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G
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u N
E
VOL.
34
, NO . 6
2006
CONTENTS
1
Straight Level
by Geoff Robison
2 VAA
News
3
Aeromail
2
Sun
n
Fun
Judging
Results
6 Big
Nick's Scrapbook
Matty Laird's work for Roscoe Turner
by Jim
Rezich
9
Under
the
Wing, In
the
Shade-Sun
'n Fun 2006
Calling all Stea
rman
s and Stinsons, Pipers and Fairchilds,
Moths, Wacos, and more
by Sparky Barnes Sargent
16 Pass It
to
Buck
Turnbuckles
by Buck Hilbert
19 VAA
AirVenture
Map
Guide
24 The Vintage Instructor
Who s
in charge here?
by
Doug Stewart
26
Restoration
Corner
Fa
mil y involvement
by Art Morgan
28
The
Trella T-I06
A thoroughly modern
pusher
from 1949
by Robert
F.
Pauley
STAFF
E Publisher Tom Poberezny
E
Editor·in·
Ch
i
ef
Scott
Spangler
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GEOFF ROBISON
PRESIDENT, VINTAGE AI
RC
RAFT
S
S
OC
IATION
California
dreamin'
and
input
from
our
members
With April showers
hitting
the
Midwest
pretty
hard the first couple
of weeks in May, I was fortunate to
find myself on
the
West Coast where
the weather was delightful and the
vintage
spirit was
found to
be very
much alive and well, not to mention
exciting. It s now mid-May, and at
this particular
moment
in time I am
awaiting a flight
out
of Oakland, Cali
fornia, to catch up with the rain that
is still coming down back home in
the Midwest
and on the
East Coast.
My
time on
the
B-17
tour
has al
lowed me the
opportunity
to
visit
with a number
of
my
vintage
air
plane friends all over
the
country. Old
friends, and some now-new friends,
in the Hayward, Sonoma/Schell ville,
and Napa area really rolled out the
welcome mat for me,
and
a good time
was
had
by all.
As
a lot of you are aware, this area
of the country is absolutely rich with
old
flying machines. In the
more
than two weeks I spent in Califor
nia, I bet I poked my nose into more
having
the opportunity to
speak one
on-one with many of these folks and
responding
to the many questions
and
concerns that have been
raised
with
EAA
and
V Ns
ideas on address
ing
the
aging aircraft issue.
. . . this area of
the cou
ntr
y is
absolutely rich
with old flying
machines.
I really enjoyed the
opportunity
to
partake in personal discussions with
so
many
people in
the
vintage com
munity here
in California, many of
whom are mostly supportive of this
initiative. The opportunity to
ad
dress their questions face-to-face re
ally goes a long way
toward
having
My
response has been
that
we truly
realize we are on somewhat of a slip
pery slope and that we
know
a fair
number of
folks are
concerned that
excessive change in the world of re
storing
and maintaining
old aircraft
could prove to be detrimental if the
changes are
not
carefully formulated .
I have been telling everyone
to
keep
in mind
the EAA and
VAA have yet to
formulate
anything
even close to a
fi-
nal draft of what our proposal would
eventually look like. That s
why
con
structive
comments
from
and
dialog
with
the
membership is so beneficial.
Any time you deal with
the
federal
government, especially on the regu
latory side of
the
house, it must be
done within
an
environment of mu
tual trust.
Presently, we
at
EAA and
VAA
strongly believe that such
an
en
vironment
does exist and, in fact, has
never
been better
between the FAA
and EAA. Now is truly the time to ex
plore this issue further,
and
then
and
only then can
we present a proposal
that best suits and represents the en
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Share the
gift
of
flight
on
International
Young
Eagles
Day
EAA Young Eagles' biggest day of the year is nearly here Thousands of
young people from throughout the world will take to the sky on Saturday, June
10, for the
13th
annual EAA International Young Eagles
Day
IYEO).
More
than 80 000
volunteers have supported the program,
including
40 000
pilots, among them current program chairman, actor, and aviator
Har
rison Ford, who has personally flown 200
Young
Eagles.
Young
Eagles coordinators, remember to report back to Young Eagles head-
quarters about your
IYEO
flight rally at
YoungEagles@eaa org
Register
Your
Type
Club
Gathering
Online
Is
your type club
having
a dinner
and/or
meeting this year during EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh? Send the details
to EAA, and
we ll share
the
informa
tion with
the
membership on the EAA
being served at 5:30 p.m. Tickets for
the event
will be available, as usual,
at
the VAA Red
Barn.
If
your group or
type club
is
interested in purchasing a
block of tickets, please
contact
Jean
nie
Hill as
soon
as possible. If
noti
fied, we will gladly reserve an area for
Other Great
Stuff
While
you re
at
the
Red
Barn,
don t forget
to check
out our
Pio
neer video corner,
where
we ll
have
our
original Pioneer
videos playing
throughout the
week.
Through
these
videos, we
can
re
visit the
aviation
greats
who
are
no
longer able
to
be with us.
Pilots
attending with
their aircraft
can pick
up
complimentary
mugs
and plaques
at the
Red Barn. Coffee
mugs are available
to
all EAA pilots,
but
you
must also be a member of
VAA to
receive a
personalized
com
memorative plaque.
We will
once
again offer
the
Red
Carpet van
service
to our members
who
need assistance
getting
around
the
field. This service
is intended to
aid those
who
have
trouble walk
ing
or
who need to
carry
heavy
ob
jects, such as luggage,
camping
gear,
or
materials, to the forums
or other
outlying
areas. This service is avail
able only on the Wittman airport
grounds.
To
arrange transportation,
stop at the desk at the
Red Barn
or
call the Red Barn
at 920-230
-7796.
If you
don t
require van service, we
can
also
connect you to
a golf
cart
transportation
service available on
the
field. To add
to your
transporta
tion
options, trams will be
depart
ing daily from
the north
side
of the
Red Barn.
With
all of these avenues
available, getting around the
field
will be easier
than
ever. It s a good
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ntique
Homebuilt
Glider
I am looking for information or
photos of homebuilt gliders that were
being built during the time frame of
1927 through 1928. The students
at
Clemson
A
&
M
College
there at
Clemson
,
South
Carolina,
built
a
glider
and
flew i t a number
of
times,
but I have not been able to find even
a picture or
other
details about it.
It is
said that it took about three
months to
build it in a wood shop. The students
also built a small aircraft similar to the
Heath Parasol and flew it in 1929. I
have pictures of it.
Any information appreciated,
Otha H. Skeet VaughanJr.
10102 Westleigh Dr.
Huntsville,
AL
35803
skeetv@kn gy.net
Hangar Fires
When
I received
my
March 2006
issue of Vintage irplane and read
the
article by Glenn Scott, it brought back
unpleasant memories of another
hangar fire in 1992 that severely
damaged my 1948 Stinson
Station
Wagon
. My
airplane
had been
purchased
in
1975,
restored
in
1976-1978,
and in
1981 I flew it
to
Oshkosh and took home the award for
Outstanding Stinson.
I was quite proud to own
and
fly
such a beautiful airplane,
and
I kept
it
in
immaculate condition. Unfortunately,
dope, and it practically vanished. The
fire
had
started in a closed-in bay
at
the end
of a five-bay T-hangar. The
middle three bays were open to each
other and contained
my
Stinson, the
Starduster, and a
set
of homebuilt
wings
that
a local
homebuilder had
on sawhorses. The end bay
had
been
a maintenance bay in the past
and
contained shelves full of paint cans,
etc. Also in that bay were two old cars
and two old motorcycles. No airplane.
There were combustibles everywhere.
At the time the firemen arrived
the
airport owner's
son
was trying
to
reach in and cut the chains to slide
the
doors
open
in front of
my
Stinson,
but the firemen ran
him
off with the
statement
that it was their fire now.
Unfortunately, the
man-access
door
was down near the fire and there was
no other way to get the hangar door
open. The firemen made
no attempt to
open the door until the fire was out.
I
got to
the
airport just
as they
pulled
my smoking airplane out
.
I t
was a
sickening
sight, but I told the
local reporter that
the
old girl would
fly
again. I was fortunate to have used
the Stits Aerothane finish on
the
plane
= = ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
because at that time I believe it was
the only coating that
could
be used
on both the fabric
and
the metal. I
did not want a two-tone airplane five
years
down the
road. The
Aerothane
was truly flame-resistant, which saved
the
airplane from total destruction.
The structural damage was limited to
the wings and the vertical tail surfaces,
and these were scrapped
and
replaced
with parts from
other
airplanes.
The state police fire marshals were
not
able to
pinpoint th
e cause of the
fire,
but
I learned a bitter lesson .about
rented hangars. Specifically, be aware
of who and what are in the adjoining
hangar spaces. Keep after
the
manager
or owner
of
the airport
to
adopt
rules limiting
what
can be stored in
an airplane hangar, and be vigilant in
seeing that those rules are enforced.
Renters should
not accumulate
piles
of flammables or
lumber
or boats
around their airplanes. Fuel
in
cans
in the hangars
sho
uld not be allowed.
In
the case
of auto
fuel
users, the
cans should be dumped immediately
into the plane
's tanks
and the
cans
removed, as I do. Heaters should only
cont
inue
on p ge
4
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SUN ' N FUN
CLASSIC-
( BUILT
9/1/45
CLASSIC GRAND
CHAMPION
NC83739
CONTEMPORARY
1 /1 /56 TO 12/31/67)
BEST TWIN
N87711
1963 Beech H18
Steve
W.
Oxm
an
Riva, Maryl
and
BEST
RESTORED
N521VT
1957 Cessna 180
Jason]. Grieff
Sarasota, Florida
OUTSTANDING
IN
TYPE
N155P
1956 D-50 Twin Bonanza
John
R.
Carter
Gainesville, Georgia
OUTSTANDING
IN TYPE
N8704P 1965 Piper PA-24-260
Tracey
L
Potter
Hagerstown, Maryland
BEST CUSTOM NOT AWARDED IN 2006
-
12/31/55
)
1946 Aeronca 7AC
Champ
Leo Ro
berson
Williamson, Georgia
BEST CUSTOM CLASSIC
OVER 165 HP
N3214C
1954 Beechcraft Bonanza
E-35
Jeff Deaton
Morehead City, North Carolina
BEST CUSTOM CLASSIC
0 100 HP
N86122
1946 Aeronca llAC
William G. McCranie
Stone Mountain, Georgia
BEST RESTORED CLASSIC
0 -
100
HP
N2592
1946 Piper
PA-12
Scott Sharon Haggenmacher
Jonesboro, Arkansas
OUTSTANDING CLASSIC
AIRCRAFT
N4159
1955 Mooney M-18C
Keith Mackey
Ocala, Florida
OUTSTANDING CLASSIC
AIRCRAFT
N70971
ANTIQUE-
(
BUILT PRIOR TO
8/31 /45 )
GRAND
CHAMPION
NC488W
1931 Stearman SpeedmailJr. 4E
Todd Stuart
Key
West, Florida
RESERVE GRAND
CHAMPION
N15700
1935 WACO
YPF
Jerry Wenger
Owatonna, Minnesota
CUSTOM
CHAMPION
N9116H
1944 Stinson
V-77
AT-19
Don Henley
Sulphur Rock Arkansas
OUTSTANDING WWIl ERA
N782L
1942 Boeing Stearman
75
Brian Launder
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Friends of the Red
Barn Campaign
Many services are provided to vintage aircraft en
thusiasts at EAA AirVentu re Oshkosh. From
par
king
airplanes to feed ing people
at
the
Ta ll
Pines Cafe
and
Red Barn, more t han 400 volunteers do it all. So me
may ask, If vo lunteers are providing
the
services,
where
is
the expense?"
Glad you asked . The scooters fo r
the
flightline crew
need repair and batteries, and
the
Red Barn needs
paint, new windowsills, updated wiring, and oth er
su
ndry
repairs, plus we love
to
care
fo
r our
vo lunt
eers
with special recognition caps and a pizza party. The
list rea
ll
y could go on and on, but no
ma
tt er how
many expenses we
can
po i
nt
out, the need remains
constant. The Friends of the Red Barn fund he lps pay
for the VAA expenses at EAA Ai rVenture, an d is a cru
cial part of
the
Vintage Aircraft Association budget.
Please help the
VAA
and our 400-plus dedicated
volunteers make th
is
an
unforgettable experience for
our
many
EAA Ai
rVe nt
ure guests. We've made it even
more fun
to
give th
is
year,
with more
giving levels
to
fit each person's b
ud
get,
and
more interesting activi
ties for donors to be a part of.
Your contribution now really does make a differ
ence. There are six levels of gifts and gift recogn ition .
Thank you for whatever you
can
do.
Here are so me of
the
many activities the Friends of
th
e Red Barn
fu
nd underwrites:
• Red Barn Information Desk Supplies
• Participant
Plaques
and Supplies
• Toni's Red Carpet Express Repairs and Radios
• Caps
for
VAA Volunteers
• Pizza Party for VAA Volunteers
• Hightline
Parking
Scooters
and
Supplies
• Breakfast
for
Past
Grand
Champions
•
Volunteer
Booth Administrative Supplies
•
Membership Booth
Administrative Supplies
• Signs Throughout the Vintage Area
• Red Barn and Other
Buildings
' Maintenance
•
And
More!
ThankYou Iems byLevel Name lisled:
I1ltage,
eb
&
aIRed
Ban
Don or
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eciation
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rtifica
te
Acess to
VoImt
eer
Center
Special
FORB
Badge
Two Passes to
V Vlunteer
Party
Special FORB
Cap
Breakfast at Tan
Pines
Cafe
Tn-Motor Ride
Certificate
Two Tidlels to
V
Picnic
Close
Auto
Park
ing
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Matty Laird's work for Roscoe Turner
Here are a few Laird factory photos
from
ig
Nick s scrapbook we thought
you d enjoy. To my knowledge, most
of
these photos have
not
been
pub
lished before.
Here is Roscoe Turner s
Wedell-Williams
undergo
ing repairs
in the
spring
J
M
REZICH
Nick Rezich took these
photos
Laporte St. to 59
th
and Cicero on the
during
the
assembly of Roscoe Turn
southwest
side
of
Chicago about
er s racing airplane . He and younger
three-fourths of a mile) to see the air
brother
Frank rode
t
heir
bicycles
plane s progress
and
to get a glimpse
from the family home at 6424 South of Turner himself.
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Lead
Photo:
Here are
Roscoe's two ships ready to
go on the
Muni ramp. It's
hard
to
see in the photo, but the
typical
Laird
finish shows
the
reflection of
the
magnificent bumped cowl
in the
top of
the
smooth plywood wing on the
Wedell-Williams.
After
placing
a disappointing third
in the
1937 Thompson with
his new Laird-Turner
racer, Roscoe went on to
win
back-to
back
victories
in
'38
and
'39
with the LTR-14. The
'39 race was won with a
speed
of 282.536 mph, and the prize money
wasn't too
bad
either;
Turner
won
a
check
for $16,000.
When he won
the
1934
Thompson,
the
check
was
for $4,500.
You
can really see the
short 26-foot wingspan
and
immense size of
the
550-hp Pratt &
Whitney Hornet
engine
in
this rear
view
of
the
Wedell.
From this angie,
you
can
see
the railroad
in the ba(:k21tound.
remembers
Roscoe
standing
on
a flatbed
rallrca
t
nd!lu .,evin2'
progress on his famous
racer. You can also
see the
Hamilton Standard propeller in this shot, as well as
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The
completed
airplane
on
the
ramp in
front of Air
Associates
at
Chicago
Municipal Airport.
Remember,
the airport wasn't
renamed Midway
until after
World War
II.
t was commonly
referred to
as
just Muni.
These photos were
taken
in
the
summer
of 1937.
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VnJe r th Wing,
n
th ~ h J e ~
~ t l n n f t ln
2 e € . ~ :
Calling
all Stearmans
and
Stinsons,
Pipers and Fairchilds,
Moths, Wacos,
and more
ARTICLE
AND PHOTOS
Y
SPARKY
BARNES
SARGENT
l
th
class roll
had
been
called for vintage aircraft
this past April,
the
list
would have
been a long
one, beginning with Aeroncaand end
ing at Waco. For example, members of
the Stinson family ranged from a Sta
tion Wagon and Gullwing to a Junior
and
Trimotor; Pipers were well repre
sented with the Cub, Vagabond, and
Pacer; and Cessna's lineage was fun to
the field, including the QCF,
YKC
YPF and SRE. And if Al Mooney had
been around to take a stroll down the
flightline,
he
just might have chuck
led upon seeing two of his tiny Mites
tied
down
shoulder-to-shoulder
with
two of Ben Howard's towering DGAs.
But let's not leave
the
human ele
ment out of this roll call, for as Air
master owner
and
pilot Bob Jenkins
Sf. summed
t
up, "I
don't know
on
these pages, but we'd like to share
just a few highlights from conversa
tions held
with
pilots and owners un
der the wing, and in the shade.
North
Carolina
and
Horida
Fairchilds
The early morning sun bathed Pat
McAlee's Ranger-powered Fairchild
24 in its warm glow, slowly evaporat
ing
the
beads of evening dew on its
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Eddie
Hoffman
of
Tarpon
Springs
Rorida with
his
1946
Warner-
lars
de
Jounge
of
Vero
Beach
Florida
with his
1941
de
Havilland
Ti-
powered Fairchild 24_ ger Moth.
Newly minted private pilot
Bob
Jenkins Jr with the Piper J-3 Cub Pat McAlee of
Belews
Creek North
Carolina
and his 1940 Ranger-
he
and
his father
restored.
instead of
29 years ago . McAlee de
parted from his home base at Shiloh
Airport, North Carolina, a few days
prior to the show, and his flight took
five
hours
and 45 minutes, plus
on
e
fuel stop, before
he
joined light traffic
in the pattern and landed on the field
on Sunday.
And there was another
Fairch
ild
on the flightline as
we
ll. VAA
member Eddie Hoffman of Tarpon
powered Fairchild
24.
f 9 n ~
f
ltnf9W
w h ~ h ~ ~ fhe
~ f J c $ f
enjf!JI1,abqe,
fhe 9 . ~ 7 q 9 . n e ~
in time), Th e Girlfriend (single-place
landplane),
and
The Seabird a biplane
flying boat) . This year, Hoffman flew
one of
them
, a 1980 amphibian called
the Mullet Skiff, to
Sun
n
Fun
in
addi
tion
to his Fairchild.
eorgia Cub
New
York Pacer and
Ohio Vagabond
Among the first to arrive for the
fly
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Dan
Vandenneer
of
Lake Ridge
Airpark,
North Carolina, journeyed
to
Tom
and
Elaine Huf
with
their
Bumblebee
, a 1944
Jacobs·powered
Sun n Fun with Ro
bert
Szego in Szego s 1973
Citabria
.
Cessna Bamboo Bomber.
Pilot
Doug
Cartledge
with owner
Dave
tina s 1948 Piper Vagabond,
which
Cart·
ledge fl
ew from
Oh
io
to
Lakeland
.
that Wednesday before the show.
Cartledge figured
he
had an extra
day or so, and it was
the
perfect op
portunity to satisfy his hankering to
fly all the way down to Key West. So
up and
away
he
went, after
camping
on the field one night, for his second
cross-country adventure in the little
airplane. His roundtrip flight took 10
hours of flying time, and he returned
to Lakeland in time to claim a front
row tie-down spot for the duration of
the show. With a happy grin, Cartledge
explained his attraction
to
the fly-in by
saying, Some people go to the ocean
to relax
and
watch the waves, but I
come here to relax by watching the air
planes coming and going.
Sun
'n
Fun 2006 was an especially
memorable occasion for Bob Jenkins
Jr. l t was more than the fact that he
earned his pilot certificate
only
three
months
prior to the fly-in and that it
was his first
long
solo cross-country
away from his
home
base in Rome,
Georgia. He was flying a Piper J-3 Cub
he
and
his father personally brought
with each other and didn't even have
to talk
much,
said Jenkins Jr. with
contagious enthusiasm, adding, '' It
was like each of us had another set
of hands, we were so synchronized.
Nine
months
later,
the
Cub was fin
ished and we were flying it. After I
earned my certificate, Dad suggested I
fly the Cub to Sun 'n Fun, and it was
a great flight down here.
Pilots with varying levels of experi
ence were easy to find along the flight
line, from the newly minted to those
who
have
been
flying for 40 years or
more. Wolfgang Buergel EAA 30479)
of East Aurora, New York, was enjoy
ing a cup of coffee early one morning
below the wing of his loyal 1950 Piper
PA-20 Pacer. He flew it
to
Lakeland
in only eight hours, with a little help
from a friendly tail wind. Buergel, a
longtime flight instructor specializing
in tailwheel training, describes himself
as an ordinary country pilot and a fair
weather
flier,
who started out building
model airplanes
as
a
young
boy. He
explained, The Pacer
is my
second
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Mike
Truschel of Nokesville Virginia
with his
recently acquired
1943 Steannan the
Yellow
Mistress.
golden 1941 Waco UPF·7 glows in the so t
light
of
an
early morning
sunrise
over Lakeland.
their flight. What a trip it was, said
Elaine, with good-natured laughter,
elaborating that, We hit a wall of wa
ter
in
Virginia
and had
to land. After
tWiddling
our thumbs
for two hours,
it cleared
and
we headed south again,
south in their 1944 Jacobs-powered
Cessna
T SO
Bamboo Bomber. Elaine
was working on her instrument rat
ing
at
the
time
(having since passed
her checkride), and her husband gave
her a few
instrument
lessons
during
but we had
to
stop
at
Zephyr Hills. t
was fogged in early
the
next morning,
so we hung around until it was VFR
and
then came
on in
to Lakeland.
Tom Huf calls
Sun 'n Fun the
harbinger of
spring. We leave
the
Northeast when
there's still snow
on
the
ground and
enjoy this
nice
warm
weather for
a week,
and
by
that
time the spring has sprung back
home. It's just a
wonderful
way to
start the spring, and we've put
eight
hours
of flying time on
the
airplane
coming down here. It's running like
a Swiss watch, and I
hope
i t stays
that way.
lorida
Tiger
Moth
Like so many pilots who camp on
the field, Lars de Jounge
VAA
mem
ber
of
Vero Beach, Florida, was also
camping
with
his airplane, a beloved
1941 de
Havilland
82A Tiger
Moth.
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Greg Herrick s 936
Stinson A ow-wing
trimotor
was one
of
the more unusual
airplanes
seen
t
Sun
n Fun.
Agood-looking,
perky
Porterfield
graced
the flightline
in
the Vintage area
for a few days.
It was built by the Morris car factory
in
England,
on
license from de Havil
land. This Tiger Moth was in the Eng
lish air force
at
first, and later it was
owned and
flown
by a Swedish fly
ing club before it
ended up
in private
hands
as an
aerobatic
trainer and
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Antique Wacos from
the
1930s in
similar
color schemes were
tied
down wingtip to
wingtip.
Jerry Wenger s
award·winning
Reserve
Grand Champion
1935
Waco
YPF
is
in
the foreground.
Sydney Womack
s 1941
Waco SRE was yet another fine Fred Cabanas taxis the award-winning Grand Champion Steannan
representative of
the Waco
family line.
Junior Speedmail into the vintage
field.
he
has
been
active
in aviation
for a and enjoyed the scenery and people flying
the
old Easy Riser type of
hang
number of years. This year he was
fly-
along
t
he
way especia
ll
y
the
warm glider and later transitioned to flying
ing his recently acquired 1943 Stea- and gregarious hospitality he experi- airplanes. He feels that the best part
rman biplane, which he aptly
named enced in
Waycross, Georgia.
An en
-
about being involved in general avia-
the
Yellow
Mistress
He had a leisurely thusiastic vintage airplane bu
ff
today,
tion
is
that the
aviation
community
eight hour flig h t from Virginia to Truschel whetted his appetite for be-
is
a world apart from everything else
Lakeland, spread out over two days, ing airborne back in the 1970s while
and it's great.
1931
Waco
QCF,
one of several Wac:os at
Sun
n Fun
this
JUr.
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This all-wood
Mullet Skiff
was flown into
Sun
n
Fun
by Fairchild owner
Eddie
Hoffman of
Florida,
whose father
designed and
built
the amphibi
a
n.
A
1951 (in
foreground) and a 1955
Mooney
Mite were on the flightline
together.
New ork itabria
Robert Szego
launched
from
south
of Albany, New York, in his trusty
1973 Citabria and stopped
by
Cha
pel Hill,
North
Carolina,
to
pick
up
his buddy Dan Vandermeer. From
that
point,
they arrived at Lakeland
in eight hours of flying time, plus
two stops for fuel
and an overnight
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T
urnbuckles are often taken
for granted, but they re a nec
essary part of
almost
every
aircraft. When used in the
control system, they enable control
of the flying surfaces. Sometimes they
hold things together when used
as
part
of a bracing wire. They re special pur
pose contrivances guaranteed to do the
job if used in the proper manner.
Coming through our shop recently
was an airplane that was next to im
maculate. It was a 60-year-old Wich
ita product
that
had been completely
redone a few years back with new ev
erything. One of the nicest, cleanest
owner-cherished airplanes you d ever
want to see.
The annual was routine, with the
usual oil leaks and exhaust muff stuff,
except for the one thing. The turn-
buckles were safetied, but not with
the
safety wire sizes the book calls
for.
A
mismatch of different sizes made i t
necessary to go back to the book (in
this
case
AC 43-13-1B & 2A combined)
to show the owner the proper
sizes
and
E.E. BUCK HIL ERT
urnbuckles
port
and
finally focused
on the
Trella
brothers pusher,
the
T-I06. t was a
pre-World War II design that became
a one-off airplane
due
to
the
war ef
fort shutting down general aviation at
the time.
Fred and Frank, the Trella brothers,
were pretty good designers. They had
created a little biplane that looked sim
ilar to a Hatz homebuilt and, in retro
spect, appears to look a bit like the later
Anderson-Greenwood AG-14 and the
little Cessna two-place pusher built in
the 1960s.
When I heard both of
the
Trella
airplanes were for sale, I thought this
would be the answer to my transporta
tion needs. The Bipe, with its 125 Ly-
coming engine, would make a good
glider tow tug, and the pusher, also with
a Lycoming and having comfy seat
ing and performance somewhat like or
maybe a little better than a Cessna 150,
would make a neat runabout.
Frank Trella, the surviving brother,
had a heart problem and could no lon
ger fly. That s the reason for the sale of
certificate, this was his last chance to
fly the
airplane.
After a couple of times around
the
pattern, he got out and gave it to me.
Now it was my
tum.
I had
noticed
a slight
undulation
when we were straight and level on the
downwind, but I didn t pay that much
attention. I figured it was the nature of
the beast.
I took off, left the pattern, climbed
up
to
about 2,000 feet above
the
ground, and began to feel things out.
Stalls were gentle,
control and
steep
turns were good, and everything was
going great. Then I stood it on its twin
tails and let the nose fall through; as
the speed picked up, an almost violent
undulation started. The pitot tube was
flopping around so violently, I thought
the wing was going to break. I was
bouncing
up
and down on the seat like
I was on the bumpiest dirt bike ride I d
ever had.
I was hanging onto the wheel and
had the throttle completely closed. The
airspeed was dying off,
but
the oscil
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driver, and puzzled
as
to what the prob
lem was. I was not quite coherent as I
tried to explain to Frank Trella what
had happened.
Well,
as
it turned out,
when
Frank
had lost his medical, he had disassem
bled the airplanes, took them home,
and stored them in
the
garage. With
the pending sale, he had trucked them
back to the field, assembled them, and
in the process, overlooked safetying
the elevator
control
cable turnbuck
les. They were buried
in the
twin tail
booms and were not as easily seen as
the cables on the biplane.
During our flights the elevator con
trol cable turnbuckles had come loose,
allowing the elevator to oscillate up
and down, slowly at first but more vi
olently as the cable's slack increased.
There couldn't have
been
more
than
three or four threads holding when we
looked. After just a few more oscilla
tions they probably would have come
completely apart.
Since that time, I have been a bit
more sensitive about turnbuckles, ca
b l e t e n ~ o n and safetying. I must ad
mit, though, that prior to that incident
I hadn't looked at AC 43-13-1B & 2A
for some time. I'm guilty of having
used whatever safety wire was avail
able when doing my own turnbuckles.
Now, after I reviewed 43-13, and show
ing the owner what the specs are, I'm
doing it right.
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Tall Pines
cafe
Hungry?
Have
we
got a
breakfast
for
you
On the
south
end of the field
you11
find the only full breakfast
menu available.
Staffed by VAA volunteers, the VAA
Tall
Pines
cate
is
just what the pilot
ordered
On
this
year's
menu:
Pancakes
Doughnuts
Sausage
Juice
Scrambled Eggs
Milk
pplesauce
Coffee
Biscuits
a. Gravy
Soft Drinks
Cereal
Bottled
Water
Breakfast
Combo Bars
(Ham, Egg, Cheese)
FAA FSS Preflight Weather Briefing
Breakfast and
a
briefing
can
be yours. After enjoying
a tasty
breakfast
at
VMs
Tall
Pines
cate, let the
experienced
flight
service station personnel from
the
Green
Bay
Au
tomated
Right
Service Station give
you a preflight weather briefing.
The AFSS folks
will be on hand during the entire day. Stop
by
their
trailer, located
just
north of the Tall
Pines cate.
Vintage Volunteers
Volunteers
make it
happen
e
a participant
in
EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh instead
of a spectator.
Plan
to volunteer
in
the
VAA
division and become a part of our 400
strong
Vintage
family.
Registration
is
held
in
the
Vintage volunteer booth, located in
front of
the Vintage
Red
Bam.
After
registering,
a
souvenir name tag
will
be made
for
you. Your
fellow
volunteers
will
know who you are, and you can wear it proudly.
Our volunteers
receive
and park airplanes,
handle
crowd control,
help
in the Red
Bam
Store,
cook
breakfast at
the
Tall Pines
cafe, assist the photographers,
and
do
other jobs
on
our
end
of the
field. They
work
around
beautifully
restored
aircraft and
assist
the pilots and other
guests.
All
our flightline
volunteers
are given
a brief
and
entertaining training
session be-
fore working. You may
do
a shift of three or four
hours,
or
you may choose
to work
more
or
less. Crowd
control
gives you
the
very
best
seat
for the daily air
show. Vol
unteering is not all work: we
have
several
social
gatherings, a place for volunteers to
relax and have
a light
meal,
and
the
most fun
of
any
group
on
the
field.
We11
see
you
at
the Vintage volunteer booth
Join VAA Today
Remember when
flying
was
a great
adventure?
It still
is
If you enjoy the
airplanes
of yesteryear,
you should be
a
member
of
EAXs
Vin
VAA
Workshop Tent
Ever wonder about
shaping metal using
a
mallet or an English wheel? How about try
ing your hand
at
fabric
covering?
These skills
and many
others are demonstrated every day
at the VAA Workshop tent,
located
just
south
of the VAA Red Barn. Experienced instructors
will
not on ly
guide
you through the
process,
but
also
hand
you
the mallet and
let you
try
it yourself. Then you can
smooth it
out on
the English wheel. Or
if
you
'd
like
to try
fab
ric
work,
you can learn
to neatly attach and
shrink
modern
synthetic fabrics to a
real
air
frame
under restoration
by
VAA volunteers.
Go
ahead--9i
ve
it a try
Getting Your Airplane Judged
I f you'd like to have your
ai
rplane
judged,
be sure to register it at the Aircraft
Registra
ti
on Building,
located along
Wi
ttman Road
just
east
of
Antique Parking. The Vintage
Aircraft
Association contributes substantially to the
awards, and all judges are VAA volunteers. To
win an award you must be
a VAA
mem-
ber. You can
sign up
for the VAA at the r
eg
istration building or at the
membership
booth
located
just
outside
of the
VAA Red Barn.
The VAA
aircraft judging
awards
will
be
presented
during the EAA
awards
presenta
tion in the Theater in the
Woods
on Saturday
evening.
VAA Judging Categories
Antique
An aircraft
constructed
by
the or
i
gina
l
manufacture
r, or i
ts licensee
, on or
before
August 31, 1945,
with
the exception
of cer
ta in
pre-World War
II aircraft models that
had
only
a
small postwar production. Examples:
Beechcraft Staggerwing, Fairchild
24,
and
Monocoupe .
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Scott
White
Orient, OH
•
Owner White
ero
Ltd
. Restorations
• f
Oshkosh
ntique
Grand
Champ
and
Reserve Grand Champ
• National
Stearman
Fly in
Best rmy Restoration
and
Best
Navy
Restoration
• Stearman Restorers
'
ssociat
i
on
President's
Award
When projects are about to leave, I always recommend a call
to
AUA,
even if they
already
have insurance.
One
customer
had
three Stearmans, a Cessna
195, and
a Cessna
172. He
literally
saved hundreds
of
dollars and received better coverage when
he switched to
AUA."
- Scott White
- AUA
CUSTOMERS
ND PILOrs
-
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BY DOUG STEWART
Who's
n charge
here?
Here
is
a question
many
pilots have difficulty answer
pacity for
the
flight or for a
portion
of
the
flight by prior
ing: Is there ever a time
when
a pilot with
only
a
student
arrangement
pilot certificate can act
as
the pilot-in-command PIC) of a
I make i t
a pO int, on every practical test I conduct, to
flight
when
there are passengers
on
board
the
aircraft?
ensure the
applicant understands
this regulation. The
Many will answer
that
a student pilot can
ct
as the pi
regulation even applies
when
there might be
another
pas
lot-in-command only during solo
senger on board, such as an FAA
flight,
but that
is
only partially cor-
inspector or perhaps
a
flight in
rect. Some will answer that
the
stu
structor
who is sitting in the back
dent
pilot
might be able to log all
seat
to
observe the practical test.
Now, you might
the flight time during which he
is
Now, you might be wonder
the
sole
manipulator
of
the con
ing, Why
is
Stewart explaining
trols,
including time
when
an
in
all
of
this?
How
does
this apply
e
wondering,
structor
is on
board the aircraft, as
to me? I
have
held my private (or
PIC
time,
but the
instructor would
higher)
pilot
certificate for years,
Why is Stewart
be the
pilot acting
as
the
pilot-in
and the vast majority of
the
read
command. Again, this
would
be
ers of
Vinta
ge
irplane
are not stu
only partially correct.
dent pilots.
xplaining
all
of
There are others
who might
add
I t doesn't apply
if
you're not
that
a student pilot could be
the
a
student
pilot,
but
it
does
raise
this? How does it
ole
manipulator
of
the
controls the
issue of
understanding the
dif
with
a passenger
on board who
is
ference
between being the acting
not a flight instructor, but who is
pilot-in-command
and logging pi
apply to me?
a
certificated, rated, and current
lot-in-command time and, further,
pilot (with a current medical cer- of determining who is really the
tificate)i however,
the
passenger, pilot with the final
authority and
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time you are receiving dual instruction
to
gain the tail
wheel endorsement as pilot-in-command time, with the
exception of time when
the
instructor
is
the
manipulator
of
the
controls demonstrating what needs to be done.
The same rule would apply for those rated pilots seek
ing
to obtain their complex
or
high-performance
en
dorsements, as well as pilots receiving
dual
instruction
toward their instrument rating. The pilot may
log
all of
the
time
when he is
the sole
manipulator
of
the
controls
as
PIC time.
Now let's get back
to the student pilot for a
moment
.
For
a student pilot to be able
to
log flight time as PIC,
he
has to:
1)
be the sole occupant of the aircraft,
2)
have a
current (within the past 90 days) solo endorsement for
make and model of aircraft,
and 3)
be undergoing training
for a pilot certificate or rating.
You might, at this pOint, be asking yourself, Well,
what about the
instructor? When
can the instructor
log
PIC time? The answer to this is
quite
simple. As stated
in CFR 61.S1(e)(3), a flight instructor may log as pilot
in-command time
all flight
time
while acting as
an
au
thorized
instructor. Thus
it would be possible for
an
instrument instructor CFII) to
log
the flight time accrued
while conducting instrument training to a pilot in a mul
tiengine aircraft as PIC time, even
though
the flight in
structor was not a multiengine instructor (MEl). (Please
note,
though,
that the
instructor
would need
to have
a
multiengine rating.)
This leads to the question of how a pilot should log the
time he spends as a safety pilot for
someone who
wants
to
log some
simulated
(hood) instrument flight. The
answer, found in CFR 61.S1(f)(2),
is
that the safety pilot
can log this time
as
second-in-command
SIC)
time if he
holds the
appropriate
certificate for category and class.
Furthermore, the safety pilot must be instrument-rated if
the flight requires an instrument rating.
So
far we have been discussing
the
issue of
logging
PIC
time,
but
what about cting as pilot-in-command? Please
note
there
is
a big difference between the two. Let's also
note the regulations
do
not use
the
words be or is
when referring
to pilot-in-command. To
begin with ,
to
ct as PIC the
pilot must have
the
appropriate certificate
a commercial or airline transport pilot certificate? What
if one of
the
pilots
is
a CFI but not acting as an instruc
tor for
the flight? This question should
be answered
prior to the start of the flight (it
is
possible the determi
nation could change during the flight as well), for the
pilot who
is
determined
to be
the
pilot-in-command
is,
according
to
CFR 1.1, the
person
who:
1)
Has final au
thority and responsibility for the operation and safety
of the flight. This is important
not only
from a regula
tory point
of view,
but
also, and
perhaps
even more so,
for insurance purposes.
Unfortunately,
the
jury's still
out on this
literally.
In discussions
with FAA
personnel and insurance under
writers, I have found it really boils down to what the jury
decides. It might be the highest-rated pilot in
the
aircraft.
It
might
be
the
pilot in
the
left seat. Or it might be (for
give my cynicism here) the pilot with
the
deepest pockets.
This
is
why
I strongly suggest
that
if you are going
to
be
flying in
the
same airplane
with
other pilots, you should
make no assumptions as to which pilot will be cting as
pilot-in-command.
So
we have seen that
the
regulations are rather succinct
in defining
the
who, how, and when of logging PIC time.
They are a little more vague
when
it comes to
cting as
pi
lot-in-command. But regardless of whether you are
logging
as or cting as, may your flight be blessed with blue skies
and
tail winds.
. . . . . . .
BUTYRATE
SYSTEM
fO fI
-----
VINT GE
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Current Editor}s Note: Th
is
issue of
Vintage Air
pl
an
e
contains one of a se ries of
nine
articles pertaining to
th
e res
toration of a nt ique and classic airplanes. Directors of the then-n
amed
Antiqu
e/C
lassic Division of EAA originally
wrote them in
th
e mid-1
980s}
but they are still relevant for toda
s
vintage aircraft ent
hu
siasts. The la te Ar t Morgan}
a longtime vo
lunt
eer
ch
airman of the A C Parking
Comm
ittee} wrote th is article. Our
me
mbers have years of expe
rien
ce
a
nd
a t
re
me
nd
ous
amount
of talent; h
owever} ifs li
kely everyone will learn something new from each
articl
e
Please let us hear from you; write
to
H.G. Fra ut schy} Editor}
Vintage
Airp
lan }
P O Box 3086}Osh
kosh}WI 54903-3086} or e-
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in tageAircra t@e
aa
or
g. -HGF
So you
finally
did
it. After years
of
payin} for
the
home} puttin}
the
little
nippers through
schooC
and
makin} sure your life mate is taken
care
oC
you did it.
You bought
your
dream airplane.
You
made the decision to do it some
time ago . Now
with
the encourage
ment of your family
and the
help of
the local
EAA
chapter} and friends old
and
new}
you}ve
found
it. Sure you
paid more for it
than
you wanted
to}
Family Involvement
BY
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EAA
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Then you feel it. Just a little at
first .
You
glance over
and there
they
Sit}
your heir
apparent and
sibling}
and the one who promised to love}
honor}
and overlook occasional
bouts of stupidity. Theire
not
try
ing
to}
but by gum they are. They}re
staring at you with puppy dog eyes
that
are saying}
1I h}
great loved
one}
what about us} your devout family?
What shall
we}
the great unwashed} do
while thee bury thyself and not a small
That airplane
you
just bought
could be
on
of
the greatest ways
you will ever
your
life for
the next
few years?
Are
we
to
be
only
makers of coffee} run
ners of
errands}
or worse
yet}
the
third hand
when needed? Are we
to
be relegated
to the
role
of assuring
the
neighbors most
of whom are
thinking
about selling before prop
erty
values start
to nose
dive that}
no}
we
have not opened
a home for
lunatics. Is this
to
be our fate?JJ
Dear friend} you may not know
it}
but
you stand
on
the threshold of tri
umph
or tragedy.
Opportunities
present themselves
in strange
ways. That airplane
you
just bought could be one of
the
great
est ways you will ever have of pulling
your family closer together.
Con
versely} it
can
drive
them
apart. res
up to
you. But
how}
you
ask}
do I in
volve my family? What
can
they do?
Or for
that
matter}
what can
I do?
Well}
old saw} purveyor of bent bolts
and
corrosion}
JIm
glad you asked.
JIll
tell you. I don}t know.
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do, you want to be part of,
and what
yo u do, they want to be part of.
I once read a story where a fellow
was buildin' a
Thorp
T-18,
and
his
grandmother, bless her heart, bucked
every rivet.
We
have all heard stories
where the life mate did the upholstery
or helped with the covering. The kids
became involved in rib making, for
mer cutting, welding, etc.
We all mar
vel at how lucky that individual is.
There's no luck involved; the members
of the family were invited to join in.
In my own case, my wife had lit
tle interest in things mechanical. She
would help when needed, (it is
always
wanted) and at the end of the job she
would be very proud of what she had
done.
At
the end of the project
a
Lus-
combe), I think the airplane was more
hers than mine. To this day, heaven
help the unqualified
person
who
touches or bad mouths
Go
Whizz Kate
All 5 feet 2 inches and 115 pounds of
my wife becomes meaner
than
a Ma
rine drill instructor, and she will walk
away with a piece of that person's ear
dangling loosely from
the
corner of
her mouth. All because I asked her to
become involved.
Now
that
we are flying
our time
machine, my wife finds that although
she does not want
to learn
to fly,
she loves to navigate. So
whenever
we plan any kind of trip, she grabs
the sectionals, plots our course,
and
has been telling me where to go ever
since. (Some blessings are more hid
den than others.)
Now, this isn't unusual.
If
you look
around your local airport at all the
people who have restored or are re
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The Trella T
-I06
A
thoroughly modern pusher
fr
om
9
ROBERT F P ULEY
Buck s mention
of
the Trella pusher in his column this month sent
us
scurrying to the M files for
more on
the sharp-looking
airplane built after Wor ld War II. I d seen
it
sometime in
the
pas t, perhaps white perusing
www.AeroFiles.coill,
and
have
al
wa
ys li
k
ed
the ai1plane s modern looks. It s pretty obv ious from the configuration of the T-106 that Frank
Trella
was influenced
by the
NACA
r
eports
written by
Fred
Weick
after the wind-tunnel and flight testing
of
Weick s
W-
1.
Buck s bad
experience, due to
a maintenance
error
and not through any fault of the
design
of the airp lane, doesn t diminish
my interest in
the
Trella, and while it didn t make it
into
production,
it
was
intended to do so. Here s a bit more on
the
airplane,
gleaned
from
a
1961
article by longtime
VM
and EAA member Robert F Pauley. Robert
wrote
about the
Trell
a
in
the January
1961 issue ofEAA
Sport Aviation. This is
a slightly abridged version of that article,
along
with
his
terrific drawing of
the
air-
plane and a
few
extra photos
we
found
in our
files.-H.G. Frautschy
The Trella Homebuilt
At a
recent meeting of
De
troit Chapter 13 [during the
year
1960]
the
members were
privileged to hear a talk given
by Frank Trella in
which he
de
scribed his series of homebuilt
airplanes. Frank,
with
the
help
of his brothers Fred, George,
Henry,
and
Joe, has built seven
original designs
dating
back to
1924. This series
of homebuilt
aircraft culminated with the
Trella T-106 pusher, Frank s con
cept of
the ideal
configuration
for a two-place
light
airplane.
Designed
and
built
more than
12 years ago,
the
T-106 will still
outperform
many
of today s
f c
tory jobs and has proven to be a
rugged
and
trouble-free airplane.
Frank
studied
aeronau
tical
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was, however, used for taxiing about ance and construction to the T-I01,
working
for various aircraft manu
facturers in the Detroit area, includ
ing Stinson and Buhl, while brothers
Fred
and
George
continued
with
the
homebuilt projects. The next plane in
the
series was
the
T-103, which Frank
designed in 1930
and
which George
built in nine months. This again was
a two-place open-cockpit
biplane
powered by a
90-hp
Lambert radial
engine, and it too proved to be an ex
cellent flier.
The T-I04 that followed
in
1932
was identical to
the
previous biplane
except for the adaptation of
minor
modifications such as low-pressure
tires. Unhappily,
the
T-I04lasted only
a
few
months for it was destroyed in
a flat spin during final stages of flight
test approval. The test pilot
bailed
out although some observers felt a
recovery could have been made. This
marked
the
end of
the
biplane era for
the five brothers, since the next project
was to be a Lambert 90-powered, two
place side-by-side, high-wing mono
plane,
the
Trella T-I0S. Construction
had
begun
on the
new ship
in
1935,
but unfortunately it was never com
pleted due
to
money problems.
It
was
eventually dismantled .
By this time Frank
had
left Detroit
for Troy, Ohio where he was em
ployed by Waco as
the
chief drafts
man. During the war years Frank was
TRELLA T l06
DIMENSIONS
Wingspan: 34 feet
Length: 21
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A
nice view
of the Trella T-I06 as it
rests
on the grass.
The
color
scheme
was
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trim.
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An illustration
by Huuard of
the
T-I07. It was to
be
a five-place twin
engine
pusher.
in charge of the Waco CG-4A and
CG-IS glider programs, but his spare
time was devoted to thoughts on a
new design. This later materialized as
the Trella T-I06 twin-
boom
pusher.
Starting
in the
late '30s Frank had
spent much time sketching
and
read
ing
NACA
reports
in
an attempt
to
arr ive
at
the ideal arrangement for a
two-place private plane. The solution
evolved as an all-metal, high-wing,
side-by-side, twin-boom pusher pow
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Specifications for
the
Trella T-l06
Serial
No
T·21
Two-seat high-wing cabin monoplane
with pusher engine.
WINGS: All metal
two spar struc-
ture with 24ST skin . Clark Y
airfoil.
Streamlined V-lift struts.
FUSELAGE:
All-metal central-keel struc
ture covered with 24ST skin. Side-by
side seats with dual wheel controls.
tail booms would prevent spectators
from wandering into the prop and
thereby served as a safety feature.
When the war ended Frank left
Waco and returned to Detroit,
anx
ious
to
start
cutting
metal on the new
project. He
and
his brothers started
work
in 1946 in a 22-by-28-foot
three-car garage. Complete drawings
of all parts were made, and a pre
liminary stress analysis was done on
all critical items. In addition , sam
The cabin of the
Tr
ella
T-l06
N45OC
ber of that year. Test pilot Paul Holst
was full of praise for the new product.
Aside from the
minor
changes in
the
nose gear
and
enlarging
the
rudders,
no other problems were encountered.
Because of the rear
engine
location,
overheating
problems were antici
pated, but
none
occurred. And despite
the fact that
no
special cooling baffles
were incorporated in the design, cylin
der head temperatures never exceeded
190°C
That's
because an oil cooler
was used to keep down oil tempera
tures. For the flight tests a spin chute
was
added to
the tail, and six spins
were made in
both
directions, but no
difficulties were apparent. The plane
has since accumulated more than 300
hours
and
can be seen regularly flying
from McKinley Airport, headquarters
for the Detroit chapter of EAA
Following the
completion
of
the
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2
VAA
Elections/Annual
Meeting
ing
EAA
AirVenture
Oshkosh 2006.
In the center spread of this issue Notice is hereby
given
that an an
you'll find candidate biographies
nual
business
meeting
of the
mem
and a ballot for this year's
VAA
elec
bers
of
the
EAA
Vintage Aircraft
tions
, which
w ll
be ratified at the Association will
be
held on Sunday,
annual
business
meeting
held dur-
July 30, 2006, at 9:30 a.m. COT
in
Happy
50th, C-172
Ask
100
pilots if they've flown a Cessna 172 Skyhawk. The over
whelming majority will say they have, and a good chunk of those might
have learned how
to
fly
in
a C-172.
EAA
will recognize the
50th
anniversary of the stalwart Cessna
172
with a series
of
events and displays throughout
the
week. A special
parking
lot
in the North 40 is being reserved for up
to
500 Cessnas.
The first 172 and the latest Skyhawk wi ll be parked together on Aero
Shell Square, showing how the model has changed over the years.
On
the Saturday before AirVenture (July 22), a group
of 50
Cessna
172s and 182s is expected
to take
part in
the
first Cessnas
to
Osh
kosh (c20) group flight in honor of the milestone. (Pilots who wish to
join c20 shou ld visit www.c20.us for details.
the
tent next
to the
VAA Red Barn
during the
54th
annual
convention
of the Experimental Aircraft Asso
ciation Inc .
Wittman
Regional Air
port, Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Notice
s
hereby further given that the annual
election
of officers and directors of
the EAA Vintage Aircraft Associa
tion
will
be conducted
by ballot
dis
tributed to
the members along with
this June issue
of
Vintage Airplane.
Said ballot must be
returned
prop
erly marked to the Ballot Tally Com
mittee, Vintage Aircraft Association,
P.O. Box 3086, Oshkosh, WI 54903
3086, and received no later than July
20, 2006. The
Nominating Commit
tee submits the
following
list
of
can
didates: for President, Geoff Robison;
for Secretary, Steve Nesse; for direc-
tors (eight total), Steve Bender, John
Berndt, Dave Clark, Espie
IiButch
Joyce, Steve Krog, Jeannie
Lehman
Hill, Bob Lumley, Dean Richardson.
New
Member
Benefit:
EAA
Aircraft
Financing Program
EAA
members taking to new
aircraft financing program
EAAers are showing a lot of inter
est in
the new
EAA
Aircraft
Financ
ing
Program member
benefit
that
was
launched at the Sun
'n
Fun Fly
In at Lakeland, Florida, in April. EAA
and partner AirFleet Capital Inc. offer
EAAers the most comprehensive air
craft-loan program in the industry.
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helicopters as well as light-sport
aircraft . To learn more, call AirFleet
Capital at 866-808-6040 or visit
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Copperstate
Hopes
to Cool ff
With
Date
Change
In an
effort
to provide relief
from the sweltering desert heat, or
ganizers of
the 34th annual
Cop
perstate Regional EAA Fly-In have
moved their
event
back from Octo
ber 12-15
to October
26-29
at
Casa
Grande
Municipal
Airport (CGZ).
The date shift should reduce the av
erage high temperature
from
92°F
to 80°F on average. Cooler temps,
plus
the usual
severe
clear skies,
should make for perfect weather at
the Southwest's premier aviation
event.
Those
flying to Copperstate will
also have a chance to fly in front
of the crowd. Copperstate invites
builders, restorers ,
manufacturers,
and pilots
to
show off their cre
ations during
dedicated airtime
seg
ments.
People come to Copperstate
to see airplanes-and
while
giv
ing them close-up scrutiny on
the
ground scratches one itch, seeing
and hearing
them
in flight adds a
totally different
dimension
to the
experience,
said Fly-In
Chairman
Bob Hasson.
That's
the
experience
Copperstate will give you at this
year's event-fly-in pilots won't be
just attending
the show, they'll be
part of it.
Casa Grande
Municipal Airport
(CGZ) is
ideally
located
midway
between
Phoenix and Tucson, Ari
zona
,
just
a few
miles west
of
In
terstate 10. For more information,
visit www copperstate org
EAA Ford Tri-Motor on Tour
EAA s 1929 Ford Tri-Motor takes to
the
skies in late
June and
early July
for a tour to several cities, starting in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on June 9
and concluding at Port Clinton, Ohio, on July 4.
Nicknamed the Tin Goose because of its corrugated
metal
skin, EAA
meticulously restored the airplane in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Af-
ter being displayed in the then-new EAA museum in Oshkosh, it has been
EAA AirVenture
NOTAM
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AirVen-
ture Oshkosh
2006 Notice
To
Airmen (NO
TAM) booklets
are
hot
off
the
press and ready
to
be mailed
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who plan to
fly
to
The World's Greatest Aviation
Celebration
on
July
24-30. The
Oshkosh NOTAM is also available
in easy-to-print PDF document form
on
the AirVenture website at
www
aiTventure org Those who have al
ready placed their booklet orders can
expect
to
receive
their
copies soon,
while others
can
call EAA Member
ship Services at 800-564-6322
and
order a free copy today.
The 32-page
printed
NOTAM,
which is in effect July 22-31, outlines
procedures for the many types of air
craft
that
fly
to Oshkosh for
the
event,
as well as aircraft that land at nearby
airports.
It
was designed by EAA and
the FAA to assist pilots in prepara
tions for their AirVenture flights.
I f
you plan to fly to
EAA
AirVenture this
year,
the NOTAM is
required reading
before making your trip, so become
familiar
with
Oshkosh's
unique
ar
rival
and
departure procedures.
Changes from the 2005 version
include the following:
A new additional
VFR
holding pat
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be used when
the
pilot
is
on site
and
standing next to the heater.
Also, one should inspect the barriers
between one s own airplane and
the
adjoining
bay to
see if they are
properly
sealed off.
Unfortunately,
in the case of my Stinson, the
three
center bays were
open to
each
other
so the fire got everything.
The hangar my Stinson
is
in now
is
a new set of T-hangars, all partitioned
off from
the
others at William Piper
Memorial Airport. The only drawback
is
the
bifold doors. In
the
event of a
fire,
the first thing the firemen would
do is to cut the power, thereby sealing
all the airplanes in their hangars. The
hand
crank furnished with each door
would be useless,
as
i t would take a
stepladder
and
about an hour's labor
to crank
the
door
open
by
hand.
Therefore, vigilance
is
the
best policy.
Keep
an eye
on what is
in adjoining
hangars,
and
keep
up
on
your
own
housekeeping. I am enclosing a photo
of my Stinson as it looks now after the
second restoration, which took six and
a half years. I am sorry to read that
Mr
.
Scott is not going to restore his airplane,
and I hope someone else picks up the
balL
It was
a beautiful piece of history.
Very
truly yours,
Kerry A.
Uhler
Howard, Pennsylvania
CALL
OR VAA HALL OF FAME NOMINATIONS
Nominate your favorite aviator for
the EAA
Vintage Aircraft Association
Hall of Fame. A huge
honor
could be bestowed
upon
that man
or woman
working next
to
you on your airplane, sitting next
to
you in
the
Chapter
meeting, or walking next to you
at EAA
AirVenture Oshkosh. Think
about
the
people
in
your circle of aviation friends, that mechaniC,
that
photographer, that pilot
who
has shared innumerable tips with you
and
with
many
others. They could be
the
next
VAA
Hall of Fame
inductees-but
only if they are nominated.
The person you nominate can be a citizen of any country and may be
living or deceased,
and
his or her involvement in vintage aviation must have
occurred between 1950
and
the present day. His or her contribution could
be in
the
areas of flying; design; mechanical or aerodynamic developments;
administration; writing; some other vital, relevant field; or any combination
of fields
that
support aviation. The person you nominate must be or have
been a member of
the
Vintage Aircraft Association,
and
preference is given
to those whose actions have contributed
to
the
VAA
in some
way,
perhaps
as
a volunteer; a writer; a photographer; or a pilot sharing stories, preserving
aviation history,
and
encouraging new pilots
and
enthusiasts.
To
nominate someone
is easy.
It just takes a little time and a little
reminiscing
on
your part.
• Think of a person,
think
of his or her contributions.
• Write those contributions in
the
various categories of
the
form.
• Write a simple letter highlighting these attributes and contributions. Make
copies of newspaper or magazine articles
that
may substantiate your
view.
• If you can, have another person complete a form or write a letter about this
person, confirming why
the
person
is
a good candidate for induction.
• Mail the form to:
VAA
Hall of Fame
H.G. Frautschy
PO
Box
3086
Oshkosh
WI
54903-3086
REMEMBER
,
YOUR
"
CON
TEMPORA
RY" MAY BE
A
CANDIDATE-
NOMINATE SOM EONE TODAY!
Call the
VAA
office for a form (920-426-6110), find it
at
www.vintageaircra{t
arg
or
on
your own sheet of paper, simply include the following information:
• Date submitted.
• Name of person nominated.
• Address and
phone
of nominee.
• Date of birth of nominee.
If
deceased, date of death.
• Name
and
relationship of nominee's closest living relative.
• Address
and phone
of nominee's closest living relative.
• E-mail address of nominee
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sured
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will continue to
an Barnstormers
Tour. Be sure to
check out these barnstormers and
their aircraft on the tour's website at
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As
I have mentioned before in these
pages, many of the members greatly
enjoyed the demonstrations of proper
technique in propping an airplane at
last year's event, I am pleased to in
support
all
of the
special
venues in
our area, many of which would sim
ply
not
be possible without such sup
port.
All
of
you
fine folks are
truly
appreciated by all of us
at
VAA, For
those of you
who
attend, please
pat
these supporters
on
the back
and
of
fer your sincere thanks when you see
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ing should have
been replaced two
years ago,
or maybe
that
the
place
needs painting. So what So what, you
say?
Well,
I'll tell you, We have an air
plane, We go to breakfast fly-ins, here
and there (100 to 500 miles away),
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