilotscom DUES $44 50 US $49 50 FOREIGN
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Western Association of Mooney Mites (WAMM) WM L VANDERSANDE
100 S WESTWOOD ST 2 PORTEVILLE CA 93257- 7704
559-782-1980
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Parrakeet Pilot Club BARRY TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLTR THE PARRAKEET PILOT (3) 16 PGS
N3N Restorers Association H RONALD KEMPKA
2380 COUNTRY ROAD 217
CHEYENNE WY 82009 307-638-2210 E-MAIL wyn3naolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
American Navion Society 16420 SE MCGILLIVRAY 103 VANCOUVER WA 98683-3461
360-833-9921 FAX 360-833-1074 E-MAIL Flynavionyahoocom WEB wwwnavionsocietyorg DUES $50 IYR US $54 CANADA
$64 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
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Navion Skies Type Club RALEIGH MORROW
PO Box 2678
LODI CA 95241-2678 209-482-7754
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Brodhead Pietenpol Association DON CAMPBELL
221 N LASALLE ST STE 3 11 7
CHICAGO IL 60601
WEB wwwpietenpolorg DUES $16 PER YEAR US
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International Pietenpol Association ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLETTER IPA NEWS (3) 16 PG
Cherokee Pilots Assoc P O Box 1996
LUTZ FL 33549 813-948-3616 OR 800-292- 6003
E-MAIL terrypiperownercom WEB wwwpiperownercom DUES $3400 US $3600 CANADA amp MEXICO $4400 FOREIGN
MAGAZINE 1 1 ISSUES PER YEAR
Cub Club STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027 262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
E-MAIL sskrogaolcom WEB wwwcub-clubcomhomehtm DUES $25 USCANADA $30 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Flying Apache Assoc (Piper) JOHN J LUMLEY
6778 SKYLINE DRIVE
DELRAY BEACH FL 33446
561-499-1115
FAX 561-495-7311
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International Comanche Society GAYNOR EKMAN
5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
BETHANY OK 73008 405-491-0321 FAX 405-491-0325
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NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
Piper Owner Society PO Box 5000
lOLA WI 54945 866-697-4737 866-MYPIPER FAX 715-445-4053
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Short Wing Piper Club Inc ELEANOR AND BOB MILLS EDITORS
220 MAIN STREET
HALSTEAD KS 67056 316-835-3650
FAX 316-835-3357
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Supercuborg-Home of all things PAIS STEVE JOHNSON 953 S SHORE DRIVE
LAKE WAUKOMIS MO 64151 816-741-1486 FAX 816-741-5212
E-MAIL stevesupercuborg WEB wwwsupercuborg DUES DONATIONS
Porterfield Airplane Club CHUCK LEBRECHT 91 HICKORY Loop
OCALA FL 34472 352-687-4859
DUES $5 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Rearwin Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES
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International Ryan Club BILL HODGES EDITOR AND HISTORIAN
19 STONEYBROOK LN SEARCY AR 72143-6129
501-268-9875
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1-26 Association (Schweizer) JAMES PHOENIX
6815 185TH AvE E
BONNEY LAKE WA 98390 203-894-8582
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Staggerwing Club JIM GORMAN PRESIDENT PO Box 202
COLUMBIANA OH 44408 419-529-3822
E-MAIL sayorkcsicom (STAN YORK )
DUES $251YR US $30 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
Stearman Restorers Association 7000 MERRILL AvE Box 90
CHINO AIRPORT CHINO CA 91710-8800
WEB wwwstearmannet DUES $351YR US $40 CANADA amp MEXICO $45 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS)
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International Stinson Club TONY WRIGHT
2264 Los ROBLES ROAD
MEADOW VISTA CA 95722
520-878-0219
E-MAIL stinson2junocom WEB wwwaeromarcomswschtml DUES $25 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER 11 PER YEAR
National Stinson Club GEORGE ALLEMAN
1229 RISING HILL ROAD WEST
PLACERVILLE CA 95667
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NEWSLETTER 4 PER YEAR
Stinson Historical and Restoration Society ( STINSON 108 ANTIQUE AIRPLANE ASSN)
ROBERT TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
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Swift AssociationlSwift Museum Fdn Inc CHARLIE NELSON
P O Box 644
ATHENS TN 37371
423-745-9547 FAX 423-745-9869
E-MAIL swiftlychsaolcom WEB wwwswiftpartscom OR wwwglobetimcoswiftcom DUES $30 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
West Coast Swift Wing MARK KADRACH
2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
SAN HOSE CA 95135 408-259-9971
E-MAIL starwizzpacbellnet WEB wwwnapanetnet-arbeauswift DUES $15 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
E-MAIL tocprezyahoocom WEB wwwtaylorcraftorg DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
VirginiaCarolinas Taylorcraft Owners Club TOM PITTMAN
RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
E-MAIL vctoc6junocom WEB wwwvctocorg DUES $10 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E- MAl L AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER TRAVEL AIR TAILS (3) 16 PG
Travel Air Restorers Association (TARA) JERRY IMPELLEZZERI
4925 WILMA WAY
SAN JOSE CA 95124
408-356-3407
E-MAIL clear_prop2003yahoocom WEB wwwtravelairorg DUES $15 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Travel Air Div of Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc LORRAINE CARTER
P O Box 550
TULLAHOMA TN 37388
931-455-1974 FAX 931-455-1994
E-MAIL Staggerwingbellsouthnet WEB wwwstaggerwingcom DUES $40 PER YEAR
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American Waco Club PHIL COULSON
2815 SPRINGBROOK DR
LAWTON M I 49065
269-624-6490
E-MAIL rcoulson516cscom WEB wwwamericanwacoclubcom DUES $35 PER YEAR $45 FOREIGN
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National Waco Club ANDY HEINS
2241 EQu ESTR IAN DR 1 A
MIAMISBURG OH 45342
937 - 312- 0291
E-MAIL wacoasoaolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR $25 FOREIGN
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Western Waco Association BARRY F BRANIN
1790 PANAY CIRCLE
COSTA MESA CA 92626
714-920-9226
E-MAIL flywacojuno com Du ES $5 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER OCCASIONAL
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Florida Antique Biplane Assoc Inc LARRY ROBINSON
10906 DENOEU ROAD
BOYNTON BEACH FL 33437
561-732-3250 FAX 561-732-2532
E-MAIL BeyeViewaolcom DUES $48 YEAR
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National Biplane Association CHARLES W HARRIS
PO Box 470350
TULSA OK 74147-0350
918-622-8400 FAX 918-665-0039
E-MAIL cwhhvsucom WEB wwwnationalbiplaneassnorg WEB wwwbiplaneexpocom DUES $25 INDIVIDUAL $40 FAMILY ADD
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North American Trainer Association (T6 T28 NA64 NA50 P51 B25)
KATHY amp STONEY STONICH
25801 NE H INNESS ROAD
BRUSH PRAIRIE WA 98606
360-256-0066 FAX 360-896-5398
E-MAIL NATraineraolcom WEBSITE wwwNorthAmericanTrainerorg DUES $45 US amp CANADA $55 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY NATA SKYLINES
Taildragger Club ASA DEAN
16216 N 34TH WAY
PHOENIX AZ 85032-3119 CELL 602-622-8335
E-MAIL asataildraggercluborg wwwtaildraggercluborgtdc
WWI Aeroplanes Inc LEONARD OPDYCKE
15 CRESCENT ROAD POUGHKEEPSIE NY 12601
845-473-3679
JOURNALS WWI AERO AND SKYWAYS
PER QRTRLY JOURNAL $35IYR $40 FOREIGN
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American Aviation Historical Society BRUCE CUNNINGHAM
2333 OTIS STREET
SANTA ANA CA 92704
714-549-4818 FAX 714-549-3657 E-MAIL presaahs-onlineorg WEBSITE wwwaahsonlineorg DUES $39 US $44 CANADA amp MEXICO $57 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
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Cross amp Cockade BOB SHELDON SECRETARY
14329 S CALHOUN AVE
BURNHAM IL 60633 708-862-1014
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Eastern Reg US Air Racing Assoc JACK DIANISKA PRESIDENT 26726 HENRY ROAD
BAY VILLAGE OH 44140 440-871-3781
E-MAIL svcsaolcom
Flying Farmers International PO Box 9124
WICHITA KS 67277-0124 316-943-4234 FAX 800-266-5415
E-MAIL supportflyingfarmersorg WEB wwwflyingfarmersorg DUES $60YR MAGAZINES 6 MAGAZINES PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
Flying Octogenarians HERBERT SLOANE PO Box 11114 MONTGOMERY AL 36111-0114 334-832-2413 E-MAIL pilotherbyahoocom DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Deaf Pilots Association CLYDE SMITH 1553 GRAVEL SPRINGS CIRCLE JACKSONVILLE IL 62650 E-MAIL clymarcsjnet WEB wwwdeafpilotsorg DUES $30 PER YEAR ACTIVE PILOTS
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Intl Fellowship of Flying Rotarians TOM SUROWKA WORLD SEcfTREAS 203A RUBENS DRIVE NOM IS FL 34275-4211 941-966-6636 FAX 941-966-9141 E-MAIL surowkaiffrorg WEBSITE wwwiffrorg
International Uaison Pilot ampAircraft Assoc BILL STRATTON 16518 LEDGESTONE SAN ANTONIO TX 78332-2406 210-490-4572 VOicEFAx E-MAIL ILPASTlCNET wwwcentercompcomILPAindexhtml DUES $29YR US $35 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER LIAISON SPOKEN HERE
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International Wheelchair Aviators po Box 2799 BIG BEAR CITY CA 92314 909-585-9663 FAX 909-585-7156 E-MAIL iwaviatorsaolcom WEB wwwwheelchairaviatorsorg
International Women in Aviation DR PEGGY J CHABRIAN 101 CORSAIR DRIVE DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114 386-226-7996 FAX 386-226-7998 WEBSITE wwwwaiorg DUES $39 PER YEAR - $29 STUDENTS MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
Lake Amphibian Flyers Club MARK amp JILL RODSTE IN 7188 MANDARIN DRIVE BOCA RATON FL 33433-7412 561-483-6566 FAX 561 -892-3128 E- MAIL infolakeflyerscom DUES $58 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
National Air Racing Group BETTY SHERMAN 1932 MAHAN AVENUE RICHLAND WA 99352-2121 509- 946-5690 E-MA IL bettyshermanverizonnet WEBSITE wwwwarbirdaeropresscom DUES $15 US$20 OUTSIDE US NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
National Association of Priest Pilots MEL HEMANN 127 KASPEND PLACE CEDAR FALLS IA 50613-1683 319-266-3889 E-MAIL n298mhcfunet DUES $20 NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
The 99s Women Pilots 4300 AMELIA EARHART ROAD OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73159 800-994-1929 FAX 405-685-7985 E-MAIL IHQ99sCSCOM WEB wwwninety-ninesorg DUES $65 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER BI-MONTHLY
ox-s Aviation Pioneers ELMER H HANSEN NATL SECRETARY 12220 NE 39TH STR EET BELLEVUE WA 98005-1217 425-885-0299 E-MAIL elmerhansenverizonnet WEB wwwox5pioneersorg DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Piper Aviation Museum Foundation DAN SHOWAN ONE PIPER WAY LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0052 570-748-8283 FAX 570-893-8357 E-MAIL pipercubkcnetorg WEBSITE wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $30 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Replica Fighters Association 1528 S KOELLER PMB 111 OSHKOSH WI 54902 E-MAIL presidentreplicafightersorg WEBSITE wwwreplicafightersorg DUES $25 YR $30 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS ) NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Seaplane Pilots Association MICHAEL VOLK 4315 HIGHLAND PARK BLVD SUITE C LAKELAND FL 33813 863- 701 - 7979 FAX 863-701-7588 E- MAIL spaseaplanesorg WEBSITE wwwseaplanesorg DUES $40 PER YEAR MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven Inc JOHN L BUCHAN FLY- IN DIRECTOR P O Box J-3 LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0496 570-893-4200 FAX 570-893-4218 E-MAIL Pipercubkcnetorg wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $10 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Silver Wings Fraternity PO Box 44208 CINCINNATI OH 45244 800-554-1437 E-MAIL cardinaI5msncom WEBSITE wwwsilverwingsorg DUES $201 ST YEAR $10 RENEW NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Society of Air Racing Historians HERMAN SCHAUB 168 MAR ION LANE BEREA OH 44017 440- 234-2301 E- MAIL hermanairracecom WEBSITE wwwairracecom DUES $20YR US - $23 OTHER S NEWSLETTER BI-MONTHLY
Taylorcraft Foundation Inc FORREST A BARBER EXEC DIR 13820 UN ION AVE NE ALLIANCE OH 44601-9378 330-823-1168 FAX 330-823 - 1138 E-MAIL fbarberalliancelinkcom WEBSITE wwwtaylorcraftorg DUES $10 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTER LY
Vintage Sailplane Association DAVID SCHUUR 1709 BARON COURT DAYTONA BEACH FL 32128 E-MAIL dschuurfrtcinet WEB wwwvintagesailplaneorg DUES $15 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Waco Historical Society Inc WACO AIRCRAFT MUSEUM MARLA BOONE DIR OF MEMBERSH IP P O Box 62 TR OY OH 45373-0062 937 -335- WACO E-MAI L mSimonbooneyahoocom WEB wwwwacoairmuseumorg 1-5PM SAT-SUN MAy-OCTOBER DUES $20YR AND UP NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
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Twenty-eight-year-old Chris Price didnt have a chance There was absolutely no way he could not turn out
to be a lover of old unusual airshyplanes because his entire youth was stacked against him
Lets add up the strikes bull Father was an airline pilot who
loved old airplanes bull He was raised in Sonoma Calshy
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Three strikes no chance whatshysoever of having a normal aka boring life
Lounging in the tiny shade of
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his Heath Parasol at Oshkosh he said I suppose my father was the main influence that drove me toshywards flivver-type airplanes Or it could have been the English moshytorcycles of my youth because they tend to breed a tolerance of quesshytionable mechanical stuff
Plus Dad managed the Freshymont Airport for a bunch of years and before I was old enough to learn to fly I was racing around the airport on a go-kart and climbshying in and out of a derelict )-3 Cub I soloed a glider at IS a Cub at 16 and got my ticket at 17
The story of his Heath if told out of context would sound like the normal long-term (la-year) scrounging-through-barns-makingshyphone-calls-looking-for-parts
project Its only when its put in context that it takes on an abnormal flair Like for instance he was buildshying his ribs in high school shop class and took a Continental A-40 to auto shop to do the valves But were getshyting ahead of ourselves
Just make a mental note that the tale of the Chris Price Heath Parasol begins when hes still in high school
Three months after I got my private license a friend who had only gotten his license a week earshylier and I flew a J-3 from Sonoma California to Old Rhinebeck New York We even circled the Statue of Liberty On the way east we stopped at Oshkosh 92 where I saw Bill Schlapmans Heath Parashysol On the way home we attended
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The large dial of the engine tachometer dominates the instrument panel with the throttle lever just to its left
consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
~ plane as part of my shop classes Chris eJh-s b-working --is
lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
18 FEBRUARY 2004
The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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consisted of a stack of totally unusshyable ribs and no spars But the price was right so I carted the pieces home Then between the cracks of everything else I was doshying I kept looking for parts to add to my Heath kit
liMy high school was really good about letting me work on the airshy
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lt While other guys were makingPncmiddotc a-~een -------on h-~
Heath project since he was in high bookends and cutting boards I school back in Sonoma California was making ribs and spars
liThe structure of the Heath is Sentimental Journey at Lock amazingly fragile and the ribs Haven Pennsylvania and made a arent to be believed They are made lot of friends along the way of 732-inch stock (less than 14
For some reason I found Bill inch) with enormously long bays in Schlapmans airplane really inter- the trusses The middle bay is over esting Then I saw a picture of a 9 inches long You can deform them Heath on floats That did it I let with your fingers In fact later everyone know that I wanted a when I was rib stitching I had to Heath Thats when Eric Presten cut some of it loose and start over told me of an ad hed seen for a because Id pulled it too tight and Heath project in Wisconsin It re- bowed the bottom in They looked ally didnt sound like much but I like Wright brothers ribs went to look at it anyway By the time Chris graduated
lilt looked even worse than it from high school it was obvious to sounded Someone had whacked him that to continue with the all of the fittings off the fuselage I Heath he was going to have to guess they were going to modify it learn additional skills because his into something else There were no airplane was in urgent need of wheels the elevator hinges on the someone who knew how to weld stab had been cut off and there I took welding courses at Santa was no vertical stab The wings Rosa Junior College then attended 16 FEBRUARY 2004
The beautiful profile oforiginal Heath wheels was the result ofplenty ofpatience and a bit ofhorse-trading with other airplane parts
Embry-Riddle at their extended campus on Travis Air Force Base to get the rest of my education Once I felt I knew how to weld well enough it was time to start tackshyling the steel parts of the airplane
liThe fuselage looked horrible At one time it had surface rust and rather than cleaning it someone just brush painted over it I punch tested the tubing in the normal places and couldnt find any thin spots so I continued on with it
When restoring some airplanes tons of archival documentation surfaces to provide information but Chris found that wasnt the case with the Heath
I had expected to find lots of plans and stuff for the airplane but didnt In fact in a lot of areas I had to depend on photos The fuselage had no door for instance which was an option on the Heath because it is nearly impossible to squeeze under the wing to get in I decided to put the door in and spent a lot of time staring at phoshytos the EAA had of a bare Heath fuselage that had the door to get details The basic dimensions came from plans out of 1930 and 1931 Popular Aviation magazines
liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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liThe shape and method of atshytaching the fittings came out of the old EAA photos along with the way the gas line and throttle linkshyage were routed Nothing about it was complicated but I was putting together a jigsaw puzzle without knowing what the picture was supshyposed to look like so any hints helped enormously
When I cut the tubing to put the door in I got proof that the tubing was fine because the insides of everything I cut were just beaushytiful That was a relief
When welding in the tubes for the door I made it a point to avoid splicing anything I went from clusshyter to cluster on every piece and youd have a tough time telling the door wasnt there all long which is how I wanted it to look
Having a basic wing and fuselage meant that it looked as if Chris had a real airplane but he wanted to make it original or close to it so he was still a long way away because he was missing so many important components
liThe widow I had bought the fuselage from said she had already sold a bunch of parts of the airplane including the engine and Heath
Powered with a more reliable Continental Ashy40(f) Chris Heath will cruise at 70 mph
The rigging of the Heath is pure 19205 with a combination of hard wire and cables keeping everything aligned
Right off the pages of the Flying and Glider Manual Chris Prices Heath is striking in its original color scheme Who says the old days were in black and white
wheels which are unique to the airplane I could have subshystituted motorcycle wheels or something but I was doing a restoration not a homebuilt so I didnt want to go that route
I flipped over rocks for two years looking for wheels and finally bought a pair at the Joe Gertler auction They had a ton of wheels of different types and I bought a set of Jenny wheels for a friend but almost no one wanted the Heath wheels so I got them for $120
liMy airplane had originally been equipped with a B-4 HenshydersonHeath which was also long gone At the Gertler aucshytion however I bought a couple of complete Heath engines even though I was already comshymitted to the Continental A-40 Besides Id heard some dismal
things about the reliability of Heaths so I wanted to get my airplane flying first then think about changing the engine
Some airplane projects have intershyesting circular connections in them where people cross paths without ever knowing or parts wind up in the most ironic places
I was well into the project when a friend told me hed been to a local garage sale and there were a bunch of Heath parts stacked in the corner but not for sale He asked the guy where he got them and he said I bought them in Wisconsin
There was a fuselage too but I was in a hurry and didnt want to take the
fuselage I ran up and talked
to him and would you believe it-he has the engine and wheels that were originally on my airplane and hes not 15
miles from my house in California
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
Poor kid h e just didnt have a chance
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NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
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6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
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PO Box 127
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1002 HEATHER LANE
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5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
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PO Box 127
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2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
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Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
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VirginiaCarolinas Taylorcraft Owners Club TOM PITTMAN
RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
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Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
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Travel Air Div of Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc LORRAINE CARTER
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Deaf Pilots Association CLYDE SMITH 1553 GRAVEL SPRINGS CIRCLE JACKSONVILLE IL 62650 E-MAIL clymarcsjnet WEB wwwdeafpilotsorg DUES $30 PER YEAR ACTIVE PILOTS
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International Uaison Pilot ampAircraft Assoc BILL STRATTON 16518 LEDGESTONE SAN ANTONIO TX 78332-2406 210-490-4572 VOicEFAx E-MAIL ILPASTlCNET wwwcentercompcomILPAindexhtml DUES $29YR US $35 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER LIAISON SPOKEN HERE
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International Wheelchair Aviators po Box 2799 BIG BEAR CITY CA 92314 909-585-9663 FAX 909-585-7156 E-MAIL iwaviatorsaolcom WEB wwwwheelchairaviatorsorg
International Women in Aviation DR PEGGY J CHABRIAN 101 CORSAIR DRIVE DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114 386-226-7996 FAX 386-226-7998 WEBSITE wwwwaiorg DUES $39 PER YEAR - $29 STUDENTS MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
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National Air Racing Group BETTY SHERMAN 1932 MAHAN AVENUE RICHLAND WA 99352-2121 509- 946-5690 E-MA IL bettyshermanverizonnet WEBSITE wwwwarbirdaeropresscom DUES $15 US$20 OUTSIDE US NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
SEPTEMBER 4-Marion IN-14th Annual Fly-In Cruise-In Marion Municipal Airport Event feashytures antique classic contemporary homebuilt ultralight amp warbird aircraft and vintage cars trucks motorcycles and tractors Pancake Breakfast Info rayjohnsonFlylnCruiselncom or wwwFlylnCruiseIncom
SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
OCTOBER 2-3-Midland TX-AIRshySHO 2004 Midland Int l Airport Commemorative Air Force HQ Info 432-563-1000 est 2231 or publicrelationscafhqmiddotorg
JUNE 28-27 Rocky Mountain fAA Regional Fly-In l ongmont CO (2V2) wwwrmrfiorg
JUlY 7-11 Northwest EAA Fly-In Arlington WA (AWO) wwwnweaaorg
JULY 27-AUGUST 2 EM AirVenture Oshkosh Oshkosh WI (OSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 27-29 Mid-Eastern EAA Fly-In Marion OH (MNN) wwweaaorg communications eaanews 030522_merfihtml
SEP1tMBER 18-19 Virginia State EAA Fly-In Petersburg VA (PTB) wwwvaeaaorg
OCTOBER 1-3 Southeast EAA Regional Fly-In Evergreen AL (GZH) wwwserfiorg
OCTOBER 7-10 Copperstate EAA Regional Fly-In Phoenix AZ (A39) wwwcopperstateorg
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Hes a memorabilia collector not a restorer and he didnt want to sell me the parts He did talk about loanshying them however and I have to get back to him Maybe we can work out a trade or something
When I was doing the instrushyment panel I had practically no documentation to work with so I basically got what I thought was acshycurate to the period Some of it is kind of funny like the NicholasshyBeazley altimeter In one circle of the needle it goes from zero to 25000 feet Talk about a nonsensitive alshytimeter I just look out and make a judgment whether Im high enough or not and thats good enough
liThe mag switch is a funky-lookshying British unit probably out of an Avro and the oil pressure gauge is from a tractor That seemed apropos
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The throttle which is an up-andshydown lever was tough to come up with Then I saw the fuel selector for a Geronimo Apache Not only was it exactly the right size and look but the throw was perfectly matched to the NAS-2 carb on the A-40
About this time I finished colshylege and my first flying job was with Miami Valley Aviation in Midshydletown Ohio (only a couple hundred feet away from the original Aeronca factory) flying DC-3 copilot and Beech 18 single pilot Moving away from the Heath was not good It was going nowhere fast
I was lucky to be a friend of Rowena Mason Rowena owns Rowena s Flying Fabric at Santa Paula airport and she did a beautiful job covering the airplane and duplicating the original factory paint scheme
Because the Heath is low on both power and wing area weight which is the enemy of every airplane is esshypecially important and nothing is heavier and more useless than extra coats of paint
Rowena covered it with the super lightweight Ceconite 103 glider cloth Once she had it on [ hated to make it any heavier by putting finish on it but we had to seal and protect it somehow She put two cross coats of silver on it and stopped there If you look youll see pinholes all over it but at least its light
In putting together such a rudishymentary and tiny airframe there are always parts that prove more ellushysive than others
liThe tail uses tiny turnbuckles on the wires and I was having problems finding them A friend had bought an
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
Dad bought an A-40 back in 7S that he was going to use on a Rose Parakeet project that n eve r hapshypened Thats the engine I took to
1930 Heath V Strut
Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
For one thing people tend to
want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
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ccrabsaolcom or classic195aolcom DUES $15 INITIAL THEN AS REQUIRED
NEWSLETTER FOUR PER YEAR APPROX
Cessna 195 International Club BOB REISS PRESIDENT
9493 LA JOLLA FARMS ROAD
LA JOLLA CA 92037
858- 457-5987 FAX 858-552-8453
E-MAIL bobreisslajollafarmscom WEB wwwcessna195org DUEs$25 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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723 BAKER DR
TOMBALL TX 77375 281-351-0114
E-MAIL danngiecom FOR NEWSLETTER AND DUES INFO CONTACT
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60 SKYWOOD WAY WOODSIDE CA 94062
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NEWSLTR CULVERS GOING PLACES ( 3 ) 16 PG
Culver Dart Club LLOYD WASHBURN 2656 EAST SAND ROAD
POINT CLINTON OH 43452-2741 419-734-6685
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Culver PQ-14 Assoc TED HEINEMAN
29621 KENSINGTON DRIVE
LAGUNA NIGUEL CA 92677
949-495-4540
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SHALOTTE NC 28470-7117
VOICEFAX 9 10-575-2758
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6262 BREVER ROAD BURLINGTON WI 53105-8915
262- 539-2495
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CANNON FALLS MN 55009 507-263-24 14
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P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938- 2773 FAX 641-938-2093 E-MAIL AintiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER FAIRCHILD FAN (3) 16 PG
International Fleet Club SANDY BROWN
P O Box 511
MARLBOROUGH CT 06447-0511 860-267-6562
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Funk Aircraft Owners Association THAD SHELNUTT
2836 CALIFORNIA Av
CARMICHAEL CA 95608
916-971-3452
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NEWSLETTER 10 PER YEAR
Great Lakes Club BRENT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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NEWSLETTER GREAT LAKES LOG (3) 16 PG
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STEW WILSON
PO B ox 1531
CAMERON PARK CA 95682-1531
530-676-4292
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
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PO Box 774
WOODSTOCK ON CANADA N4S 8A2
5 1 9-633-0053
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122 E MAIN STREET PO Box 10
WEYAUWEGA WI 54983
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PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 64 1-938-2093
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NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
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6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
Interstate Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
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1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027
262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
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10251 E CENTRAL AVE
DEL REY CA 93616
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FORE IGN $35 ( us FUNDS )
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Meyers Aircraft Owners Association WILLIAM E GAFFNEY SECRETARY
24 RT 17K
NEWBURGH NY 12550 845-565-8005 FAX 845-565-8039
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NEWSLETTER 5-6 PER YEAR
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1218 KINGSTOWNE PLACE
ST CHAR LES MO 63304-7776 636- 939- 3322
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Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association 140 HEIMER RD SUITE 560
SAN ANTONIO TX 78232 210-525-8008 FAX 210-525-8085
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Western Association of Mooney Mites (WAMM) WM L VANDERSANDE
100 S WESTWOOD ST 2 PORTEVILLE CA 93257- 7704
559-782-1980
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BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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2380 COUNTRY ROAD 217
CHEYENNE WY 82009 307-638-2210 E-MAIL wyn3naolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
American Navion Society 16420 SE MCGILLIVRAY 103 VANCOUVER WA 98683-3461
360-833-9921 FAX 360-833-1074 E-MAIL Flynavionyahoocom WEB wwwnavionsocietyorg DUES $50 IYR US $54 CANADA
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Navion Skies Type Club RALEIGH MORROW
PO Box 2678
LODI CA 95241-2678 209-482-7754
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Brodhead Pietenpol Association DON CAMPBELL
221 N LASALLE ST STE 3 11 7
CHICAGO IL 60601
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International Pietenpol Association ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLETTER IPA NEWS (3) 16 PG
Cherokee Pilots Assoc P O Box 1996
LUTZ FL 33549 813-948-3616 OR 800-292- 6003
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MAGAZINE 1 1 ISSUES PER YEAR
Cub Club STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027 262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
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NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Flying Apache Assoc (Piper) JOHN J LUMLEY
6778 SKYLINE DRIVE
DELRAY BEACH FL 33446
561-499-1115
FAX 561-495-7311
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International Comanche Society GAYNOR EKMAN
5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
BETHANY OK 73008 405-491-0321 FAX 405-491-0325
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Short Wing Piper Club Inc ELEANOR AND BOB MILLS EDITORS
220 MAIN STREET
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FAX 316-835-3357
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LAKE WAUKOMIS MO 64151 816-741-1486 FAX 816-741-5212
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OCALA FL 34472 352-687-4859
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BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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19 STONEYBROOK LN SEARCY AR 72143-6129
501-268-9875
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1-26 Association (Schweizer) JAMES PHOENIX
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BONNEY LAKE WA 98390 203-894-8582
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COLUMBIANA OH 44408 419-529-3822
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Stearman Restorers Association 7000 MERRILL AvE Box 90
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MEADOW VISTA CA 95722
520-878-0219
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NEWSLETTER 11 PER YEAR
National Stinson Club GEORGE ALLEMAN
1229 RISING HILL ROAD WEST
PLACERVILLE CA 95667
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ROBERT TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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ATHENS TN 37371
423-745-9547 FAX 423-745-9869
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2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
SAN HOSE CA 95135 408-259-9971
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Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
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RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
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Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
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4925 WILMA WAY
SAN JOSE CA 95124
408-356-3407
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Travel Air Div of Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc LORRAINE CARTER
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931-455-1974 FAX 931-455-1994
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2815 SPRINGBROOK DR
LAWTON M I 49065
269-624-6490
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MIAMISBURG OH 45342
937 - 312- 0291
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1790 PANAY CIRCLE
COSTA MESA CA 92626
714-920-9226
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10906 DENOEU ROAD
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North American Trainer Association (T6 T28 NA64 NA50 P51 B25)
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25801 NE H INNESS ROAD
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American Aviation Historical Society BRUCE CUNNINGHAM
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14329 S CALHOUN AVE
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BAY VILLAGE OH 44140 440-871-3781
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
SEPTEMBER 4-Marion IN-14th Annual Fly-In Cruise-In Marion Municipal Airport Event feashytures antique classic contemporary homebuilt ultralight amp warbird aircraft and vintage cars trucks motorcycles and tractors Pancake Breakfast Info rayjohnsonFlylnCruiselncom or wwwFlylnCruiseIncom
SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
OCTOBER 2-3-Midland TX-AIRshySHO 2004 Midland Int l Airport Commemorative Air Force HQ Info 432-563-1000 est 2231 or publicrelationscafhqmiddotorg
JUNE 28-27 Rocky Mountain fAA Regional Fly-In l ongmont CO (2V2) wwwrmrfiorg
JUlY 7-11 Northwest EAA Fly-In Arlington WA (AWO) wwwnweaaorg
JULY 27-AUGUST 2 EM AirVenture Oshkosh Oshkosh WI (OSH) wwwairventureorg
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SEP1tMBER 18-19 Virginia State EAA Fly-In Petersburg VA (PTB) wwwvaeaaorg
OCTOBER 1-3 Southeast EAA Regional Fly-In Evergreen AL (GZH) wwwserfiorg
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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engine off a Heath project and left the fuselage which was scrapped I called the landfill hoping to find the turnbuckles but all they had left was the landing gear I retrieved that but all that was useful were the bronze bushings on the axles
Finally I ran across a crashed ultralight that was using the exact turnbuckl es so I bought it took off the turnbuckles and burned the rest
The Heath B-4 that was originally on the airplane was a composite enshygine that mounted Heath-designed and -manufactured cylinders on a basically stock four-cylinder Hendershyson motorcycle case Heath also built complete engines which were what Chris had purchased at the Gertler auction In the interest of reliability however he decided to stay with the
Continental A-40 although that deshycision had a few twists of its own
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Engine Continental A-40-4 40 hp Cruise 70 mill Top speed 85 mph Empty weiCht 402 pounds
Fuel 8 gallons (two 4-gallon tanks in wing) Fuel bum 27 gph The plane has flown at a weight of 680 pounds with a 220-pound pilot
auto shop and messed with even though [ didnt have the experience It needed more than [ was capable of doing at the time so I still needed an engine
Last October I had the airframe about finished and was looking around for another A-40 when someone turned me onto one that had been sitting und er a friends work bench for years It was covshyered by an inch of sawdust but when I cleaned it up it turned out to be a pretty good engine [ pulled the heads and checked it over and decided to run it as-is as a shortshyterm powerplant for the airplane while I rebuilt the original engine my dad had
[ wanted to make that original engine as new as possible given the shortage of availab[e parts [ came up with a new cam and cam bearshyings and used a set of Jahns pistons along with new rods There arent new parts kits for the Bendix mags but [ spent a lot of time looking for the best parts [ could find
[ flew 20 hours behind the workshybench engine before [ changed to the rebuilt engine which is running great although [ carry an extra A-6S coil with me We all know how those things love to fail
Now that Chris ha s bee n fl ying the Heath for a season h e has formed some opinions about it
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want to lump it in with the C-3 Aeronca but you only have to look at that little wing and you know that theres no way it can be as slow as a C-3 It has a higher wing loadshying even thou g h it s light as a feather [ come down final at 4S miles an hour and stall at about 3S
You dont fly a power-off final because it has a fair amount of drag and virtually no inertia If you kill the power youre really nose-down on final to maintain speed but even so it still has plenty of elevator to make the flare Most of the time [ II keep some power on it cruise down final and slow down when close to the runway
Itll cruise about 70 mil es an hour at 2100 rpm which is low for the A-40 and will actually hit 8S mph at full power of 2300 rpm Part of that may be that Im running a pretty big prop-69-inch diameter with a 33-inch pitch
It has an amazing ability to fly with different weight pilots I had a 6-foot tall fri end who weighs 220 pounds fly it and not only did he fit just fin e but the airplane didnt seem to care that much
It couldnt be more docile Its reshyally a kiddy-car even though it has a tailskid and no brakes
C hris works for an airline in Chicago but lives in Brodhead Wisshyconsin where he has a hangar
liMy goal is to live between Brodshyhead and Sonoma I love the grass at Brodhead Besides I have a couple other projects Im working on
The II bullbullbull couple other projects he s talking about include an II A model Taylorcraft a Szekely-powshyered Curti ss Junior ( an easy resto ju st hav e to build a new wing) an Eyerly Whiffle Hen ( sold for one year second airplane to use an A-40) and a few others all of which fit the common definition of flivver-small light and basishycally around-the-patch airplanes
Yeah I guess you really could say that [m a flivver kind of guy and he grins
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DUES $20 PER YEAR
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Cessna 150152 Club ROYSON PARSONS
PO Box 1917
ATASCADERO CA 93423-1917
805-461-1958 FAX 805-46 1-1035
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International Cessna 170 Association Inc VELVET FACKELDEY
PO Box 1667
LEBANON MO 65536 417- 532-4847
headquarterscessna170org httpwwwcessna170org DUES $35 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER FLYPAPER - MONTHLY
MAGAZINE THE 170 NEWS - QUARTERLY
Cessna 180185 International Club ( OWNERSHIP REQUIRED)
DAVE HAYDEN
21910 S GARDNER ROAD
SPRING HILL KS 66083 913-884-2187 FAX 913-856-5941
E-MA IL davekingsavionicsnet DUES $20 PER YEAR
Eastern 190195 Association CLIFF CRABS
25575 BUTTERNUT RIDGE ROAD
NORTH OLMSTED OH 44070 440-777-4025
ccrabsaolcom or classic195aolcom DUES $15 INITIAL THEN AS REQUIRED
NEWSLETTER FOUR PER YEAR APPROX
Cessna 195 International Club BOB REISS PRESIDENT
9493 LA JOLLA FARMS ROAD
LA JOLLA CA 92037
858- 457-5987 FAX 858-552-8453
E-MAIL bobreisslajollafarmscom WEB wwwcessna195org DUEs$25 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Culver Aircraft Assoc DAN NICHOLSON
723 BAKER DR
TOMBALL TX 77375 281-351-0114
E-MAIL danngiecom FOR NEWSLETTER AND DUES INFO CONTACT
THE CLUB
Culver Club LARRY Low
60 SKYWOOD WAY WOODSIDE CA 94062
E-MAIL Lawrence_lowhotmailcom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLTR CULVERS GOING PLACES ( 3 ) 16 PG
Culver Dart Club LLOYD WASHBURN 2656 EAST SAND ROAD
POINT CLINTON OH 43452-2741 419-734-6685
E- MAIL washlloydburncrosnet
Culver PQ-14 Assoc TED HEINEMAN
29621 KENSINGTON DRIVE
LAGUNA NIGUEL CA 92677
949-495-4540
Ercoupe Owners Club CAROLYN T CARDEN MEMBERSHIP PO Box 71 17
SHALOTTE NC 28470-7117
VOICEFAX 9 10-575-2758
E-MAIL coupecaperaolcom WEB wwwercoupeorg DUES $30YR US
$35 FOREIGN amp CANADA (US FUNDS )
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Ercoupe Owners Club-Wisconsin Wing JUDI MATUSCAK
6262 BREVER ROAD BURLINGTON WI 53105-8915
262- 539-2495
E-MAIL bjmatusspeeddialnet
Fairchild Club JOHN W BERENDT PRESIDENT 7645 ECHO POINT ROAD
CANNON FALLS MN 55009 507-263-24 14
E-MAIL fchldrconnectcom WEB wwwfairchildclubcom DUES $15 PER YEAR
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Fairchild Fan Club ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938- 2773 FAX 641-938-2093 E-MAIL AintiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER FAIRCHILD FAN (3) 16 PG
International Fleet Club SANDY BROWN
P O Box 511
MARLBOROUGH CT 06447-0511 860-267-6562
E-MAIL f1yboyntplxnet WEB wwwusers ntplxnetj-f1yboy DUES CONTRIBUTIONS
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Funk Aircraft Owners Association THAD SHELNUTT
2836 CALIFORNIA Av
CARMICHAEL CA 95608
916-971-3452
E-MAIL pilotthadaolcom WEB wwwfunkflyersorg DUES $12 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER 10 PER YEAR
Great Lakes Club BRENT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER GREAT LAKES LOG (3) 16 PG
The American Yankee Association ( GRUMMAN)
STEW WILSON
PO B ox 1531
CAMERON PARK CA 95682-1531
530-676-4292
E-MAIL secayaorg WEB wwwayaorg DUES $4750 US $50 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Canadian Harvard Aircraft Association GREG TYRELL PRESIDENT
PO Box 774
WOODSTOCK ON CANADA N4S 8A2
5 1 9-633-0053
E-MAIL g tyrellsympaticoco WEBSITE wwwchaacahomehtml DUES $35YR
NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY - THE ROAR
American Hatz Association Inc CHUCK BROWNLOW PRESIDENT
122 E MAIN STREET PO Box 10
WEYAUWEGA WI 54983
E-MAIL brownlowodaolcom WEB wwwhatzbiplanesorg DUES $20 PER YEAR
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Hatz Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 64 1-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
Heath Parasol Club WILLIAM SCHLAPMAN
6431 PAULSON ROAD
WINNECONNE WI 54986
920-582-4454
Howard Club E-MAIL HowardClubaolcom wwwmembersaolcomHowardClub
Interstate Club BARRY TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldserisonlinecom WEB www_aaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
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Luscombe Association STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027
262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
E-MAIL sskrogaolcom DUES $25 US amp CANADA $30 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 21
Continental Luscombe Association JIM amp PATTI SANI PRESIDENT amp SECRETARY(TREASURER
10251 E CENTRAL AVE
DEL REY CA 93616
559-888-2745 E-MAIL cla-jim-pattipacbellnet WEB http wwwluscombe-claorg DUES US $20 CANADA $27 ( US FUNDS)
FORE IGN $35 ( us FUNDS )
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Meyers Aircraft Owners Association WILLIAM E GAFFNEY SECRETARY
24 RT 17K
NEWBURGH NY 12550 845-565-8005 FAX 845-565-8039
DUES POSTAGE FUND DONATION
NEWSLETTER 5-6 PER YEAR
Monocoupe Club FRANK amp CAROL KERNER
1218 KINGSTOWNE PLACE
ST CHAR LES MO 63304-7776 636- 939- 3322
E-MAIL fwkernerspcglobal net WEB wwwmonocoupecom DUES $25 NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Mooney Aircraft Pilots Association 140 HEIMER RD SUITE 560
SAN ANTONIO TX 78232 210-525-8008 FAX 210-525-8085
E- MAIL mapamooneypilotscom WEB wwwmooneypilotscom DUES $44 50 US $49 50 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
Western Association of Mooney Mites (WAMM) WM L VANDERSANDE
100 S WESTWOOD ST 2 PORTEVILLE CA 93257- 7704
559-782-1980
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Parrakeet Pilot Club BARRY TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLTR THE PARRAKEET PILOT (3) 16 PGS
N3N Restorers Association H RONALD KEMPKA
2380 COUNTRY ROAD 217
CHEYENNE WY 82009 307-638-2210 E-MAIL wyn3naolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
American Navion Society 16420 SE MCGILLIVRAY 103 VANCOUVER WA 98683-3461
360-833-9921 FAX 360-833-1074 E-MAIL Flynavionyahoocom WEB wwwnavionsocietyorg DUES $50 IYR US $54 CANADA
$64 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
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Navion Skies Type Club RALEIGH MORROW
PO Box 2678
LODI CA 95241-2678 209-482-7754
E-MAIL Navionlinreachcom WEB wwwnavionskiescom DUES $45 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER MONTHLY ALSO VIA E-MA I L
Brodhead Pietenpol Association DON CAMPBELL
221 N LASALLE ST STE 3 11 7
CHICAGO IL 60601
WEB wwwpietenpolorg DUES $16 PER YEAR US
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International Pietenpol Association ROBERT TAYLOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES NEWSLETTER IPA NEWS (3) 16 PG
Cherokee Pilots Assoc P O Box 1996
LUTZ FL 33549 813-948-3616 OR 800-292- 6003
E-MAIL terrypiperownercom WEB wwwpiperownercom DUES $3400 US $3600 CANADA amp MEXICO $4400 FOREIGN
MAGAZINE 1 1 ISSUES PER YEAR
Cub Club STEVE AND SHARON KROG
1002 HEATHER LANE
HARTFORD WI 53027 262-966-7627 FAX 262-966-9627
E-MAIL sskrogaolcom WEB wwwcub-clubcomhomehtm DUES $25 USCANADA $30 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Flying Apache Assoc (Piper) JOHN J LUMLEY
6778 SKYLINE DRIVE
DELRAY BEACH FL 33446
561-499-1115
FAX 561-495-7311
E-MAIL mailtoflyingapachecscom DUES $25 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
International Comanche Society GAYNOR EKMAN
5604 PHILLIPS J RHOADS AvE HANGAR 3
BETHANY OK 73008 405-491-0321 FAX 405-491-0325
E-MAIL icsadminsbcglobalnet WEB wwwcomancheflyercom DUES $64 1ST YEAR THEN $60
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
Piper Owner Society PO Box 5000
lOLA WI 54945 866-697-4737 866-MYPIPER FAX 715-445-4053
E-MAIL helppiperownerorg WEB wwwpiperownerorg DUES $44 PER YEAR
MAGAZINE MONTHLY
Short Wing Piper Club Inc ELEANOR AND BOB MILLS EDITORS
220 MAIN STREET
HALSTEAD KS 67056 316-835-3650
FAX 316-835-3357
E-MAIL membershipshortwingorg WEB wwwshortwingorg DUES $30 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER BIMONTHLY
Supercuborg-Home of all things PAIS STEVE JOHNSON 953 S SHORE DRIVE
LAKE WAUKOMIS MO 64151 816-741-1486 FAX 816-741-5212
E-MAIL stevesupercuborg WEB wwwsupercuborg DUES DONATIONS
Porterfield Airplane Club CHUCK LEBRECHT 91 HICKORY Loop
OCALA FL 34472 352-687-4859
DUES $5 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Rearwin Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536 641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $151 THREE ISSUES
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International Ryan Club BILL HODGES EDITOR AND HISTORIAN
19 STONEYBROOK LN SEARCY AR 72143-6129
501-268-9875
E-MAIL recruitcswnetcom DUES $25 PER YEAR
$30 CANADA amp OVERSEAS AIRMAIL
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1-26 Association (Schweizer) JAMES PHOENIX
6815 185TH AvE E
BONNEY LAKE WA 98390 203-894-8582
E- MAIL jphoenix13comcastnet WEB www126associationorg DUES $15 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR (PLUS DIRECTORY )
Staggerwing Club JIM GORMAN PRESIDENT PO Box 202
COLUMBIANA OH 44408 419-529-3822
E-MAIL sayorkcsicom (STAN YORK )
DUES $251YR US $30 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
Stearman Restorers Association 7000 MERRILL AvE Box 90
CHINO AIRPORT CHINO CA 91710-8800
WEB wwwstearmannet DUES $351YR US $40 CANADA amp MEXICO $45 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS)
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International Stinson Club TONY WRIGHT
2264 Los ROBLES ROAD
MEADOW VISTA CA 95722
520-878-0219
E-MAIL stinson2junocom WEB wwwaeromarcomswschtml DUES $25 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER 11 PER YEAR
National Stinson Club GEORGE ALLEMAN
1229 RISING HILL ROAD WEST
PLACERVILLE CA 95667
PHONE amp FAX 530-622-4004
E-MAIL nscgeorgeinternet49com DUES $20 US amp CANADA $25 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER 4 PER YEAR
Stinson Historical and Restoration Society ( STINSON 108 ANTIQUE AIRPLANE ASSN)
ROBERT TAYLOR
PO Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E-MAIL AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
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Swift AssociationlSwift Museum Fdn Inc CHARLIE NELSON
P O Box 644
ATHENS TN 37371
423-745-9547 FAX 423-745-9869
E-MAIL swiftlychsaolcom WEB wwwswiftpartscom OR wwwglobetimcoswiftcom DUES $30 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
West Coast Swift Wing MARK KADRACH
2836 AUTUMN ESTATES
SAN HOSE CA 95135 408-259-9971
E-MAIL starwizzpacbellnet WEB wwwnapanetnet-arbeauswift DUES $15 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
Taylorcraft Owners Club BRUCE BIXLER 12809 GREEN BOWER NE ALLIANCE OH 44601 330-823-9748
E-MAIL tocprezyahoocom WEB wwwtaylorcraftorg DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
VirginiaCarolinas Taylorcraft Owners Club TOM PITTMAN
RT 6 Box 189
APPOMATOX VA 24522 434-352-5128
E-MAIL vctoc6junocom WEB wwwvctocorg DUES $10 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Travel Air Club ROBERT TAYLOR EDITOR
P O Box 127
BLAKESBURG IA 52536
641-938-2773 FAX 641-938-2093
E- MAl L AntiqueAirfieldsirisonlinecom WEB wwwaaa-apmorg DUES $15 THREE ISSUES
NEWSLETTER TRAVEL AIR TAILS (3) 16 PG
Travel Air Restorers Association (TARA) JERRY IMPELLEZZERI
4925 WILMA WAY
SAN JOSE CA 95124
408-356-3407
E-MAIL clear_prop2003yahoocom WEB wwwtravelairorg DUES $15 PER YEAR
NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Travel Air Div of Staggerwing Museum Foundation Inc LORRAINE CARTER
P O Box 550
TULLAHOMA TN 37388
931-455-1974 FAX 931-455-1994
E-MAIL Staggerwingbellsouthnet WEB wwwstaggerwingcom DUES $40 PER YEAR
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American Waco Club PHIL COULSON
2815 SPRINGBROOK DR
LAWTON M I 49065
269-624-6490
E-MAIL rcoulson516cscom WEB wwwamericanwacoclubcom DUES $35 PER YEAR $45 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER B I-MONTHLY
National Waco Club ANDY HEINS
2241 EQu ESTR IAN DR 1 A
MIAMISBURG OH 45342
937 - 312- 0291
E-MAIL wacoasoaolcom DUES $20 PER YEAR $25 FOREIGN
NEWSLETTER BIMONTHLY
Western Waco Association BARRY F BRANIN
1790 PANAY CIRCLE
COSTA MESA CA 92626
714-920-9226
E-MAIL flywacojuno com Du ES $5 PER YEAR
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MULTIPLE AIRCRAFTORGANIZATION S
Florida Antique Biplane Assoc Inc LARRY ROBINSON
10906 DENOEU ROAD
BOYNTON BEACH FL 33437
561-732-3250 FAX 561-732-2532
E-MAIL BeyeViewaolcom DUES $48 YEAR
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National Biplane Association CHARLES W HARRIS
PO Box 470350
TULSA OK 74147-0350
918-622-8400 FAX 918-665-0039
E-MAIL cwhhvsucom WEB wwwnationalbiplaneassnorg WEB wwwbiplaneexpocom DUES $25 INDIVIDUAL $40 FAMILY ADD
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North American Trainer Association (T6 T28 NA64 NA50 P51 B25)
KATHY amp STONEY STONICH
25801 NE H INNESS ROAD
BRUSH PRAIRIE WA 98606
360-256-0066 FAX 360-896-5398
E-MAIL NATraineraolcom WEBSITE wwwNorthAmericanTrainerorg DUES $45 US amp CANADA $55 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY NATA SKYLINES
Taildragger Club ASA DEAN
16216 N 34TH WAY
PHOENIX AZ 85032-3119 CELL 602-622-8335
E-MAIL asataildraggercluborg wwwtaildraggercluborgtdc
WWI Aeroplanes Inc LEONARD OPDYCKE
15 CRESCENT ROAD POUGHKEEPSIE NY 12601
845-473-3679
JOURNALS WWI AERO AND SKYWAYS
PER QRTRLY JOURNAL $35IYR $40 FOREIGN
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American Aviation Historical Society BRUCE CUNNINGHAM
2333 OTIS STREET
SANTA ANA CA 92704
714-549-4818 FAX 714-549-3657 E-MAIL presaahs-onlineorg WEBSITE wwwaahsonlineorg DUES $39 US $44 CANADA amp MEXICO $57 FOREIGN (US FUNDS)
NEWSLETTER amp JOURNAL QUARTERLY
Cross amp Cockade BOB SHELDON SECRETARY
14329 S CALHOUN AVE
BURNHAM IL 60633 708-862-1014
Du ES $15 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER EVERY OTHER MONTH
Eastern Reg US Air Racing Assoc JACK DIANISKA PRESIDENT 26726 HENRY ROAD
BAY VILLAGE OH 44140 440-871-3781
E-MAIL svcsaolcom
Flying Farmers International PO Box 9124
WICHITA KS 67277-0124 316-943-4234 FAX 800-266-5415
E-MAIL supportflyingfarmersorg WEB wwwflyingfarmersorg DUES $60YR MAGAZINES 6 MAGAZINES PER YEAR
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 23
Flying Octogenarians HERBERT SLOANE PO Box 11114 MONTGOMERY AL 36111-0114 334-832-2413 E-MAIL pilotherbyahoocom DUES $12 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Deaf Pilots Association CLYDE SMITH 1553 GRAVEL SPRINGS CIRCLE JACKSONVILLE IL 62650 E-MAIL clymarcsjnet WEB wwwdeafpilotsorg DUES $30 PER YEAR ACTIVE PILOTS
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Intl Fellowship of Flying Rotarians TOM SUROWKA WORLD SEcfTREAS 203A RUBENS DRIVE NOM IS FL 34275-4211 941-966-6636 FAX 941-966-9141 E-MAIL surowkaiffrorg WEBSITE wwwiffrorg
International Uaison Pilot ampAircraft Assoc BILL STRATTON 16518 LEDGESTONE SAN ANTONIO TX 78332-2406 210-490-4572 VOicEFAx E-MAIL ILPASTlCNET wwwcentercompcomILPAindexhtml DUES $29YR US $35 FOREIGN NEWSLETTER LIAISON SPOKEN HERE
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International Wheelchair Aviators po Box 2799 BIG BEAR CITY CA 92314 909-585-9663 FAX 909-585-7156 E-MAIL iwaviatorsaolcom WEB wwwwheelchairaviatorsorg
International Women in Aviation DR PEGGY J CHABRIAN 101 CORSAIR DRIVE DAYTONA BEACH FL 32114 386-226-7996 FAX 386-226-7998 WEBSITE wwwwaiorg DUES $39 PER YEAR - $29 STUDENTS MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
Lake Amphibian Flyers Club MARK amp JILL RODSTE IN 7188 MANDARIN DRIVE BOCA RATON FL 33433-7412 561-483-6566 FAX 561 -892-3128 E- MAIL infolakeflyerscom DUES $58 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
National Air Racing Group BETTY SHERMAN 1932 MAHAN AVENUE RICHLAND WA 99352-2121 509- 946-5690 E-MA IL bettyshermanverizonnet WEBSITE wwwwarbirdaeropresscom DUES $15 US$20 OUTSIDE US NEWSLETTER MONTHLY
National Association of Priest Pilots MEL HEMANN 127 KASPEND PLACE CEDAR FALLS IA 50613-1683 319-266-3889 E-MAIL n298mhcfunet DUES $20 NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
The 99s Women Pilots 4300 AMELIA EARHART ROAD OKLAHOMA CITY OK 73159 800-994-1929 FAX 405-685-7985 E-MAIL IHQ99sCSCOM WEB wwwninety-ninesorg DUES $65 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER BI-MONTHLY
ox-s Aviation Pioneers ELMER H HANSEN NATL SECRETARY 12220 NE 39TH STR EET BELLEVUE WA 98005-1217 425-885-0299 E-MAIL elmerhansenverizonnet WEB wwwox5pioneersorg DUES $20 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER 6 PER YEAR
Piper Aviation Museum Foundation DAN SHOWAN ONE PIPER WAY LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0052 570-748-8283 FAX 570-893-8357 E-MAIL pipercubkcnetorg WEBSITE wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $30 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Replica Fighters Association 1528 S KOELLER PMB 111 OSHKOSH WI 54902 E-MAIL presidentreplicafightersorg WEBSITE wwwreplicafightersorg DUES $25 YR $30 FOREIGN ( US FUNDS ) NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Seaplane Pilots Association MICHAEL VOLK 4315 HIGHLAND PARK BLVD SUITE C LAKELAND FL 33813 863- 701 - 7979 FAX 863-701-7588 E- MAIL spaseaplanesorg WEBSITE wwwseaplanesorg DUES $40 PER YEAR MAGAZINE BI-MONTHLY
Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven Inc JOHN L BUCHAN FLY- IN DIRECTOR P O Box J-3 LOCK HAVEN PA 17745-0496 570-893-4200 FAX 570-893-4218 E-MAIL Pipercubkcnetorg wwwpipermuseumcom DUES $10 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Silver Wings Fraternity PO Box 44208 CINCINNATI OH 45244 800-554-1437 E-MAIL cardinaI5msncom WEBSITE wwwsilverwingsorg DUES $201 ST YEAR $10 RENEW NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Society of Air Racing Historians HERMAN SCHAUB 168 MAR ION LANE BEREA OH 44017 440- 234-2301 E- MAIL hermanairracecom WEBSITE wwwairracecom DUES $20YR US - $23 OTHER S NEWSLETTER BI-MONTHLY
Taylorcraft Foundation Inc FORREST A BARBER EXEC DIR 13820 UN ION AVE NE ALLIANCE OH 44601-9378 330-823-1168 FAX 330-823 - 1138 E-MAIL fbarberalliancelinkcom WEBSITE wwwtaylorcraftorg DUES $10 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTER LY
Vintage Sailplane Association DAVID SCHUUR 1709 BARON COURT DAYTONA BEACH FL 32128 E-MAIL dschuurfrtcinet WEB wwwvintagesailplaneorg DUES $15 PER YEAR NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
Waco Historical Society Inc WACO AIRCRAFT MUSEUM MARLA BOONE DIR OF MEMBERSH IP P O Box 62 TR OY OH 45373-0062 937 -335- WACO E-MAI L mSimonbooneyahoocom WEB wwwwacoairmuseumorg 1-5PM SAT-SUN MAy-OCTOBER DUES $20YR AND UP NEWSLETTER QUARTERLY
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
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SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
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NEWSLETTER HATZ HERALD ( 3) 16 PG
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
SEPTEMBER 4-Marion IN-14th Annual Fly-In Cruise-In Marion Municipal Airport Event feashytures antique classic contemporary homebuilt ultralight amp warbird aircraft and vintage cars trucks motorcycles and tractors Pancake Breakfast Info rayjohnsonFlylnCruiselncom or wwwFlylnCruiseIncom
SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
OCTOBER 2-3-Midland TX-AIRshySHO 2004 Midland Int l Airport Commemorative Air Force HQ Info 432-563-1000 est 2231 or publicrelationscafhqmiddotorg
JUNE 28-27 Rocky Mountain fAA Regional Fly-In l ongmont CO (2V2) wwwrmrfiorg
JUlY 7-11 Northwest EAA Fly-In Arlington WA (AWO) wwwnweaaorg
JULY 27-AUGUST 2 EM AirVenture Oshkosh Oshkosh WI (OSH) wwwairventureorg
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OCTOBER 7-10 Copperstate EAA Regional Fly-In Phoenix AZ (A39) wwwcopperstateorg
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
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July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
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FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
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early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
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Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
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The following list of coming events is furnished to our readers as a matter of information only and does not constitute approval sponsorship involvement control or direction ofany event (flyshyin seminars fl y market etc) listed To submit an event please log on to wwweaa orgevents events asp Only if Internet access is unavailable should you send the information via mail to Att Vintage Airplane PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Information should be received four months prior to the event date
FEBRUARY 7-Tampa FL-TGIshyFLYIN The Aerospace Rendz Gasparilla Airport aka Peter O Knight Airport
MAY 7-9-Burlington NC-VAA Ch 3 Annual Spring Fly-In Alashymance County Airport (BUY) All Classes welcome Info Jim 843-753-7138 or eiwilsonhomeexpresswaynet
MAY 16--Romeoville IL-33rd Annual EAA Ch 15 Fly-In Breakfast 7am-Noon Lewis University Airport (LOT) Adults $5 under twelve $3 Info 630shy243-8213
JUNE 4-5-Bartlesville OK-18th Annual Biplane Expo All airshycraft and airplane enthusiasts are welcome Static displays forums seminars amp exhibits Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
JUNE 4-6--Columbia CA-Belshylanca-Champion Club West Coast Fly-In (022) Camping hotelmotel facilities Friday BBQ Saturday steak dinner mtg Advance registration strongly encouraged Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championclubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
JUNE S-6--Washington lA-Fly Iowa 2004 amp Diamond Anshyniversary of D-Day usa Show-Dance Evening of 5th All aircraft welcome Infowwwmiddotflyiowa2004com
JUNE 11-I3-Gainesville TXshyTexas Ch Antique Airplane Association 41st Annual FlyshyIn Gainesville Municipal Airport (GLE) Info Jim 817shy468-1571
JUNE 16-19-Lock Haven PA-19th Annual Sentimental Journey to Cub Haven 2004 Fly in drive in camp Info 570-893-4200 or j2cubkcnetorg
July 27-August 2-EAA AirVenture Oshkosh (KOSH) wwwairventureorg
AUGUST 13-15-Alliance OH-6th Annual Ohio Aeronca Aviators Fly-In Alliance-Barber Airport (201) Breakfast Sat amp Sun 7shyllam by EAA Ch 82 Primitive camping on field local lodging available All welcome Info 216shy337-5643 bwmatzllacyahoocom or wwwoaafly-incom
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SEPTEMBER IS-Bartlesville OKshy48th Annual Tulsa Regional Fly-In Info Charlie Harris 918shy622-8400
OCTOBER 1-3-Pottstown PA-Belshylanca-Champion Club East Coast Fly-In Pottstown Municishypal Airport (N47) Info 518-731-6800 Robertbellanca-championcJubcom or wwwbellanca-championcJubcom
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Flight Control Cables NICK REZICH continued from page 5 Custom Manufactured
to Rockford Ill inois just as EAA share his love of aviation with had done with its fly-in In Rockshy young people One of the youngshyford he flew for many years for the sters he helped was his son Jim Atwood Vacuum Machine Co Over who would solo a J-3 at age 16 and the co u rse of his career h e flew move on to both AampPIA and ATP nearly 35000 accident-free hours ratings Under his fathers tutelage
Each Cable is Proof Load Tested He loved to fly for fun and to he soloed the family Travel Air 0shyand Prestretched for Stabili ty -------------------- 4000
Quick Delivery Nick helped found Reasonable Prices EAAs AntiqueClassic
division in the 1970sCertification to MIL-T-6117 served as its firstamp MIL-C-5688A treasurer and wrote a
1 16 to 1 4 monthly column Certified Bulk Cable and Reminiscing With
Fittings are Available Big Nick for the magazine Nick pershy-McFalane
The second airplane owned by the brothers was this ox- formed ro les at EAAAviation Products
5 powered Travel Air 2000 NC661H Franks in the continuously fromMcFarlane Aviation Inc 696 E 1700 Road cockpit The silver with red trim airplane was bought for 1956 until the early
Baldwin City KS 66006 $400 in Washington DC by Mike and sold in 1942 to 80s when throat800-544-8594
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VAA NEWS continued from page 2
early 2004 with a final approved AC available as early as the end of 2004
Decals A couple of our members are searching for art shy
work andor decals to help add finishing touches to their restorations The first is the older Sensenich Brothers logo that features the initials S B a circle and a pair of wings It was used on early Sensenich propellers prior to World War II
The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
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All items sent to us for use in the Vintage Airshyplane Calendar of Events will be included in the calendar published within the VAA website at wwwvintageaircratorg
If youd like your event to be added to the EAA website Calendar of Events you can do so at wwweaaorgevents To be published in both EAA and VAA locations a message must be sent to VAA as noted above as well as being entered on the EAA website
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Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
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As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
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Flight Control Cables NICK REZICH continued from page 5 Custom Manufactured
to Rockford Ill inois just as EAA share his love of aviation with had done with its fly-in In Rockshy young people One of the youngshyford he flew for many years for the sters he helped was his son Jim Atwood Vacuum Machine Co Over who would solo a J-3 at age 16 and the co u rse of his career h e flew move on to both AampPIA and ATP nearly 35000 accident-free hours ratings Under his fathers tutelage
Each Cable is Proof Load Tested He loved to fly for fun and to he soloed the family Travel Air 0shyand Prestretched for Stabili ty -------------------- 4000
Quick Delivery Nick helped found Reasonable Prices EAAs AntiqueClassic
division in the 1970sCertification to MIL-T-6117 served as its firstamp MIL-C-5688A treasurer and wrote a
1 16 to 1 4 monthly column Certified Bulk Cable and Reminiscing With
Fittings are Available Big Nick for the magazine Nick pershy-McFalane
The second airplane owned by the brothers was this ox- formed ro les at EAAAviation Products
5 powered Travel Air 2000 NC661H Franks in the continuously fromMcFarlane Aviation Inc 696 E 1700 Road cockpit The silver with red trim airplane was bought for 1956 until the early
Baldwin City KS 66006 $400 in Washington DC by Mike and sold in 1942 to 80s when throat800-544-8594
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The second logo would at first glance seem like a simple request but the artwork is proving to be elushysive On pre-war Aeronca airplanes like the C-3 a full-color Aeronca winged logo decal was applied to the vertical fin There have been a few variations of the artwork but the one our fellow restorer curshyrently needs is the one used on the C-3 which has a white background with red and blue highlights added over the white The red has a decidedly airshybrushed look to it
If you can help us with the artwork andor deshycals (not stickers) for either of these two items call us at VAA headquarters 920-426-4825 or e-mail us at vintageeaa01g
Calendar of Events If you have a fly-in youd like included in the
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Due to the sheer volshyume of items sent we ask that you please include the following information in this order
Date location (citystate) airport name and identifier event name a short description of the event and contact information (including fax eshymail and phone numbers as appropriate)
All items sent to us for use in the Vintage Airshyplane Calendar of Events will be included in the calendar published within the VAA website at wwwvintageaircratorg
If youd like your event to be added to the EAA website Calendar of Events you can do so at wwweaaorgevents To be published in both EAA and VAA locations a message must be sent to VAA as noted above as well as being entered on the EAA website
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For Sale - 1939 Spartan Executive 3500TT 10 SMOH 214-354-6418
TOMMY COME HOMEI EAA Chapter 811 is looking for a Thomas Morse Scout to bring home to where it was made in Ithaca NY Please send any leads (and an indication of condition) to David Flinn 866 Ridge Rd Lansing NY 14882-8603 email Davestarflinncom
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EAA Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine and one year membership in the lAC Division is ava ilable for $55 per year (SPORT
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WARBIRDS Current EAA members may join the EAA Warshy
birds of America Division and receive WARBlRDS magazine for an additional $40 per year
EAA Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds Divishysion is available for $50 per yea r (SPORT AVIATION magaZine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage_)
EAA EXPERIMENTER Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER magaZine for an addishy
tional $20 per year EAA Membership and EAA EXPERIMENTER
magaZine is available for $30 per year (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (A dd $8 for Foreign Postage)
FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS Please submit your remittance with a check or draft drawn on a United States bank payable in Uni ted St ates dollars Add required Foreign Postage amount for each membership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy2004 by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved
VINTAGE AIRPlANE (ISSN 0091-6943) IPM 40032445 is published and owned exclusively by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association of the EXperimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WISConsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM Vintage Aircraft Association PO Box 3088 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Return Canadian issues to Station A PO Box 54 Windsor ON N9A 615 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPlANE to loreign and APO addresses via surface mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and wekxgtme any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising SO that corrective measures can be taken
EDITORIAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to subm~ stooes and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor No renumeration is made Material should be sent to Editor VINTAGE AIRPlANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone 920426-4800
EMf) and SPORT AVIATIONfJ the EM Logof) and Aeronautica~ are registered trademarks trademarks and service marks of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc The use of these trademarks and service marks without the permission of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is strictly prohibited
The EM AVIATION FOUNDATION Logo is a trademark of the EM Aviation Foundation Inc The use of this trademark without the permission of the EAA Aviation Foundation Inc is strictly prohibited
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
Order Online httpshopeaaorg
Navy MA-1 Jacket Stay warm in this great looking
jacket with the Vintage logo This jacket has a bright orange lining and comes in youth and adult sizes
- ~ bull I
Adult md Vl0l02 $4295 Adult 19 V10103 Adult xl V10104 Adult 2x Vl0l05
Pilot Bear Bank $1295
Youth sm V00605 $3895 Youth md V00606 Youth 19 V00607 Youth xl V00608
There is no doubt that this cute resin bear is an aviation buff He sits approxishymately 6inches high holding his favorite toy
Bank V51479
Weather Vane Handcrafted using 14 gauge solid
steel with a durable copper vein powder coated finish baked on The textured finish gives the appearace of hammered copper State garden or house mount
Weather Vane V00711
$4595
Picture Frame Beautifully crafted wooden
frame in three sizes 4x6 V01207 $2399 5x7 V01220 $2499 8xl0 V01222 $2899
Black Polo $3995 This black pocket polo has a tan
birds-eye trim and the Vintage logo in tone-on-tone
sm Vl1438 md V07044 19 V07045 xl V07046
Forest Polo $2195 This 100 cotton polo with a toneshy
on-tone VAA logo is so versatile it can be worn for business casual or just plain fun
Sm V11442 Md V07041 Lg V07042 Xl V07043
Three-piece Baby Outfit ~
Set includes a soft t-shirt appliqued
Traveler Print Bag $3995 Take your essentials or throw
together a days necessities into this 12x14 travel companion Choose a vertical bag ~1IIIIiiijiiiiii4-~__J~ with cloth handles or a horizontal bag with black handles
Bag VOl168
~ Blue Trim Polo $3995 Butter cream in color with two blue
stripes on the collar and sleeve edge this polo is made of 100 combed cotton
Sm Vl1437 Md V07027 19 V07028 Xl V07029
with an airplane pants and hat State color choice of blues or pinks
6 month size V03130 12 month size V03131
Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
The best is affordable Give AUA a call - its FREE
800middot727middot Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
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2009 Highland Ave 7215 East 46th SI Albert Lea MN 56007 Tulsa OK 74147
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Cannon Falls MN 55009 Hartford WI 53027 507-263-24 14 262-966-7627
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Robert C Bob Brauer Robert D Bob Lumley 9345 S H0J3e 1265 South 124th St
Chicago It 20 Brookfield WI 53005 773-779-2105 262-782-2633
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John S Copeland Dean Richardson IA Deacon Street 1429 KingsvVnn Rd
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Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Associshyation Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT AVIATION Family membership is available for an additional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 years of age) is available at $23 annually All major credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for Foreign Postage_)
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Aircraft A5sociaton and receive VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE magazine for an additional $36 per year
EAA Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE magaZine and one year membership in the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association is available for $46 per year (SPORT AVIATION magaZine not in shycluded) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage_)
lAC Current EAA members may join the Internashy
tional Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an addishytional $45 per year
EAA Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine and one year membership in the lAC Division is ava ilable for $55 per year (SPORT
AVIATION magazine not included) (Add $15 for Foreign Postage_)
WARBIRDS Current EAA members may join the EAA Warshy
birds of America Division and receive WARBlRDS magazine for an additional $40 per year
EAA Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds Divishysion is available for $50 per yea r (SPORT AVIATION magaZine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage_)
EAA EXPERIMENTER Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER magaZine for an addishy
tional $20 per year EAA Membership and EAA EXPERIMENTER
magaZine is available for $30 per year (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (A dd $8 for Foreign Postage)
FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS Please submit your remittance with a check or draft drawn on a United States bank payable in Uni ted St ates dollars Add required Foreign Postage amount for each membership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy2004 by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved
VINTAGE AIRPlANE (ISSN 0091-6943) IPM 40032445 is published and owned exclusively by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association of the EXperimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WISConsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM Vintage Aircraft Association PO Box 3088 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Return Canadian issues to Station A PO Box 54 Windsor ON N9A 615 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPlANE to loreign and APO addresses via surface mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and wekxgtme any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising SO that corrective measures can be taken
EDITORIAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to subm~ stooes and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor No renumeration is made Material should be sent to Editor VINTAGE AIRPlANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone 920426-4800
EMf) and SPORT AVIATIONfJ the EM Logof) and Aeronautica~ are registered trademarks trademarks and service marks of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc The use of these trademarks and service marks without the permission of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is strictly prohibited
The EM AVIATION FOUNDATION Logo is a trademark of the EM Aviation Foundation Inc The use of this trademark without the permission of the EAA Aviation Foundation Inc is strictly prohibited
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
Order Online httpshopeaaorg
Navy MA-1 Jacket Stay warm in this great looking
jacket with the Vintage logo This jacket has a bright orange lining and comes in youth and adult sizes
- ~ bull I
Adult md Vl0l02 $4295 Adult 19 V10103 Adult xl V10104 Adult 2x Vl0l05
Pilot Bear Bank $1295
Youth sm V00605 $3895 Youth md V00606 Youth 19 V00607 Youth xl V00608
There is no doubt that this cute resin bear is an aviation buff He sits approxishymately 6inches high holding his favorite toy
Bank V51479
Weather Vane Handcrafted using 14 gauge solid
steel with a durable copper vein powder coated finish baked on The textured finish gives the appearace of hammered copper State garden or house mount
Weather Vane V00711
$4595
Picture Frame Beautifully crafted wooden
frame in three sizes 4x6 V01207 $2399 5x7 V01220 $2499 8xl0 V01222 $2899
Black Polo $3995 This black pocket polo has a tan
birds-eye trim and the Vintage logo in tone-on-tone
sm Vl1438 md V07044 19 V07045 xl V07046
Forest Polo $2195 This 100 cotton polo with a toneshy
on-tone VAA logo is so versatile it can be worn for business casual or just plain fun
Sm V11442 Md V07041 Lg V07042 Xl V07043
Three-piece Baby Outfit ~
Set includes a soft t-shirt appliqued
Traveler Print Bag $3995 Take your essentials or throw
together a days necessities into this 12x14 travel companion Choose a vertical bag ~1IIIIiiijiiiiii4-~__J~ with cloth handles or a horizontal bag with black handles
Bag VOl168
~ Blue Trim Polo $3995 Butter cream in color with two blue
stripes on the collar and sleeve edge this polo is made of 100 combed cotton
Sm Vl1437 Md V07027 19 V07028 Xl V07029
with an airplane pants and hat State color choice of blues or pinks
6 month size V03130 12 month size V03131
Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
The best is affordable Give AUA a call - its FREE
800middot727middot Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
RANGE ROVER ) THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE
fsectd~~ Vehicle Discount
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President Vice-President Espie Butch Joyce George Daubner 704 N Regional Rd 2448 Lough lane
Greensboro NC 27409 Hartford WI 53027 336-668-3650 262-673-5885
windsockaoleom vaaflyboymsncom
Sltcretary Treasurer Steve Nesse Charles W Harris
2009 Highland Ave 7215 East 46th SI Albert Lea MN 56007 Tulsa OK 74147
507-373-1674 918-622-8400 stnesdeskmediacom cwhhv5ucom
DIRECTORS Steve Bender Dale A Gustafson
85 Brush Hill Road 7724 Shady Hills Dr Sherborn MA 01770 Indianapolis IN 46278
508-653-7557 317-293-4430 sstlOcomcastnet dalefayemsncom
David Bennett Jeannie Hill PO Box 1188 Po Box 328
Roseville CA 95678 Harvard IL 60033-0328 916-645-8370 815-943-7205
antiquerinreachcom dinghaoowcnet
John Berendt Steve Krog 7645 Echo Point Rd 1002 Heather Ln
Cannon Falls MN 55009 Hartford WI 53027 507-263-24 14 262-966-7627
fchldroonnectcom sskrogaolcom
Robert C Bob Brauer Robert D Bob Lumley 9345 S H0J3e 1265 South 124th St
Chicago It 20 Brookfield WI 53005 773-779-2105 262-782-2633
photopilotaoLcom lumperexecpceorn
Dave Clark Gene Morris 635 Vestal lane 5936 Steve Court
Plainfield IN 46168 Roanoke TX 76262 317-839-4500 817-49 1-9110
davecpdiqueslnet n03captnashnet
John S Copeland Dean Richardson IA Deacon Street 1429 KingsvVnn Rd
Stoughton 53589North~~~~~4~t501532 608-877-8485 copelandljunocom daraprilairecom
PhU Coulson Geoff Robison 284 I 5 Springbrook Dr 1521 E MacGregor Dr
lawton MI 49065 New Haven IN 46774 269-624-6490 260-493-4724
rcoulsonSl6cscom chiel7025aolcom
Roger GomoU SH Wes Schmid 8891 Airport Rd Box C2 2359 Lefeber Avenue
Blaine MN 55449 Wauwatosa WI 53213 763-786-3342 414-771-1545
pledgedrivemsncom shschmidmilwpceom
DIRECTORS EMERITUS
Gene Chase EE Buck Hilbert 2159 Carlton Rd PO Box 424
Oshkosh WI 54904 Union IL 60180 920-231-5002 815-923-4591
GRCHAcharternet buck7acmcnet
Membership Services Directory-ENJOY THE MANY BENEFITS OF EAA AND THE EAA VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION ~
EAA Aviation Center PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone (920) 426-4800 Fax (920) 426-4873
Web Site httpwwweaaorg and httpwwwairtJentureorg E-Mail vintage eaaorg
EAA and Division Membership Services 800-843-3612 ___ FAX 920-426-6761 (800 AM-700 PM Monday-Friday CSn bull New renew memberships EAA Divisions
(Vintage Aircraft Association lAC Warbirds) National Association of Hight Instructors (NAFI)
bull Address changes bull Merchandise sales bull Gift memberships
Programs and Activities EAA AirVenture Fax-On-Demand Directory middot ___ 732-885-6711 Auto Fuel STCs __ 920-426-4843 Buildrestore information _ _ 920-426-4821 Chapters locatingorganizing _ 920-426-4876 Education _ 920-426-6815
bull EAA Air Academy bull EAA Scholarships
Hight Advisors information 920-426-6522 Hight Instructor infonnation 920-426-6801 Hying Start Program 920-426-6847 Library Services Research 920-426-4848 Medical Questions 920-426-4821 Techn ical Counselors 920-426-4821 Young Eagles _ 920-426-4831 Benefits AUA _ __ _ 800-727-3823 EAA Aircraft Insurance Plan 866-647-4322 Term Life and Accidental _800-241 -6103 Death Insurance (Harvey Watt amp Company) Editorial 920-426-4825 FAX 920-426-4828
bull Submitting article photo bull Advertising information
EAA Aviation Foundation Artifact Donations 920-426-4877 Financial Support _ 800-236-1025
MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION EAA
Membership in the Experimental Aircraft Associshyation Inc is $40 for one year including 12 issues of SPORT AVIATION Family membership is available for an additional $10 annually Junior Membership (under 19 years of age) is available at $23 annually All major credit cards accepted for membership (Add $16 for Foreign Postage_)
VINTAGE AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION Current EAA members may join the Vintage
Aircraft A5sociaton and receive VINTAGE AIRshyPLANE magazine for an additional $36 per year
EAA Membership VINTAGE AIRPLANE magaZine and one year membership in the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association is available for $46 per year (SPORT AVIATION magaZine not in shycluded) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage_)
lAC Current EAA members may join the Internashy
tional Aerobatic Club Inc Division and receive SPORT AEROBATICS magazine for an addishytional $45 per year
EAA Membership SPORT AEROBATICS magazine and one year membership in the lAC Division is ava ilable for $55 per year (SPORT
AVIATION magazine not included) (Add $15 for Foreign Postage_)
WARBIRDS Current EAA members may join the EAA Warshy
birds of America Division and receive WARBlRDS magazine for an additional $40 per year
EAA Membership WARBIRDS magazine and one year membership in the Warbirds Divishysion is available for $50 per yea r (SPORT AVIATION magaZine not included) (Add $7 for Foreign Postage_)
EAA EXPERIMENTER Current EAA members may receive EAA EXPERIMENTER magaZine for an addishy
tional $20 per year EAA Membership and EAA EXPERIMENTER
magaZine is available for $30 per year (SPORT AVIATION magazine not included) (A dd $8 for Foreign Postage)
FOREIGN MEMBERSHIPS Please submit your remittance with a check or draft drawn on a United States bank payable in Uni ted St ates dollars Add required Foreign Postage amount for each membership
Membership dues to EAA and its divisions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions
Copyright copy2004 by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association All rights reserved
VINTAGE AIRPlANE (ISSN 0091-6943) IPM 40032445 is published and owned exclusively by the EAA Vintage Aircraft Association of the EXperimental Aircraft Association and is published monthly at EM Aviation Center 3000 Poberezny Rd PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WISConsin 54903-3086 Periodicals Postage paid at Oshkosh Wisconsin 54901 and at additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to EM Vintage Aircraft Association PO Box 3088 Oshkosh WI 54903-3088 Return Canadian issues to Station A PO Box 54 Windsor ON N9A 615 FOREIGN AND APO ADDRESSES - Please allow at least two months for delivery of VINTAGE AIRPlANE to loreign and APO addresses via surface mail ADVERTISING - Vintage Aircraft Association does not guarantee or endorse any product offered through the advertising We invite constructive criticism and wekxgtme any report of inferior merchandise obtained through our advertising SO that corrective measures can be taken
EDITORIAl POLICY Readers are encouraged to subm~ stooes and photographs Policy opinions expressed in articles are solely those of the authors Responsibility for accuracy in reporting rests entirely with the contributor No renumeration is made Material should be sent to Editor VINTAGE AIRPlANE PO Box 3086 Oshkosh WI 54903-3086 Phone 920426-4800
EMf) and SPORT AVIATIONfJ the EM Logof) and Aeronautica~ are registered trademarks trademarks and service marks of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc The use of these trademarks and service marks without the permission of the Experimental Aircraft Association Inc is strictly prohibited
The EM AVIATION FOUNDATION Logo is a trademark of the EM Aviation Foundation Inc The use of this trademark without the permission of the EAA Aviation Foundation Inc is strictly prohibited
VINTAGE AIRPLANE 29
Order Online httpshopeaaorg
Navy MA-1 Jacket Stay warm in this great looking
jacket with the Vintage logo This jacket has a bright orange lining and comes in youth and adult sizes
- ~ bull I
Adult md Vl0l02 $4295 Adult 19 V10103 Adult xl V10104 Adult 2x Vl0l05
Pilot Bear Bank $1295
Youth sm V00605 $3895 Youth md V00606 Youth 19 V00607 Youth xl V00608
There is no doubt that this cute resin bear is an aviation buff He sits approxishymately 6inches high holding his favorite toy
Bank V51479
Weather Vane Handcrafted using 14 gauge solid
steel with a durable copper vein powder coated finish baked on The textured finish gives the appearace of hammered copper State garden or house mount
Weather Vane V00711
$4595
Picture Frame Beautifully crafted wooden
frame in three sizes 4x6 V01207 $2399 5x7 V01220 $2499 8xl0 V01222 $2899
Black Polo $3995 This black pocket polo has a tan
birds-eye trim and the Vintage logo in tone-on-tone
sm Vl1438 md V07044 19 V07045 xl V07046
Forest Polo $2195 This 100 cotton polo with a toneshy
on-tone VAA logo is so versatile it can be worn for business casual or just plain fun
Sm V11442 Md V07041 Lg V07042 Xl V07043
Three-piece Baby Outfit ~
Set includes a soft t-shirt appliqued
Traveler Print Bag $3995 Take your essentials or throw
together a days necessities into this 12x14 travel companion Choose a vertical bag ~1IIIIiiijiiiiii4-~__J~ with cloth handles or a horizontal bag with black handles
Bag VOl168
~ Blue Trim Polo $3995 Butter cream in color with two blue
stripes on the collar and sleeve edge this polo is made of 100 combed cotton
Sm Vl1437 Md V07027 19 V07028 Xl V07029
with an airplane pants and hat State color choice of blues or pinks
6 month size V03130 12 month size V03131
Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
The best is affordable Give AUA a call - its FREE
800middot727middot Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
RANGE ROVER ) THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE
fsectd~~ Vehicle Discount
Order Online httpshopeaaorg
Navy MA-1 Jacket Stay warm in this great looking
jacket with the Vintage logo This jacket has a bright orange lining and comes in youth and adult sizes
- ~ bull I
Adult md Vl0l02 $4295 Adult 19 V10103 Adult xl V10104 Adult 2x Vl0l05
Pilot Bear Bank $1295
Youth sm V00605 $3895 Youth md V00606 Youth 19 V00607 Youth xl V00608
There is no doubt that this cute resin bear is an aviation buff He sits approxishymately 6inches high holding his favorite toy
Bank V51479
Weather Vane Handcrafted using 14 gauge solid
steel with a durable copper vein powder coated finish baked on The textured finish gives the appearace of hammered copper State garden or house mount
Weather Vane V00711
$4595
Picture Frame Beautifully crafted wooden
frame in three sizes 4x6 V01207 $2399 5x7 V01220 $2499 8xl0 V01222 $2899
Black Polo $3995 This black pocket polo has a tan
birds-eye trim and the Vintage logo in tone-on-tone
sm Vl1438 md V07044 19 V07045 xl V07046
Forest Polo $2195 This 100 cotton polo with a toneshy
on-tone VAA logo is so versatile it can be worn for business casual or just plain fun
Sm V11442 Md V07041 Lg V07042 Xl V07043
Three-piece Baby Outfit ~
Set includes a soft t-shirt appliqued
Traveler Print Bag $3995 Take your essentials or throw
together a days necessities into this 12x14 travel companion Choose a vertical bag ~1IIIIiiijiiiiii4-~__J~ with cloth handles or a horizontal bag with black handles
Bag VOl168
~ Blue Trim Polo $3995 Butter cream in color with two blue
stripes on the collar and sleeve edge this polo is made of 100 combed cotton
Sm Vl1437 Md V07027 19 V07028 Xl V07029
with an airplane pants and hat State color choice of blues or pinks
6 month size V03130 12 month size V03131
Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
The best is affordable Give AUA a call - its FREE
800middot727middot Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
RANGE ROVER ) THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE
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Three-piece Baby Outfit ~
Set includes a soft t-shirt appliqued
Traveler Print Bag $3995 Take your essentials or throw
together a days necessities into this 12x14 travel companion Choose a vertical bag ~1IIIIiiijiiiiii4-~__J~ with cloth handles or a horizontal bag with black handles
Bag VOl168
~ Blue Trim Polo $3995 Butter cream in color with two blue
stripes on the collar and sleeve edge this polo is made of 100 combed cotton
Sm Vl1437 Md V07027 19 V07028 Xl V07029
with an airplane pants and hat State color choice of blues or pinks
6 month size V03130 12 month size V03131
Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
The best is affordable Give AUA a call - its FREE
800middot727middot Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
RANGE ROVER ) THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE
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Induction 01 Thomas H Davis info the Hall 01 Fame - December J7 J998 From left (kneeling) Mark Allen Carolinas Historic Aviation Commission Jim Taylor (standing) Floyd Wilson CHAC Jack Frye CHAC Frank Davis Billy Barber Eddie Culler Howard Cartwright Egbert Davis Thomas H Davis Howard Miller Russ Ferris Bill McGee Robert Northington
Nineteen good years with AU A Inc
Their knowledge of insuring the museum
type aircraft has been very helpfuL
- Howard Miller
AUA is Vintage Aircraft Association approveco To become a member 01 VAA call 800middot843middot3612
The best is affordable Give AUA a call - its FREE
800middot727middot Fly with the pros fly with AUA Inc
Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
RANGE ROVER ) THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE
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Not A The
As a word The is singular And definitive and apart and absolute in every way All of which makes it perfect The Range Rover
RANGE ROVER ) THE LAND ROVER EXPERIENCE
fsectd~~ Vehicle Discount