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May 1998
Vol. 26,
No.5
CONTENTS
1 Straight & Level/Espie Butch Joyce
lC
News
4 Aeromail
5 Anton Bilek's Museum Spirit/
H.G. Fraut
sc
hy
7 Bungee Starting/Hank Palm er
8
Puppy
Lovel1ohn Willmott
12 Piper s Super Cruiser /
H.G. Frautschy & Norm Peter
se
n
19 What Our Members Are
RestoringiNorm Petersen
2 1
Modif
ying a Swift for Aerobatic or
Just Good Performance/Jim Montague
25 Mystery Plane/H. G. Frautschy
26 Pass it to Buck/Buck Hilbert
28 Calendar
29 Welcome New
Members
30 Membership Information
Page 19
Page 21
FRONT COVER ... The Piper PA-12 Super Cruiser has been a
favorite
airplane
of
Piper fans for many years, and a recent batch of newer restorations
have been
seen at various fly-ins. This is
J.F.
Fisher III
of
Senoia,
GA
and his sharp looking PA
12 during his visit
to
EAA Oshkosh '97. It was
selected
as
the
Reserve
Grand
Champion Classic of the
Convention.
EAA
photo by
Jim Koepnick, shot with a
Canon EOS-l n
equipped
with an 80-2oomm lens. 1/250 @ l l on 100 ASA trans
parency film. EAA Cessna 210
photo
plane flown
by
Bruce Moore.
BACK COVER
... "Passing
Ages" is
the
artwork produced by
retired Air Force
EDITORIAL STAFF
Publisher
Tom
Poberezny
Editor-in-Chief
Jack Cox
Editor
Henry G. Frautschy
Managing
Editor
Golda
Cox
Art Director
Mike Drucks
Computer Graphic Specialists
Nancy Hanson Olivia L Phillip
Pierre Kotze
Associate Editor
Norm Petersen
Staff Photographers
Jim
Koepnick
L
eeAnn Abrams
Ken
Lichtenberg
Advertising/Editorial Assistant
Isabelle Wiske
EAA ANTIQUE/CLASSIC DIVISION, INC.
OFFICERS
President
Vice-President
Espie "Butch" Joyce
George Daubner
P.O. Box
35584
2448
Lough Lone
Greensboro, NC 27425
Hartford, WI 53027
910/393-0344
414/6735885
Secretory
Treasurer
Steve Nesse
Charles Horris
2009
Highland Ave.
7215
East
46th St.
Albert Leo, MN 5tlYJ7
Tulsa, OK 74145
ffJ7 /373-167 4
918/622-8400
DIRECTORS
John Berendt Gene Morris
7645
Echo Point Rd.
5936
Steve Court
Connon Falls, MN 55009 Roanoke, TX 76262
ffJ7/2632414
817/491-9110
Phil
Coulson Robert C. "Bob " Brauer
28415 Springbrook Dr. 9345
S Hoyne
Lawton, MI
49065
Chicago, IL
60620
616/624-M90
312/7792105
Joe Dckey
John
S. Copeland
55 Oakey Av .
1A Deacon Street
Lawrenceburg, IN
47025
Northborough, MA 01532
812/5379354
508/393
4775
Dale
A.
Gustafson
Stan
Gomoll
7724 Shady
Hill
Dr.
104290th Lone,
NE
Indianapolis,
IN
46278
M i n n ~ f f ~ ~ m
31
7/2934430
Robert Lickteig Jeannie
Hill
1708
Boy Oaks Dr.
P.
O. Box 328
Albert Leo, MN 5tlYJ7
Harvard , IL60033
ffJ7/373 2922
815/943-7205
Dean Richardson Robert D. "Bob"
Lumley
6701 Colony Dr. 1265 South 124th St.
Madison, WI 53717
Brookfield, WI
53005
608/833-1291
414/7822633
S
.H.
'Wes" Schmid Geaf f Robison
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STRAIGHT
LEVEL
by ESPIE
BUTCH
JOYCE
S
n
'n
Fun
has
kicked off
the
begin
ning
of
the fly-in season Now all
of
the local Chapter activities will
be
taking place- sometimes it's hard
to
make
up
your mind which local event
will be the most fun. I have been in
volved with two Chapters for some time ,
EAA Chapter 8 and Antique/Classic
Chapter 3. Chapter 8 was formed some
time around
1958
and has been based
in
Greensboro,
NC
most
of
the time, with
officers
of
the Chapter coming
from
dif
ferent areas near Greensboro.
t was
my
pleasure
to
serve as presi
dent of this Chapter
in the
late
1960s. At
that time
it
was a small group, with maybe
25 members. For the most part, we were
focused on homebuilt aircraft. At that
time,
I
was
building a
Pitts
SIC, intending
to
become the world aerobatic champion.
That never came to pass because Dick
Austin, a fellow member, caused
me
to
catch MONOCOUPE
fever.
I have been a
vintage airplane nut ever since.
This interest in vintage aircraft l
ed me
to
become involved with a group
of
old
airplane enthusiasts, better known
as the
CarolinasNirginia Chapter of the Antique
Airplane Association. One
of
the great
benefits
of belonging
to
this
group was the
At
our last lC board meeting held last
month, Alan
R. Shackleton
was
appointed
by
the Board
of
Directors to
be an
An
tique/Classic Advisor. Alan is
from
Sugar
Grove,
IL
and
is
the current president
of
the Fox Valley Sport Aviation Associa
tion, as well as EAA
Chapter
579 in
Aurora,
IL. He
has also served as their
NewsLetter Editor.
He
is
the CUlTent Pres
ident of the EAA Chapter Advisory
Council and
an EAA
Representive
to
the
Illinois Aviation Forum and Hall of Fame.
Alan restored a Staggerwing B17L, SIN
3, the 1983 Oshkosh Reserve Grand
Champion. He has owned and flown a
1946 Luscombe
8A
since 1985. His cur
rent project
is
a
1949
Stinson 108-3.
He
has a private pilot license with approxi
mately 600 hrs., and all but 100 of them
have been
in
tailwheel airplanes. Noted
by one
of
the directors was the fact that
not on
ly are
we
getting Alan
on
board , but
we will have the
support
of his
great
wife,
Donna.
We
look forward
to
having their
positive input in
the
future .
I don ' t know how the flying weather
has been where
you
are located, but here
in the Carolinas it has been rough air
since the first
of
the year' . . . 1 mean, no
fun
at
all
The South and Southeast have
had their share of tornados. I have a build
ing
in
Madison, NC located next to
my
home place.
t
is 40'
by 60',
and I
use it as
a work shop for different projects.
On the
national
news
you
may
have seen
the
tor
"The previous owner before
Ken
was
Jim Beck.
If
you look
in
John Swick' s
book titled
Th e Luscombe Story on
page
196
you will find Jim' s name listed
as
a
Luscombe dealer
in
Zionsville, Indiana
in
1948,
where
Jim ran
his small airport
and
was
an
A&P at Beck Airport. Over a pe
riod
of
years he owned a number
of
different airplanes including
the Parks P-2
biplane later owned
by
Richard Bach, au
thor
of lonathan Livingston Seagull and
numerous books about people, airplanes
and flying. N2628K also was one Jim
owned
for
a
few
years
up
to
about
1969
,
when
he wa
s diagnosed with cancer.
He
sold 2628K in
'69
or ' 70 to the man I
bought
it from in 1972. As it
turned
out,
1
built a house in
the
same town where Jim
was
living
and
when
he found
out I owned
2628K, he looked
me
up and told
me
about the following disasters that oc
curred
to
that old airplane while
he
owned
it.
Despite
the
accident stories I'll
soon re
late
to you
, Jim and
the
other people
who
flew
it
had many enjoyable hours in the
airplane,
as
I
did also when
I
owned
it."
I'll quote
more from
Ken's
note
next month.
To all of
those people who have been
so
great
to
support
the n
membership
drive, thank you very much . . . the Board
of
Directors and I ask that you keep
up
the great job. There are some members
we have not heard from and
it
would
be
great
if
each member could recruit at
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A/C NEWS
compiled
by
H G Frautschy
About the Back Cover ..
John Sarsfield, 6541 St. Vrain Rd.,
Longmont,
CO
80503, wrote the follow
ing about his painting "Passing Ages,"
which
depicts a Lockheed Electra passing
over a
Hudson
locomotive
at
twilight:
I want people
to
understand
th
e signifi-
cance
of
aviation Our lives have been
c
hang
ed
imm
eas
urably
by the ability
to see
the worldfrom
an
aerial perspective.
often
in
subtle ways The ability
to
experience
cloudscapes as three dimensional objects
and see landscapes from unfamiliar vantage
points
changes our
outlook on
life.
1want to
introduce
this
perspective
to the
earthbound
viewer and attempt
to
capture
it
for the fly-
ers to
enjoy
in
their hours
on the ground. ..
AUTO GAS RUMOR UNTRUE
Several members
have
contacted
EAA
recently and asked about a rumor cUlTently
circulating among some FBOs that the
auto
fuel
STCs issued by EAA and Pe
tersen Aviation were
now void
because of
changes
in
the ASTM
fuel
specifications.
To put it simply, the rumors are
not
true .
An
article
in
a FBO trade magazine
cited an unnamed source from
a
major
fuel
supplier
as
stating the
STCs were
no longer
valid because
of
changes made to the
A
TSM
specifications now
in
effect. That
supposition is incolTect,
as
the FAA has
approved the use
of
auto gas containing
(methyl-tertiary-butyl ether) MTBE and
(ethyl-tertiary-butyl ether) ETBE in air
craft
being
operated under
auto fuel STCs
issued by EAA and
Petersen Aviation.
MTBE and ETBE are added to gaso
was
built with a
full
monocoque
fuse
l
age
structure
of
sheet aluminum. The only
steel tube
in
the fuselage are a couple
of
circles
used as
internal attachment points.
lC
HALL OF FAME
Nominations are now being accepted
for
inductees in the Antique/Classic Hall
of
Fame. The next induction ceremonies
will take place in the
fall of
1999. Please
use a copy
of
the nomination form (see
opposite page) and add any additional
documentation to the form. It is vitally
important that yo ur nominee's contribu
tion s to aviation be documented as
completely
as
possible. Additional letters
of support confirming the nominee s
background are certainly welcome. The
NC Hall of
Fame currently includes:
E.E.
"Buck" Hilbert
George York
Joe
Juptner
Cole Palen
Kelly Viets
Harold Annstrong
Ann Pellegreno
Paul
Poberezny
Jim
Younkin
FLY IN
NOTES
Here are a few of the many great Type
Club fly-ins taking place
in
the coming
months. Check them out if you're inter
ested in
those airplanes, or
if
you
just
want more
information!
LUSCOMBE FLY-IN
Held
at
Coles County Memorial Air
port in Mattoon,
IL,
the Luscombe Fly-In
is
for
all
Luscombe enthusias
ts.
The dates
are June 12-14. For information
on
ac
commodations and activities, contact
Jerry
Cox at 217
/234-8720, or
Emai
l
him
at
jerry [email protected]
in
Cottage Grove, OR on July
19
, the air
tour wi ll wend its way across 900 miles of
Oregon, ju
st
a bit of
Idaho and then
west
ward
to
the Pacific, ending on July 23.
Contact the Oregon Air Tour, P.O. Box
6 13, Creswell, OR 97426, or phone
5411746 3387.
SOUTHWEST REGIONAL FLY-IN
For those
of you who are
already plan
ning your fall calendar, you may be
interested to know about a change
in
venue
for the
Southwest Regional Fly-In.
This year,
the
fly-in moves
from
Kerrville
to
Abilene, TX , where it will occupy the
west side
of the
airport. The
new
location
will allow the fly-in
to
grow
as
the years
progess. The dates are October 15-18 .
Call 512/388-7399 for information,
or check out their web site: www.mrdata.
comlairshow
/swrfi
/
SHORT WING PIPERS
The Buckeye Chapter
of
the SWPC
will host th e annual convention of the
club, also being held at Hook Field in
Middletown,
OH.
The
SWPC
convention
will take place July 13-16. With a theme
of "Back
to
the Birthplace
of
Aviation,"
attendees
will have an
opportunity
to
visit
the Air Force Museum at Wright-Patter
son AFB , as well as a visit from a group
of
local enthusiasts who have built and
are flying a replica
of
the Wright Model
B.
For more information, contact Tom
Anderson,
513
/398-2656
(Email:
tdander
son@sprin
tm
ai l. com) or Jan Widman,
937/364-6050. You can also visit their
web site: www
.shortwing.comlI998
MlKESTROK
Col. Michael Strok,
81,
died February
7, 1998
at hi
s
hom
e
in
Annapolis,
MD.
A
1938
graduate
of
Cornell University,
he
went
to
work at Piper Aircraft Corp. that
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He
decided to continue
his Army service, flying
as one of the first MASH
helicopter pilots during
the Korean war. During
his 25 year military ca
reer, Mike was awarded
the Bronze star and Air
medal, as well as
the
Army
Commendation
medal. He retired from
the Army in
1967.
A
career with
the
Air
Transport Association
followed,
but
light
air
craft were never far from
his soul. A longtime member
of
the EAA
and Piper Aviation Museum Foundation,
Mike enjoyed restoring and building light
planes.
HAROLD BROMLEY
Harold Bromley,
who,
along with
Harold Gatty, attempted to fly the Pa
cific in 1930 in the Emsco
City
of
Tacoma"(above) died this past Decem
ber in Palm Desert, CA. He was
99.
Trying to take advantage of the pre
vailing winds, Bromley and Gatty took
off
from Sabishiro beach
350
miles north
of
Toyko,
but had to turn back after
exhaust fumes
in
the cabin nearly over
came the aviators. They were in the air
over 24 hours before landing back in
Japan. When Clyde Pangborn and Hugh
Herndon crossed the Pacific in a Bel
lanca in 1931, Bromley gave up on the
transpacific flight.
Bromley had attempted twice to span
the ocean, his first flight cut short when,
during the takeoff run from the new air
port in Tacoma, WA he was splashed in
the eyes by spilling gasoline and veered
off
the runway, wrecking the Lockheed
Explorer he was piloting and ruining his
chances of making the flight at that time.
Two more Lockheeds were built for the
attempt, but both were wrecked before
the Emsco was purchased and shipped to
Japan for the attempted flight.
INTERNATIONAL
EAAANTIQUE/CLASSIC
HALL
OF
FAME
On this page is the nominating petition
for the
EAA
Antique/Classic Division Hall
of
Fame.
If
you wish to nominate an individ-
ual
who you believe has made a significant
contribution
to
the advancement
of
aviation
between 1950 and the present day, please
make a copy of this
form, fill it
out, add sup-
porting material and send
it
to:
Charles
W.
Harris, P.O. Box
470350,
Tulsa, OK
74147
0350.
Please mark the envelope: EAA
Antique/Classic Division Hall
of
Fame,
Attn: C.
Harris.
Please
be
as thorough and objective as
Person s
name
submitting
this petition:
_
Street
Phone
Number
_
City State Zip _
Person
nominated
for
induction
in the
EAA Antique/Classic
Division Hall of Fame:
Name _
Street
Phone
Number
_
City
State Zip _
Date
of
Birth
If
Deceased,
Date
of
Death
_
Area of contributions to aviation _
Date
or
time span of
the nominee s
contributions to aviation. Must
be between
1950
-
to the present
day.
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VINTAGE
AeroMail
DANISH CUB
Dear H.G.,
The J-2 Cub,
SIN
339
that
is pic
tured
on
Page 9
of
the
February
98
Vintage Airplane looks a lot like an
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