Vintage Airplane - Mar 1975

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Photo by Ted Kaston)

THEPRESIDENT'SPAGE

By E E Buck HilbertPresident, Antique-Classic Division

In cooperation with our EAA Aerobatic Division, I recently hosted a meeting of FAA, lACand ourselves. The topic of the meeting was Unsatisfactory Reports on aircraft, engines andequipment. These URs go under several titles . The FAA would like to call them Service Difficulties, the lAC calls them Malfunction and Defects. Whatever they are called they mean something doesn't hold up - or broke - or just doesn't work right.FAA wanted data compilation and then dissemination of the information as the computerdetected any trends . Before I go further, the lAC Division is far ahead of FAA on this. Theyhave a Malfunction and Defect Committee and publish a monthly report in their magazine an up-to-date, factual alert of any defect or malfunction peculiar to the aerobatic aircraft within their group. lAC living right up to their dedication to promote sport aerobatics with safety.I feel they are a great group of forward looking people, and wide awake.

The ideas of FAA to maintain a computer data bank and detect trends is admirable, but with


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VOLUME 3 NUMBER 3 MARCH 1975T BLE OF CONTENTS

Frank Clarke, Movie Stunt Pilot . Madeleine Kimotek . .. . . . . . .. . .. .. . .. . .. 4The Uptown Swallow Buck Hilbert . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . .. .. .. . . . 11Sunshine At Syracuse Robert Elliott . .. . .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . .. . 13Reminiscing With Big Nick . . . Nick Rezich .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . .. . . . . . . .. . ... 15Antique Treasure unting J. R. Nielander, Jr . . .. .. .. .. .. . .. . 19ON THE COVER Hells Angels Gotha BACK COVER Mercury Field. Los AngelesCourtesy Madeleine Kimotek in 1920. Jim Barton Collection

EDITORIAL STAFFPublisher - Paul H. Poberezny Ed itor - Jack CoxAssistant Ed itor - Gene Chase Assistant Editor - Golda Cox

ANTIQUE AND CLASSIC DIVISION OFFICERS


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from Pasa Robl es , but ca me to the movie ca pital in the1920's. Because he co uld be counted on to prov ide a uthentic , heart-s topping s tunts that were just what the directorordered , he bega n to accru e a list of screen credi ts thateventua lly led to his being chosen as the sinister BaronVo n Ri chter in Hell s Angels and as Chief Pilot in chargeof the air sequences. (In 1920, in the film , Stranger ThanFiction , which starred Katherine McDonald, Fra nk fl ew aJenny off a dow ntow n Los Angeles office building. Hewas know n, too, fo r his plane-to- plane changes sa ns arope ladde r. In the 1927 Pa the Serial, Eagle of the ight ,he landed a nd took off on a moving passenge r train. ButHell s Angels was his grea tes t assignm ent. )Jim Bar ton left me many ph otograph s taken during themaking of Hell s Angels and I h ave include d so me of themhere in the hopes that the members will recognize th em.During the Second World War, Frank Clarke servedwith the Ce lluloid Commandos , a mo tion p ictu re group ,as he was now considered too old to be a fighter pilo taturally, his firs t cho ice had been the Flying Tige rs. Iknow he wo uld have bee n a good one On June 11, 1948,he was kill ed in a BT -15 in a trag ic cras h w hich occurredat Isabella Ca nyon, Californi a Jim was on the scene soonafterward and he erec ted a cross made from the twis tedpropeller blades. The next time yo u see one of th e grea told stun t-flying epics, please thin k of the man behmd thegoggles - Frank Cl arke - I know I will.Beca use I think Fra nk Clarke's ow n words are ce rtainl y more evoca tive than mine of tha t era I have recopied some magazine articles he wro te for Liberty magazine in 1931. I know you' ll. enj oy them as I did.

I'd like to close with a poem written about Frank afterhis death by a friend - Mr. Dean Sp ence r:" SPOOKS" CLARKE

Midst annals of avia tion fam eSurpass ing a ll living and deadImmortalized Spooks on e sy llable nameEternally blazed at th e head .Ha ter of gravi ty - Master of WingsNonpareil on the flyArtist of s tick - he tenaciously clingsto his' loved Shangri-La" of the sky.Idol of ki wis - God of all flye rsKing of stunt pilots un sun gLay men would swear that we we re damn liarsRelating the things he has done.To know is to love him . I'm no exceptionFor I have been favored and blessedWith friend ship of his with out bond of conve n_ionTh e kind between men - and the bes tA toas t to you, birdm an . It' s fa tes ' ow n decisionTo we r your boo ts - when you departYou' re not only hi story - By Go d, yo u 're tra ditionTo all aviation - Spooks Clarke

(Jim Barton Collection)An S.E. 5 used for movie work . By 927 these aircraft were considered to be expendable junk andusually had a very short life with the movie studio crews.


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(Jim Barton Collection)riefing of air crews before another day of filming Hell 's Angels .

(Jim Barton Collection)Caddo Field in the San Fernando Valley - early 1928. Most of the aircraft are Thomas Morse Scoutsplus an S.E. 5


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He started filming the preliminary sequences at thestudio, and after a few weeks had a disagreement withthe director, who quit. Hughes then stepped in and announced that he would direct the picture himself.

Meanwhile he purchased the play, The Racket, andfilmed it, starring Thomas Meighan, with Lewis Milestone directing. t was voted one of the ten best picturesof the year and was a big money-maker. He also producedanother Meighan picture - The Mating Call.

Hughes originally prepared to film the air sequencesof Hell's Angels, which occupy half of the picture, at anair field near Inglewood. He built a mess hall and barracksin preparation for his fleet of planes, etc. Later, however,he decided that cloud conditions would be better in theSan Fernando Valley, so he leased what had been an alfalfa field there and turned it into an air field, completelyequipped with hangars, a mechanical department, andlights for night flying. He called it Caddo Field, after thecorporate name of the company.

He then began to assemble a fleet of planes of wartimevintage. He insisted on the utmost possible accuracy indetail. This was no easy task, for by 1927 a good part ofthose old wartime planes had disappeared. A large partof those to be found were in such condition that they werebeyond hope of repair.

One of the first planes he bought was a Sikorsky bomber, five or six years old. t had a wing spread of eightyfour feet, and when flown out from the east by RoscoeTurner it was the largest plane that had ever been seenon the Pacific coast. This was the nearest replica availableof a Gotha bomber of the type used in the war.The story of Hell's Angels revolved around two brothers in the flying corps, and Ben Lyon and James Hall wereengaged for the roles .

t was at about this time that I joined the company andbecame chief pilot on the picture. Frank Tomick was engaged to fly the No. 1 camera ship throughout the production.

fact that he was not only a stunt man in the air, but alsoin automobiles. He was once a race driver, and specialized in smashing up automobiles and turning them overfor spectacular scenes in pictures.Ben Lyon and Jimmy Hall flew in the old bomberthroughout the picture. Ben became a real airplane enthusiast and a regular pilot. Both he and Bebe Daniels,his wife, are crazy about aviation.

t was while Ben was learning to fly that a very amusing incident happened. The flyers on the Ford reliabilitytour had arrived in Los Angeles and were to be entertained at the open-air dining room of the Los AngelesBreakfast Club at 8:00 A.M.

Somebody had thought up the idea of having RoscoeTurner and Ben Lyon fly low overhead during the ceremony and throw a flock of flowers down.

They were going to use Roy Wilson's plane, whichwas at Caddo Field. When they arrived that morning at thefield they were late, and Turner was in such a hurry thathe didn t stop to listen to Wilson explain his trick gas system.

They flew down over the Breakfast Club and were doing their stuff when the motor suddenly cut. There wasplenty of gas in the plane, but Turner had opened thewrong tank. The ship had to land in the bed of the LosAngeles River and turned over. By some miracle the riverat that time had about eight inches of water in it.Ben and Turner crawled out, a rather woebegone Sight,while the reliability flyers stood on the bank and cheered,saying they had expected to be entertained but not quiteso royally as by having Ben Lyon put on a crash for themFew people, even pilots themselves, have any conception of the magnitude of the task of maintaining amilitary squadron. Many people have seen army fields,but everything there goes off so smoothly and with so littleapparent effort that it all looks simple.Yet the old saying that for every man at the front theremust be ten behind the lines holds true in aviation, with


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(From Jim Barton Collection)This is Roscoe Turner's Sikorsky S-29A in which he did lot of barnstorming before leasing it to HowardHughes for use in the movie " Hell 's Angels". In the movie the plane was painted up to represent GermanGotha bomber see cover). Turner claimed the fine print of the lease contract to Hughes beat him out of theplane (the contract stipulated that when the amount of the lease payments equalled the value of the air-craft, it belonged to Hughes) . he Sikorsky crashed during filming , making the arguments somewhatacademic.

(Jim Barton Collection)


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IJim Barton Collection)Frank Clarke shortly efore his death in June of 1948.

him to the hospital, where he lingered a day or so, neverlosing consciousness, and then died.With him passed a master of a game that is vanishing.But if, up beyond the Pearly Gates, they have been look-ing for a long time for someone to change from cloud tocloud with one hand, and without using a rope ladder,they at last have him in AI.Our hearts were heavy, but we had to carry on.

Everyone in our squadron was a flying enthusiast, in-cluding Ben Lyon and Howard Hughes. t didn't reallyseem like a motion-picture troupe at all.

One afternoon Ben decided he would fly from the fieldback to town with one of the boys .Hughes got the idea that Ben and Jimmy Hall were al-

ready taking enough risks riding each day in the creakyold German bomber."Now, look here, Ben," he said, "I don't want you todo any unnecessary flying. Cut it out ""I'll tell you, Howard," said Ben, laughing, "I'll make

you a proposition. I'll stop flying i f you will. f I get killedyou can hire another actor and retake my scenes, but ifyou get killed, we all stop getting paid."

"Nonsense " snorted Hughes. "It's different with me.In fact, I think I'll fly one of those old war crates just tosee how it goes."

Hughes had just recently obtained his pilot's license,and purchased his new Waco with a Whirlwind motor;but he had never tried to fly one of the old jobs.Immediately all the pilots tried to dissuade him. Buthe was stubbornness personified. He ordered an oldThomas Morse with a Le Rhone rotary motor wheeled outof the hangar. The boys crowded around, giving him allsorts of advice on how to handle it.I didn't butt in, as I figured he already had enoughadvice to last him for months.

t seemed, however, that they had forgotten to tellhim the most important thing about the ship, which wasnot to try to make a right-hand turn with it too soon aftertaking off.


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Riverside, California, Jim Appleby mentioned that HowardWells of Sepulveda, California had one. I contacted Howard and on a later trip looked over the dismantled engine.It was not quite all there, but it was a start towards whatwe needed for the project. A trade was arranged and Howard now has a Curtiss OXX and we have the makings ofa Wright J-4.Enter Ed Woerle. Ed is a free lance writer for severalaviation publications, an A P, and a Memphis basedmechanic for Delta Air Lines . He also has the hots to builda Pitcairn Mailwing, and the Pitcairn has a Wright engine.Ed is overhauling the J-4 to gain experience on Wright J-4and J-5 engines. Of course, as an offshoot, you are apt tobe reading articles about Wright J-4 engine overhaul in oneor more aviation publications, but in the meantime, Ed isgetting educated and we are getting our engine overhauled. I'm sure glad this is a free country though , causewhen Delta Airlines finds out that one of their mechanicsis overhauling an engine for a United airplane, wellWe have other help too. Deeply involved now is MikeDrabik, a retired United Air Lines mechanic. Mike datesback a long time, back to the Roaring '20s and the barnstorming days . Then about 1928 he went legitimate andwent to work for NAT, another of UAL's predecessors .Mike was once a foreman for the Wallace Aeroplane Company, and so his old-timer experience is a real help in thewood-work department. Mike has become the spark-plugof the north-side operation and is always catching me andthe boys off guard and putting us to work. With Ed McConnell working the south end we have a little competition going. When we meet in the middle, we'll have anearly complete airplane.Mike and I began with the two right wings . We pulledoff all the fittings and hardware and Bob Schroeder cleanedand Glid-Plated them all and keeps asking for more to do .We picked, pried, pulled and poked at the woodwork butthe wings have withstood the passage of time remarkablywell; we couldn t find the slightest excuse to discard them

we ve had to do is varnish after repairing a few crackedribs, installing new trailing edges, new drag and antidrag wire ends , new hardware and the reworked fittings.Three coats of varnish and they came out looking betterthan factory new. Winter weather has slowed us down, butas soon as it breaks we'll finish up the two left ones andhave them ready for Ed to cover.Ed, meanwhile, has stripped the fuselage down to thebones, pulled the OX-5 firewall forward, repaired the 1933groundloop damage to the gear, spliced a couple of crackedtubes, and is about ready to sandblast and start out . Oursearch for data on the Swallow airplanes has been veryfrustrating, but that is a story in itself . . . a story that readslike you wouldn t believe. We have just run into the tophalf of the lower bureau that insists we must have thedata the lower bureau has in the basement files that theupper bureau insists they do not have. We are beingplaced in the position of revealing to the entire bureauwhat they have but insist they don t have, or if they haveit, they don t have any idea where it is. Or, one handdoesn t know where the left knee joins the elbow. Mix thetop bananas into this and remember that nobody in theagency makes any more sense than this last paragraphand you'll maybe get a glimmer of how it is dealing withFAA. I've never experienced so much run-around, anddouble talk in my life. I know where the records are, andso do most of the valid antiquers in this world, but theAgency denies they have them and further, won t lookfor them because they claim they haven t the manpower.The last time I searched out data on a project, I was forcedto go the back door route, through friends of friends whohad a friend who worked there . This friend during thelunch hour removed the micro-filmed records they didn' thave, mailed them to me, and after I printed them outthey were mailed back and replaced in the file . There mustbe some way to get the records we need through the frontdoor, don t you suppose? Well, we ve tried, and tried,and tried. One more try and I m going the other route


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Doug Corrigan waves from car outside irLine dministration Bldg ., before starting downtown tour of Syracuse, New York.


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superVISIOn. After saying goodbye, he taxied out fortake off. Somewhat unusual was the wing-down takeoff but perhaps he was trying to catch a last glimpseof the crowd waving farewell from the Amboy Field.Years later after learning his address, I mailed DougCorrigan a set of photographs. His most gracious responsearrived by return mail, and he had included a photographof himself in the cockpit of Sunshine shortly after modification. At an earlier time he was employed at the Ryanplant as a welder and had worked on C()l. Charles A.Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis , which he noted on therear of that photograph.

The Wright J6-5, 165 hp engine, Serial 11197, built inMay 1929 which powered Doug Corrigan's Curtiss RobinSunshine across the Atlantic from Floyd Bennett Fieldto Baldonnel Field, Dublin, Ireland on July 17, 1938.


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TH PYLON CLUT

REMINISCING WIT IG NICKNick Rezich4213 enterville Rd .

Rockford , II/, 61102

With the water turned off, he proceeds to overhaulall the faucets in the Club, which takes little more thanan hour.

y now all hell had broken loose at the Chicago WaterDepartment. Hundreds of phone calls jammed the switchboard complaining of no water. An emergency crew was


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However, Jane Armstrong had other ideas - she hungthem in the ladies rest room with a sign which read, John'sJohns .A few days later, John flew a trip to New York and raninto a crew that just arrived from Cairo who were going todead head to Chicago. When John was introduced to thecrew, one of the hostesses said, "Oh You're the onewhose shorts are hanging in the ladies room in the PylonClub " Blushing, John retired to the cockpit, never to beseen for the rest of the trip. Where are the shorts today?You will have to ask his wife, Mary - or Jane Armstrong.

t was John who led the first entourage to Warsaw,Indiana to lay the Polish sausage at the tomb of the Unknown Polish Soldier - yes, and they mailed post cardsall over the world from Warsaw, Indiana signed ThePylon Club .

t was John who arranged the contest between myselfand Barrett Deems, who was billed as the World's Fastest Drummer. The contest was held at the Crown Propeller Lounge on East 63rd Street. We closed the PylonClub at 2:00 A.M. and then raced across town with an illegal police escort. By illegal, I mean without the policedepartment's sanction. The coppers who led the race werepolice officials from downtown using their private cars,and we, like dummies, followed them . The contest was adraw - with our crowd saying I won and Barrett's crowdsaying he won . BELIEVE YOU ME, that was a wild nightI was surprised to find any drums left after it was over.

News traveled fast about John's party and his famousshorts . But the night that the Pylon Club became the Python Club, word reached the four corners of the world ina matter of hours .t was a Friday night with standing room only when Ireceived a phone call from a saloon keeper friend of mineoffering me an act from his floor show. He kept telling

me what a terrific act it was and that my crowd wouldreally enjoy them. We were crowded and busy and without asking in detail what the act was, I agreed to put themon between our own show. About a half hour later a cou

" hoochie-koochie". By now you could hear the screamsand shrieks in Los Angeles . In the meantime, the ones upfront were trying to crawl over the bar for protection orgoing out the door. The Coup-de-Main and the Coup-deGrace came when sh e reached Dan Clark. He reached overand pinched her and she let go of the Python whichpromptly sprang around Dan - that did it The jointcleaned out in seconds with screaming ladies leaving behind their purses, cigarettes, lighters, gloves or whatever else they ha d .

When it was all over, the only ones left in the placewere Dan Clark, his wife, Eva, and daughter, Grace. Be-hind the bar with me and the bartenders were Carmenand Hank, Bobby, Joe Scanlon, Jim O'Connor and our P. R.man, Capt. John. The Python Lady dressed, packed herpet, thanked me for letting her perform and left. I calledmy friend Ears and thanked him for cleaning out mybusiness . I also advised him that I was sending him anact for his midnight show - two butchers who would relieve him of his manhood at the bar

That little stunt cost me $500.00 in revenue that night,but I reaped ten times that amount in publicity. The nextday I received phone calls and telegrams from all over thecountry - all addressed to the Python Club . And sothe Pylon Club became known as the Python Club. TheClub was responsible for turning a few people's careersaround, also .The Club had its own regular band, the Henry RiggsQuintette and myself on drums, and on Tuesday nightswe would have an old fashioned jam session. The reason for having it on Tuesday was that most of the topname bands in town were off on Tuesday night and theClub was known to all for a place to go and blow. As a result, we had continuous entertainment with some of thebest musicians in the industry. Many of the musicianslearned to fly as a result of being around the Club, but oneBob Connelly traded his trumped for an airline career.Bob was a big time trumpet player and a great vocalist.In fact, we had his recordings on the juke box long before


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he Pylon Club Offy at Soldier s Field, Chicago. Courtesy Nick Rezich)


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George and about the fifth day Winnie called the Club andasked if we could get a bunch down to St. Louis to donatesome much needed blood.I assured her we would be down the following day .In less than twelve hours we had over 30 donors, plus aDC-3 to fly everybody down.Winnie called the next day and informed me Georgewas off the critical list and that the Ozark Airline personnel had contributed more than enough blood and weneed not come down .

About six months later George and Winnie pulledinto the Club and George laid four stainless steel pins onthe bar and ordered a drink for everybody in the house.I set up the drinks, rang up no sale on the cash box andput two of the pins in the cash drawer. The four pinswere used to pin George's hip together during the healing process. We then reminisced about the time he rebuilt and recovered four wings and the tail group of his0- 17 Staggerwing in a one bedroom apartment on thethird floor of an apartment building in Chicago. That wasa project I'll never forget. I went over to his place one Sunday and as I entered the hallway on the first floor, the dopefumes were so strong one could hardly breath. When Ireached the apartment I knew he was going to blow upthe building. Here was George doping the wings with allthe windows closed in the living room, while Winnie hadall four gas burners on cooking dinner.George finished the project without blowing up thebuilding or being evicted a miracle , indeed. Now forthe bad news . After he finished this jewel, he flew it toSt. Louis and stored it in Ozark's hangar. About this timeOzark was in the process of updating their equipment andGeorge was out of town for an extended period evaluatingthe new equipment. During his absence, a mechanicfriend of his decided to run up the engine on the 0-17 and in the process of starting it, the Shakey Jake backfired, caught fire and George's brand new rebuild jobburned to a crisp. The apartment didn't get him, but thatJake did.

We had a fire in the Club caused by my next door neighbor. The outside oil storage tank for his building caughtfire and blew up, setting fire to the back of the Club. Theexplosion and dense black clouds attracted the wholeneighborhood and all my saloon keeper friends, who,along with myself, thought it was the end of the PylonClub. Everybody pitched in and we started to move allthe furnishings out and placed them on the sidewalk outfront. y the time the fire department arrived, we hadeverything outside but the stock. We left some 150 bottlesof Hooch on the back bar and I locked the cabinet with theunopened stock. After the fire was put out we started totake inventory and discovered that everything on thestreet was gone. When someone asked, Where is thecash box?", we all looked at each other and shook ourheads . Oh no, I asked - where the hell are my drums?Then we checked the bar - well the whiskey stock wasdown to about 25 bottles. Now for those huge pockets every time the firemen would go through the place, theywould slip a couple of bottles into their pockets. This wasbrought to my attention by a bystander - so now youknow why the pockets. After the smoke cleared and itwas decided we were not going to be open for a few days,the place filled up with saloon keepers. I learned BigPolack John, who ran the Club Irene, had my drums inhis place under safe keeping; ig Dirty Helen on the corner had the cash box; and the rest of the stuff was in apizza joint two doors down.BELIEVE YOU ME, people are honest and do helpwhen you need them most. Oh yes All the money wasin the cash box. We put together a volunteer clean upgroup and had the place back in business in a week. I gaveall the remaining whiskey on the back bar to the help.The reason the firemen helped themselves was that byfederal law one cannot serve any whiskey that has beenopened and subjected to fire and water. Those scoundrelsknew it had to be destroyed - so they just helped meOther than the booze, we didn't lose a thing.Next month - Pylon Club and EAA - P.R.P.A.


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would give them good homes . He may be able to be per-suaded to sell some of the other aircraft and parts tooalthough he is planning to put a couple of the Stearmansback together and again get into the spray business.

Among the miscellaneous parts which Parky has onhand are two se ts of tandem wheels for Piper Cubs, wingpanels and some other parts for a Navy N3N a 75 hp Frank-lin engine and assorted parts for a Stinson 105 and a largecollection of aircraft instruments and accessories .Parky lives just off the right side of Highway 28 north-wes t of Managua about a mile beyond the village of LasBrasiles. His property is easily identified by two pair oflarge concrete upside down U structures, an old unusedwindmill tower and several wings and fuselages in theyard which are visible from the road . Anyone interestedin any of these aircraft or parts should first contact himby mail. His mailing address is: Harold Parkhurst, Apar-tado 2 21 Managua, Nicaragua.

Parkys favorite, a Pratt Whitney R-985 powered Stearman. Note the British Sunbeam motorcycle in the back-ground.

Parky s back yard or is it his frontyard?) with four Stearman fuse-lages in the background and a PiperPA-18 in the right foreground .


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Parkys Waco UPF-7 in his storageshed. Note wings and other parts inthe background.

Parky s three tank Luscombe HisSnow and Cessna 180 are barelyvisible behind it.


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ROUNDTHE ANTIQUE/CLASSIC WORLDDear Buck:Relating to your editorial a couple of issuesback - up in the loft here in E. Rutherfordis a 1933 Fairchild 24 2-place cabin , with aCirrus Mk III Hi-drive engine.As best I can determine it is complete downto the last P.K. screw, has clear title, logs andeven some original fabric on it. Would takevery little work to return to service.It 's available to someone who would pro-perly restore it. Aircraft is completely assembled as of now.Best regards,Harold G. Scheck153 Orchard St.East Rutherford, N. J. 07073

Dear Paul:In the March issue of Sport viation youpublished a letter from a fellow in South Africawho was seeking Luscombe parts. I have answered that letter nd given him three possible sources for the parts. I also VOlunteeredany other help that might be needed on thisend .I am the Parts File of the Luscombe Association. I try to maintain a file on used partsowned by individuals which are for sale. Anyone in need of parts can write me for a quickreply (usually quick, anyway) and know if wehave any of the needed parts on file. (Free)The Luscombe Association has no realfunction except that we do have a fly-in eachyear in June at Blakesburg , Iowa. June 21 and22 this year. We usually have a weekend ofvery poor and wet weather. We are hoping tohave better luck this year. In any case thepeople at Antique Airfield could not treat usbetter than they do and we always have a goodtime there. If you care to attend please feelfree to do so. We usually get about 25 Luscombes in attendance even with the badweather.

would know all about it. I'm sorry now I didn 'tfind out more about it.Anyway, if anybody in the Southwest is look-ing for a Stinson 105 to restore, you will bein better shape to advise him. If it's stil lthere. Yours sincerely,Marion G. OttoBox 1888 AramcoDhahran, Saudi Arabia

Dear Sir :Enclosed find several photos of our PiperJ5A.Ship was stored in a barn near Half Way,Missouri - purchased from Mr . RaymondSergent and Mr. Loyd Hudson on December4, 1971. We spent two winters on a completerebuild. We decided to take all the guess workout of what model Piper is that? by puttinga large J-5 on the rudder.

The old bird flies nice - cruises about85 mph on a C-85 engine.I have always liked the Piper Super Cruisers and the J-5 type aircraft - roomy and bothnice ships to fly.For my money there never was a better airplane (tandem seating) than the Piper SuperCruiser. I wish Piper would have kept on build-ing them instead, perhaps, of the Super Cub.Sure, the Super Cub is a good airplane, gets

off right now and climbs out beaut iful - buta 150-160 horse Super Cruiser with flaps wouldbe a darn good, roomy ship - but who am I tobe a better judge of the market and every-thing that goes with it than Piper Aircraft.See you at Oshkosh '75.Respectfully,John P. RathjenRt. 1Ft. Calhoun, Nebraska 68023


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CLASSIFIEDS

WAN TE D - Stinson 108-3 in excellent condition . R. W. WANTE D - Hisso engine or crankcase. 150 or 180 hp toRoss, 1700 N. Williams St. No. 48, Valdosta -Georgia complete a B.E.2 project. Call Mark Spry 201/327-31601. Phone 912/244 3235 or 8332. 7128, 22 Fabio Dr., Ramsey, New Jersey 07446.

Calendar f EventsM Y 23 26 - HAMILTON, OHIO - Annual National Waco Fly-In. ContactRay Brandly, 2650 West. Alex.-Bellbrook Rd., Dayton, Ohio 45459.MAY 23-26 - WATSONVILLE, CALIFORNIA - 11th Annual West Coast

Antique Aircraft Fly-In for antique classic and amateur-builtaircraft. Static displays flying events air show trophies. Fridayand Saturday night get-acquainted parties. Sunday Awards Banquet. For further information contact Watsonville Chamber ofCommerce, Box 470, Watsonville, Calif. 95076, or W. B. Richards,2490 Greer Road, Palo Alto, Calif. 94303.

M Y 23-26 - KENTUCKY LAKE, KENTUCKY - 1975 National SwiftFly-In. Contact: Charlie Nelson International Swift AssociationInc., P. O. Box 644, Athens, Tenn. 37303.M Y 31 - JUNE 1 - CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND - Potomac AntiqueAero Squadron Annual Fly-In at Horn Point Airport on the Frank

DuPont estate just WSW of Cambridge, Maryland. Beautiful grassrunways, no registration fees, free camping - just a super fun flyin. Contact Sam Huntington Fly-In Coordinator, Avery Road, ShadySide, Maryland 20867. Phone 301/261 5190.JUNE 6-8 - MERCED, CALIFORNIA - 18th Annual Merced West Coast

JUNE 13-15 - DENTON, TEXAS - Texas Antique Airplane Association.Inc. Fly-In. Contact Myrna Johnson, 2516 Shady Brook Dr., Bedford,Texas 76021. Phone 817/283 1702.JUNE 15 - WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK - 2nd Antique-Classic andHomebuilt Fly-In/Pancake Breakfast. Trophies. Whitfords Air

port. Sponsored by EAA Chapter 486. Contact: Dick Forger 204Woodspath Rd., Liverpoor, N. Y. 13088.

JUNE 28-29 - BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN - Annual Antique-ClassicDivision Cub Fly-In. All other Antiques Classics and Homebuiltswelcome.JULY 4-6 - GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA - 8th Annual Cracker Fly-In

sponsored by North Georgia Chapter of AAA. Featured speaker isMatty Laird. Contact Bill Davis, 2202 Willivee Place, Decatur, Ga.30033. (404) 636-4743.JULY 29 - AUGUST 41975 - OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN - 23rd Annual EAAFly-In Convention. Sport aviation world's greatest event. It's not tooearly to make plans and reservations

UGUST 24 - WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK - Air Show and Fly-InBreakfast sponsored by EAA Chapter 486. Whitfords Airport.


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