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by PAUL H. POBEREZNY
w, ITH THE COMING of spring . . . can the challenges of Oshkosh be far behind? I'm sure that
with the onset of warmer weather you share with me the desire to get outside again, do some flying
and prepare for our annual convention. This month, however, I would like to discuss some matters that
hit closer to home for us at EAA Headquarters for me, my staff and your EAA Board of Directors.
The last few months have been most interesting and challenging for me as president of EAA . . .
quite a contrast to the early days of the organization. I have long recognized that when EAA grew
to a level of national importance in the aviation world, our critics would suddenly multiply in number.
It seems to be the nature of things that while one or an organization is struggling to succeed,
folks are kind and show a willingness to be helpful. But when it appears some success is being achieved,
a few of the very people who helped you get there start looking upon you as a "fat cat", as "too big."
Those of you who have experienced similar irony in your professions, know the truth . . . the bigger
the organization, the bigger the problems.
As many of you know, we have spent the past twenty-three years dedicated to the cause of designing,
building and flying for fun. The aims and goals of the organization, as far as I am concerned, are the
same as when we started in January of 1953. My own thoughts relative to the needs of the movement
have not changed since the days of working in my garage building up a clipped wing Taylorcraft. That
was 1948. I feel I have learned a great deal from the members of the Experimental Aircraft Asso-
ciation and the many people in government and industry with whom I have had the privilege of
working. The guidance of the EAA Board of Directors and the EAA Air Museum Foundations Board
of Trustees has been immeasurable.
With the growth of our organization, we have attracted aviation enthusiasts of widely diverse
interests. Each has a different view of aviation and what it means to him. Each, consequently, has a
different opinion as to what EAA should do for him. Trying to respond to such diversity, to be all
things to all people, is a challenge, to say the least.
I would like to share with the members some of the requests, the advice and criticism we receive
at Headquarters. It is my intention to present this material simply to show the many directions in
which we are constantly pulled, and not to make light of or be critical of anyone.
1. We receive a great deal of mail from EAA members asking what we are doing about such things
as user's fees, ELTs, control towers and air space restrictions. These letters are numerous and require
a great deal of time and research on the part of our very small staff. We, nevertheless, attempt to
answer each and every request.
2. Many letters are received relative to our annual Convention ranging from requesting special
authorization to have private automobiles on the flight line to free admittance for various individuals
and/or groups, as well as pilots, aircraft owners.
3. Many comments are received relative to the campsite at Oshkosh, pertaining to fees, the
establishment of electrical outlets, the need for more showers, better lighting, evening programs for
teenagers, elimination of cats and dogs or, from others, special facilities for pets the need for
more shade trees, building of such things as a hospital, and other such conveniences.
4. Criticism of the EAA Air Museum Foundation for making drawings available of the EAA Bi-
plane, the Acro Sport and the Pober Pixie in competition with other designers in the country. They feel
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SPORT AVIATION
Official Publication of the Experimental Aircraft Association International Inc.
An International Non-Profit Organization Dedicated to Aviation Education SPORT AVIATION ASSOCIATION
INCORPORATED
MAY 1975 VOL. 24 NO. 5
Copyright " 1975 by the Experimental Aircraft Assn.. Inc. All rights reserved.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Homebuilder's Corner . . . by Paul Poberezny .......................... 2
Letters To The Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Hot Line From Headquarters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
Project Crossroads . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
The First Plans Built Scale SE-5A Flies . . . by Jack Mickey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
The Impossible Dream . . . by Bill Adams ............................... 15 Page 37
Gyroplane Performance Calculations and Trends . . .
. . . by Martin Hollmann . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Non-Pilots of EAA . . . Especially for You! . . . by Jayne A. Schiek ........ 25
What Our Members Are Building . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Air Racing Workshop . . . by Don Berliner .............................. 28
Push-Pull Tube Uniball Supports . . . by Richard and David Thuss ....... 29
Exhaust Systems . . . by James M. Hill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Ultimate Monocoupe . . . by Jack Cox . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Page 43
Plastics For Aircraft Homebuilding . . . by Val Wright.................... 40
Wag-Aero Cuby . . . The Rebirth of a Legend . . . by Jack Cox ........... 41
The Saga of Sopwith Pup N5182 . . . by K. C. D. St. Cyr/en, M.B.E. ....... 48
The Designee Corner . . . by Antoni Bingelis ............................ 60
Which "AN" Bolt Dash Number? . . . by Luther P. Sunderland ........... 63
Calendar of Events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Museum - Headquarters Financial Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Washington Report . . . by David Scott . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
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EAA DIVISIONS
ADDRESS ALL DIVISION MAIL TO: (NAME OF DIVISION), BOX 229, HALES CORNERS, WISC. 53130
4 MAY 1975
Dear Paul: Based on the discussions I heard, one area
Letters To The Editor It was with great interest I read Mr Paul
Walton's letter in the February 1975 issue of
that we m the Illinois Division of Aeronautics
may be able to help would be to help the air
SPORT AVIATION show sponsors by giving guidelines to all
Dear Paul, Jack and associates: It is certainly too bad he feels the magazine operators and airport managers in Illinois
I noticed an item in the "Western Flyer", is his only benefit from the EAA Apparently he regarding the developing of an air show pro-
2nd issue. Feb 1975, datehned Hales Corners is not covering the magazine completely as I gram and the process of the contacts necessary
and titled Tailwind in EAA Museum now. It can recall the accidents claiming three lives for that program If you have any such course
goes on to say that the Tailwind original being explained quite well in SPORT AVIATION of action, or if a copy is available through the
prototype N5747N which was designed 22 years As one who received his license in October IAC. would you please forward a copy to me
ago was the first airplane certified under 1946 and spent 1948 to 1964 in midget race with the privilege of using it for that type of
Federal Government Regulations for Amateur cars. I can attest to the fact that cars are no informational service. I will see that it is
Builts to carry passengers more fun I logged more hospital time than placed in the hands of those persons who
Now, I hesitate to steal Steve Wittman's flying time during those 18 years and regret would most likely be sponsoring aviation
thunder, but as Charlie Chan would have said. I didn't discover EAA until 1965. activities
'Correction, please." For your information. I Mr Walton has forgotten the EAA is a non- Sincerely,
built a Pietenpol Air Camper with a French profit organization and certainly costs have Burrill E Coppernoll
Salmson engine before the War and I had the tripled in the last 20 years Lacquer thinner Flight Safety Coordinator
very last Oregon State Aircraft License, number has gone from $52.75 for a 55 gal. drum in Illinois Department of
23 on it in 1941 June of 1973 to the current rate of $132 00 for Transportation
In either Sept or Oct. 1946. I am not sure a 55 gal. drum, and in just 1Vz years And Springfield. III. 62705
which, the CAA made a rules change providing how about food!!
for Experimental Certification of Amateur Incidentally my painter, who is not a member, Dear Mr Poberezny:
Built aircraft for private flying provided they applied a little EAA knowhow to a problem he I found the January edition of SPORT AVIA-
passed a satisfactory visual inspection by a had in his home recently. He had some leaks TION to be nostalgic for several reasons The
CAA maintenance inspector in his shower onto the bathroom floor He ob- first was. of course, the very beautiful home-
On April 24, 1947 Inspector Charlie Sleeves tained 2 estimates for $60000 and $300.00 built on the cover Next was the Gee Bee
of the Portland GADO inspected and "licensed" and upon my urging, fixed it himself for a photograph on page 29
my Air Camper and informed me at the time cost of $8 00. I guess some trades are money The fence in the background is where I
that it was the first one in the U.S to be so hungry spent many hours watching activity at this,
certified. On about the first of Sept 1947, I I notice Mr Walton didn't buy "Flying" maga- the Springfield Airport
again met Charlie at the airport and after zine until their recent offer, limited, of $499 When I was very young my grandfather used
another inspection and look at the log books, for a year's subscription. It is certainly too bad to drive me there on Saturday or Sunday to
he issued another airworthiness certificate he feels another $041.6666 cents a month watch the pilots taking people for rides in the
which permitted carrying a passenger (not for is too much for an EAA member If ever a Wacos and later Piper Cubs
hire) The first license was good for only six person has missed the message and intent of As I grew older I would bicycle there and
months At the time of relicensmg I had over the EAA he certainly has 'Nuff said visit Airman Tech School to observe rebuilding
10 hours on it and that was all that was re- My best to all of you of airplanes.
quired then Gray Harmon (EAA 23305 Lifetime) I never saw the Gee Bee's as I was only 1
I did carry passengers in it during 1947 and 14944 San Ardo Dr year old then but that fence at that airport is
again in 1949 At the time of original licensing La Mirada. Calif. 90638 where it all began for me
I lived at Salem; the fall of 1947 I moved to I remember two beautiful airplanes on dis-
Springfield At the time Inspector Harold Lane Dear Paul: play at the Eastern States Exposition in West
relicensed it in November 1948. the license Thank you for asking this department to Springfield. Mass in the late thirties. They
was then good for one year participate in your Aerobatic/Air Race Con- were the MAC-1 and MAC-2. I believe they
It was last flown in October 1949 I then serence on January 28 and 29 I found it very were racing planes constructed in Springfield
disassembled it and took it home and later, due interesting and educational. also
to a legal piece of business, lost the parts The Again I want to compliment you on the The last time I was in Springfield in 1973
last I heard the engine was in Florida There is museum which is absolutely spotless. the name Granville Brothers was still legible
a picture of my puddle jumper on page 23 of Keep up the good work! on the old hangar
the EAA reprint of the 1932 Modern Mechanic's Sincerely yours. The rest of the airport is now a shopping
Flying Manual This picture was taken during George Holey center and only those fond memories remain.
May of 1949 on the old Springfield Airport. Deputy Commissioner Sincerely,
If information I received from several sources State of Minnesota Ray B Smith EAA 91112
years ago is correct, there were 4 of us who Department of Aeronautics 1265 So Maple 305
flew home made airplanes with Federal Licenses St Paul. Minn 55107 Ann Arbor. Mich, 48103
in 1947 I was the first. George Bogardus of
Dear Paul: Dear Paul:
Troutdale. Oregon was second, and inciden-
Enclosed is my donation towards "Project In the March issue of SPORT AVIATION you
tally, it was entirely due to George's efforts
Crossroads." If your financial goal is not met published a letter from a fellow in South Africa
that CAA was persuaded to make the historical
please feel free to solicit an additional donation who was seeking Luscombe parts. I have
rules change which started all this. Arthur
from myself I would be more than happy to answered that letter and given him three pos-
Becker of Brockton. New York was the third
donate again if the need so desires. sible sources for the parts I also volunteered
and Ernie Fillinger of Lancaster. California,
Being temporarily assigned to Saudi Arabia any other help that might be needed on this
fourth Becker and Fillinger are both deceased
inhibits my abilities to actively work with end.
Bogardus's airplane is a wire braced low
EAA, however. Sport Aviation. Sport Aerobatics I am the "Parts File" of the Luscombe Asso-
wing, single place with 65 Cont. Becker's was
and Trade-A-Plane are all great substitutes. ciation. I try to maintain a file on used parts
a 40 Cont. parasol and Fillinger's was a Prest
Wishing yourself and EAA all the best. owned by individuals which are for sale Any
Baby Pursuit, parasol, with a 3 cyl Lawrence
I still hope that sometime I will make it to Sincerely yours one in need of parts can write me for a quick
the Convention Stan Price. Capt USAF reply usually quick anyway and know if
Sincerely. PSO Box 42 we have any of the needed parts on file.
Russ Stewart EAA 2924 APO New York 09616 The Luscombe Association has no real func-
370 S 42nd St. tion except that we do have a fly-in each year
Springfield, Ore 97477 Dear Mr. Poberezny: in June at Blakesburg. Iowa. June 21 and 22
It was a privilege for me to attend the recent this year. We usually have a weekend of very
Dear Paul: coordinating program between flying personnel poor and wet weather We are hoping to have
Thank you for your personal letter regarding and the Federal Aviation Administration better luck this year. In any case the people
"Project Crossroads With your leadership. I representatives It is gratifying to feel that at Antique Airfield could not treat us better
feel confident that my donation will be wisely general aviation does have the opportunity to than they do and we always have a good time
and efficiently used on my favonte air museum have a voice in formulating future FARS there If you care to attend please feel free
the EAA Museum Certainly the EAA is fulfilling a great need in to do so. We usually get about 25 Luscombes
It may also interest you to know that I have sponsoring this report, not only with the sole in attendance even with the bad weather
willed everything in my estate that has to do interest of EAA members alone, but for all Also feel free to give out my name and
with aviation to the EAA Air Museum Founda- areas of general aviation to be heard It has address in answer to any inquiries about Lus-
tion long been my contention that those claiming combe parts or other information We also
It was a privilege to be able to participate to represent general aviation have only given publish a newsletter a couple times a year
in such a fine program. their opinion of what general aviation is think- on no regular schedule and we have a $3.00
Sincerely, ing and what will supply his needs without year membership fee which we try to collect.
Bill Stern actually giving him/her the opportunity to Thank you. Richard Lawrence
9490 S.W 1116 St. speak out as individuals. Keep up the good 1787 Russell
Miami. Fla. 33176 work! Lincoln Park. Mich. 48146
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BACK COVER PAINTING FOR MAY MUSEUM VOLUNTEERS
This month's back cover painting is by artist Ralph B. Bob Ladd of the EAA Air Museum staff is in charge
Steele (EAA 66037), 5514 Spring Park Drive, Evansville, of the volunteer work program that has been so instru-
Indiana 47711. A number tf his beautiful works grace mental in preparing museum displays in past years.
the walls of the EAA Air Museum, including the Waco During March just over 100 hours of volunteer work was
UPF-7 featured here. The original is a 32" x 24" painting accomplished by Dave Nelson of Racine, Wisconsin; Bob
done in acrylics. Ladd, Milwaukee; Cliff Gould, Milwaukee; Bob Smith,
Ralph sets the scene for his painting thusly: "It's late Franklin, Wisconsin; Jim Stulac, Racine, Wisconsin;
winter, the Waco has reposed alone and inert in its han- Dario Brisighella, Oak Creek, Wisconsin; Chuck Scheff-
gar since the first cold weekends last fall. Rolled from ner, New Berlin, Wisconsin; Ken Lane of Elm Grove,
the dark winter den into the late winter sun, its pilot Wisconsin and Tom Ruplin of Milwaukee. This volunteer
couldn't refuse a local hop even in the chill of a waning program is a two-way street - the volunteer has the oppor-
winter's day. The rolling hills of Southern Indiana echo tunity to learn, free of charge, aircraft construction skills
to the staccato bark of the Continental as the graceful under the one-to-one tutelage of experienced museum
UPF-7 pulls into circling flight over a landmark of another personnel, and the museum benefits from their efforts.
bygone era. Snow is still on the land, but the sight and Far more work is turned out each month than could ever
sound of an open cockpit biplane moving across the be accomplished by the museum's small full-time staff.
cold blue sky is an early harbinger that the long winter Anyone wishing to participate in the program should
is ending and summer flying is soon to follow. contact: Bob Ladd, EAA Air Museum, telephone 414-
The beauty and functionalism of the biplane is 425-4860.
captured here in one of the fine examples from the golden
age of general aviation, the Waco UPF-7. The symmetry JOINT EAA-AIAA EXPERIMENTAL
of the uplifted wing and curve of meandering stream AIRCRAFT SYMPOSIUM
counter-point each element to communicate the slow,
easy flight of the graceful Waco." The State of Washington Chapters of the Experimental
Aircraft Association, Inc. and the Pacific Northwest
Section of the American Institute of Aeronautics and
"GREATS OF AVIATION DAY" AT OSHKOSH '75 Astronautics are sponsoring an experimental aircraft
symposium in Seattle, Washington June 28. The sym-
Something new will be added as a part of the program posium will bring aircraft designers and builders
for this year's EAA Fly-In Convention in Oshkosh, Wis- together to exchange ideas, experience, and technology.
consin a "Greats of Aviation Day." It will be held on Twenty papers will be presented in parallel and joint
Thursday, July 31, with approximately 40 of the people sessions. Subjects will vary from high technology air
who contributed to the development of aviation in the foil sections, to new homebuilt aircraft, to innovative
days prior to World War II in attendance. new design concepts and to restoration of antique air-
The complete list of attendees has not been firmed up craft. Such well known experimental aircraft personalities
as of this writing but will include famous pilots, designers, as Jim Bede, Pete Bowers, Burt Rutan and Molt Taylor
mechanics, publishers, and others who helped to make will present papers in person or be represented. In addi-
aviation great in its adolescent years. We will publish tion to technical paper presentations, a concurrent series
a complete list of the attendees in an upcoming issue of of flight films will be shown and a static display of
SPORT AVIATION. experimental aircraft will be tied down adjacent to the
As a part of the program, a forum will be held in auditorium on Boeing Field.
Forums Pavilion 1 from 12:30 to 2:15 that day in addition Pre-registration is requested to assist in symposium
to a special evening program that night devoted to these planning. Pre-registration information and further
famous individuals. symposium details can be obtained by requesting a
It's something you sure won't want to miss and will symposium brochure. Write to "Symposium", 120 Mt.
make Oshkosh '75 the greatest ever! Olympus Drive, S.W., Issaquah, Washington 98027. Pre-
registration is three dollars. An additional nine dollars
at registration bring all symposium privileges, including
CANADIAN EAA CONVENTION lunch and a copy of the proceedings. If pre-registration
The annual EAA of Canada Sport Aviation Convention is not accomplished, the total symposium fee is fifteen
will be held at Orillia, Ontario on Saturday and Sunday, dollars.
July 18 and 19, 1975. For further details contact EAAC Proceedings income will be donated to the EAA Air
Headquarters, 16 Acre Heights Cr., Scarborough, Ontario, Museum Foundation and the Pacific Northwest Aviation
Canada M1H 2N9. Historical Foundation.
6 MAY 1975
BUTTERFIELD RESIGNATION The FCC recommends that purchasers of airborne
As widely predicted, Alexander Butterfield resigned receivers make sure that the set has been designed in
as FAA Administrator on March 31, 1975. Although he accordance with Radio Technical Commission for Aero-
reluctantly but indelibly carved his niche in history as nautics' paper DO-157 which contains recommendations
the man who revealed the existence of the Nixon tapes, concerning receiver rejection of unwanted signals.
Alexander Butterfield was also, from the EAA standpoint,
a good Administrator. During his short tenure with FAA, NEW CHART PRICES
he led delegations to the 1973 and 1974 EAA Conven- The Government Printing Office and the National
tions at Oshkosh and came to Hales Corners on several Ocean Survey have just announced that Sectional charts
occasions to participate in Listening Sessions and sport and WACs will be increased in price from the present
aviation related conferences. Further, he made it a top $1.15 to $1.85. TCAs go from $1.00 to $1.85 and the
level policy to invite EAA participation in FAA meetings Wall Planning Chart goes from $2.30 to $4.00. Looks
and conferences in Washington and other points across like the government is trying its best to get out of the
the nation on an equal basis with other users of the business, eh?
country's airspace. He made himself totally acessible to
the EAA leadership at any time a problem arose that CAMPER RENTALS
needed immediate top level attention. The Appleton Area Chamber of Commerce has pro-
All this . . . despite the fact that by his own admission, vided EAA Headquarters with a list of addresses of firms
Mr. Butterfield knew virtually nothing of sport/general in the Oshkosh/Appleton/Neenah area from which EAA
aviation when he assumed office. In retrospect, it is Convention goers can rent campers during Oshkosh '75.
difficult to imagine an administrator making a more They are: A to Z Rental Center, 301 Main St., Neenah,
determined effort to understand the problems of those Wis. 54956, 414/722-6141. Pete's Camping Center, 810
diverse factions of the aviation world he tried to serve. Ducharme St., Kaukauna, Wis. 54130, 414/766-3123.
Everyone in aviation and, we suspect, the majority of Quinnette's In Morrison, Rt. 2, Greenleaf, Wis. 54126,
the general public realize that Alex Butterfield has re- 414/864-2412. Rolling Wheels, Inc., 2340 North Lake St.,
signed his post due to the exigencies of the political Neenah, Wis. 54956 (Motor Homes Only), 414/739-4339.
situation that have existed in Washington for the past
few years . . . and the nation is worse off for it.
EAA Headquarters will, of course, attempt to estab- SWEEPSTAKES PRIZE ADDITION
lish the same level of cooperation with whomever is Tom Poberezny, EAA Executive Vice President, has
named as the new Adminstrator. Meanwhile, we wish been informed by the Pennzoil Company that five cases
Alexander Butterfield the very best in his future endeavors. of oil are being donated to add to the prizes to be awarded
in the EAA Air Museum Sweepstakes (see March SPORT
AVIATION for Sweepstakes details).
NEW ASSISTANT ADMINISTRATOR
Allan Landolt was sworn in as Assistant Administrator CLASSIC PRE-REGISTRATION
for General Aviation on Wednesday, March 26. This is As in past years, notice is hereby given of the need
a popular appointment as Mr. Landolt has wide support in
for pre-registration of Classic aircraft in order to park
the general aviation community. He comes to Washington
from the Illinois Department of Aeronautics of which in the Antique-Classic display area. EAA defines Classic
he was the Director. aircraft as factory-built aircraft of any nation constructed
not less than 20 and not more than 30 years ago. Pre-
registration is necessary due to the large number of
ATLANTA TCA EXPANSION aircraft in this age category.
To pre-register your Classic, write Gar W. Williams,
The FAA has adopted new boundaries for the Terminal Jr., 9 S. 135 Aero Dr., Rt. 1, Naperville, 111. 60540,
Control Area at Atlanta. These changes are important giving him your complete mailing address, airplane type
because they very well may forecast future modifications and N-number. Include a stamped, self-addressed enve-
of all other TCAs. The Atlanta TCA has had another lope with your request. Due to the limited space available,
circular layer of airspace added to the top of the existing owners of "show" quality aircraft ONLY are requested
"wedding cake." It comprises a circular section 35 miles to pre-register for Classic parking.
in radius and extends upward from 8,000 to 12,500 ft. Owners of Antique and Classic aircraft are advised
MSL. This new circular section, known as Area E, sits that a new EAA campground is being constructed just
on top of the old TCA which had a radius of 20 miles west of the Antique-Classic parking area at Oshkosh
and extended up to 8,000 ft. The new configuration just across the street, in fact and a new access road
will be tested for a year and if proven successful, no doubt and gate connecting the two areas will be provided.
will be adopted for all other TCA's to give positive control Therefore, no camping will be allowed in the aircraft
for all jets operating from the surface of major terminals p a r k i n g / d i s p l a y areas. Owners have the option of
to cruising altitudes. camping across the street in the new campground or
parking their aircraft in the aircraft camping area on
the north side of the field. Valid criticism from show
INTERMODULATION PRODUCTS aircraft owners has prompted this move cited are
The Federal Communication Commission has a notice instances of campfires under airplane wings, use of gaso-
in the Federal Register this week calling attention to line lanterns, etc, that could result in the loss of
interference in air/ground VHF communications caused valuable aircraft and, possibly, lives.
by intermodulation products. These are spurious signals
picked up by VHF receivers that can be caused by two
powerful FM and/or AM stations that create intermodula- NEW FAA CONTROL TOWER
tion products in certain geographical areas, radiating
signals produced by two dissimilar metals touching each The latest control tower to be commissioned by FAA
other and design characteristics of certain solid state is located at Lebanon, New Hampshire . . . population
aircraft receivers. 9,725.
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AVIEN AVGAS GUIDE is a classic example of governmental meddling in the
A series of pocketsize booklets is now available listing economy creating more problems than it solves. By
almost all U.S. airports (alphabetically, by states) with singling out boating, snowmobiling and non-commercial
the availability and price of 80 and 100 octane aviation flying for ruinous taxation, H.R. 5005 runs completely
gasoline. A notation is also made to indicate if a counter to one of the most significant trends in today's
restaurant is located on the airport and restaurants economy . . . the rising importance of recreation as an
located within 14 mile, or if a courtesy car is available. industry.
Called Avien's Avgas Guide, the booklets are printed in It comes as a shock to most Americans to learn that,
three editions, Central, Eastern and Western. Each is according to U.S. Interior Department figures, in 1974
published four times a year. Subscription rates are $10.00 we spent more money on recreation than on national
per year for one edition, $15.00 for two editions and defense expenditures . . . $105 billion, in fact. This is
$20.00 for all three. Write Avien Co., P.O. Box 12088, more than the total income of the nation's farmers or
Wichita, Kansas 67212. the profits of the nation's corporations.
It surprises citizens to learn that some 4 million U.S.
THE WASHINGTON SCENE jobs are now recreation based . . . that's an estimated
Hearings are being held in Washington on the re- 1 in every 20 jobs. And the trend is growing. About 40
newal of the Airport Development Aid Program (ADAP) million Americans receive three week vacations and the
which expires June 30, 1975. The Ford Administration four day work week is proliferating. There's nothing
initially made it known that it would propose to Congress unexpected in all this, however. Economists and political
the renewal of ADAP with certain additions such as $5 scientists have been predicting for decades that the
and $10 "departure fees" at airports with FAA towers U.S. would eventually move to an economy based more
and offering radar service, plus the use of trust fund on service industries and less on arms production and
monies for day to day operation of the FAA. This created heavy industry. In simple terms, what we are seeing, in
an instant furor, however, causing the Administration part, is a flooding of the work force by persons employed
to back off somewhat, dropping the "departure" fees in in the space-related industry in its glory days in the 60s
favor of raising the present 7c per gallon federal aviation and a winding down of the nation's war machinery as
gasoline tax to 15c. a result of our pull out in Indo-China. Where will these
In early April the House Public Works and Transpor- people work? Certainly not in the auto plants or the
tation Committee Subcommittee on Aviation held hearings homebuilding trades. Most will have to be absorbed into
on ADAP renewal. David Scott testifed in behalf of EAA, new and growing industries . . . such as recreation.
pointing out that present and proposed new taxes are It becomes painfully obvious that Representative Ull-
inequitable because they make "no distinction . . . between man's bill would be a devastating blow to the economy
aircraft that are used for recreational purposes and that in general by virtue of its crushing effect on the recrea-
do not use the (airway) system from aircraft that are tion industry. Sport aviation is a part of the nation's
used for business and commercial purposes and therefore recreation a very small part but would suffer along
generate income for their owners and operators." with everyone else.
David will also testify before the Senate Committee We are not saying, of course, that fuel conservation
on Commerce when ADAP is up for discussion there. He should be ignored, but, rather, that we think Rep. Ull-
was most cordially received by the House Committee man's tax schedule is too extreme. It makes little sense
members and was asked a number of questions that to conserve energy on one hand while in doing so creating
showed interest in and knowledge of EAA and sport further economic chaos in other areas. A more moderate
aviation activities. One of the questions concerned path to achieving conservation of gasoline is necessary
contributions to aviation made by the hombuilding one that treats all users equitably and threatens the very
movement. David cited the Wittman landing gears, the existence of none.
conversion of automobile engines for aircraft use and Recreation may be a luxury . . . but it is one the U.S.
Burt Rutan's work in developing a stall/spin-proof economy can no longer afford to do without.
airplane. As usual, get out those pens and write your Senators
Action on ADAP is expected before the June 30 and Congressmen asking that they oppose the provisions
deadline. of H.R. 5005 that would tax motorized recreation out
On another front, Representative Al U l l m a n of of existence. The addresses are:
Oregon, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Com- For Senators: Honorable (Senator's Name)
mittee, has introduced a bill entitled the "Energy Senate Office Building
Conservation and Conversion Act of 1975 (H.R. 5005)." Washington, D.C. 20510
This is a far-ranging energy conservation plan for the For Representatives: Honorable (Rep.'s Name)
nation that, among other things, would attempt to restrict House Office Building
the use of gasoline by all non-commercial users in Washington, D.C. 20515
automobiles, boats, snowmobiles and airplanes. Any And while you are at it, talk to your neighbors and
other use of gasoline obtained at a gasoline station (for friends who operate boats, snowmobiles, motorcycles, etc.
motorcycles, lawn mowers, garden tractors, chain saws, this will effect them every bit as much as it will us.
etc.) would come under the rules imposed on "auto- Ten to one they have never heard of H.R. 5005.
motive" fuel use.
U l l m a n proposes an energy tax according to the
following schedule: MEDICAL COVERAGE PLANNED FOR FLY-IN
From 1-1-76 through 3-31-77 7c per gallon Dr. Marion Wagnon, EAA 816, is requesting his fellow
From 4-1-77 through 3-31-78 15c per gallon physicians attending the 1975 EAA Fly-In at Oshkosh,
From 4-1-78 through 3-31-79 22c per gallon Wis. to register with him for emergency service on any
From 4-1-79 through 3-31-80 30c per gallon of the days July 29 through August 4.
After 3-31-80 37c per gallon A schedule will be prepared to afford the doctor
Further, a 20^ tax on new general aviation aircraft as much freedom as possible, probably being on call
and accessories is included in the bill. only a half day during the entire Fly-In. He will be pro-
EAA Headquarters believes that this bill, while a well- vided with a telephone pager and a golf cart to provide
meant attempt to conserve our nation's energy resources, mobility.
8 MAY 1975
It is not the intention to provide a "free clinic" but
rather emergency care for the thousands of members
and guests attending.
Doctors available for this service should contact
Dr. M. C. Wagnon, 4335 SE 15, Del City, Oklahoma
73115. Complete details will be sent.
CHANGE OF ADDRESS
When you move to a new residence, please write EAA
as soon as you know your new mailing address so as to
avoid missing an issue of SPORT AVIATION. Keep in
mind that SPORT AVIATION is NOT forwardable. (Photo by Molt Taylor)
When you notify EAA of your change of address, Molt Taylor's Limbach VW powered Mini-IMF.
please include your EAA number as this will greatly
speed up the processing of your records. Some members
seem to have the impression that if they notify their
local post office of their change of address, the post
office, in turn, somehow contacts all mailers. It doesn't
work that way . . . honest! You must write each and
every person, magazine, company, etc. you correspond
with or have subscriptions with INDIVIDUALLY in-
forming them of your change of address.
The First TION featuring Gogi Gogillot's scale SE-5A, I knew what
my next and sixth homebuilt project would be an SE-5A
in four-fifths scale and realistic enough to tickle anyone's
fancy especially mine. I've long been a World War I nut.
Off went $50.00 (now $60.00) for a set of Gogillot's
Plans Built plans and I might mention that it is the best set of draw-
ings I've seen yet. They are very clear, very precise and
very easy to read. I started building the day after I re-
ceived the plans and one and one half years later was
Scale SE-5A ready (oh, yeah?) to fly. We wheeled her out to the
airport and then the problems started. Final engine
installation was the big problem along with brakes,
crossed magneto wires and rigging the wings. So many
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a heavier axle on than the plans called for. Gus told me grill. We tightened up and improved the baffling
that he had pulled the power off after the airplane was around the engine cut holes in the side of the cowling
going down the runway with the engine sputtering and but we didn't cure the problem until we had a 6" deep
giving no signs of going to lift off. His natural reaction louver to the lower bottom of the cowl to provide a
was to pull the stick back from the full forward position greater area of exit for the air.
he was holding, for the roll-out, and as soon as he did Gus ran it through a series of stalls (and scared me to
this, the airplane suddenly took to the air. At this point, death when I saw him doing what I thought were very
he was about out of airspeed and out of horsepower and steep wingovers in the airplane) and generally proved
there was not enough elevator action to get the nose that the airplane had no unusual characteristics at all.
down quickly which is why she just dropped in. We set He did not try to spin it with the rearward CG condition
about putting on a fuel pump and readjusting the hori- but reported that with the new horizontal stabilizer
zontal stabilizers. We put V4" of spacers to lift the leading position, there was adequate control at the stall to get
edge of the horizontal stabilizer and dropped the trailing the nose down immediately. We then began with some
edge Vs". We hooked up the fuel pump and were ready other pilots, to start to put time on it because we wanted
to run more tests. Bill Stewart wanted to be there for the to go to Oshkosh.
real flight and we were embarrassed to find that we All 50 hours were run-off in two weeks with the
couldn't get the fuel pump working properly. Bill agreed help of Roger Westerberg, Julie Steichen, Glenn Gouse-
that as long as he could see the airplane fly a few feet in man and Len Couder. I was sick that I was not able to fly
the air satisfactorily and under control down the runway, it myself but I feel very fortunate to have such good
he would give us permission to continue the work we had friends who are willing to help me get this airplane to
to do and to fly it over the weekend. This we were able Oshkosh. It was Saturday night at the beginning of the
to do with no incidents and we got the papers signed for Convention at 6:00 p.m. when Bill Stewart of the Minne-
testing. apolis GADO office came in on his day off to give a final
With the fuel pump operating properly, Gus set out to check and to issue an airworthiness certificate. At last,
run a couple of circles around the field and then fly it we were able to fly to Oshkosh on Sunday morning to
about 10 miles away to another airport at Lake Elmo show off my pretty Irish airplane.
where I had a hangar. When he lifted off, he seemed to My particular thanks to Roger Westerberg, who took
climb into the air and start his left turn and just kept over the testing after Gus and made a series of perfor-
hanging in there with the left wing down. We noticed mance charts and helped in the final rigging of the
the airplane wasn't climbing and was flying in an airplane. He further flew it to Oshkosh and back so that
unusual manner. After he finally straightened out and it could be seen by the troops at the Convention. I also
started to climb a little further up in the traffic pattern, want to thank Julie Steichen for her stint. She had to
we noticed that the rest of the turns were very flat and take a bus clear across town and then walk for a couple
Gus came in immediately to land and taxi right back to of miles to get to the airport and without her, we never
the hangar. It seemed that after he got in the air and would have made it to Oshkosh.
started to make his turns, he required both his hands to PERFORMANCE: This airplane lifts off at about 35
pick up the left wing. He had down aileron on the left mph and climbs out at about 60 mph indicated. The climb
side and the wing was still not coming up until he got is about 350 feet per minute and the cruise is in the
his second arm into it. He was also somewhat bothered neighborhood of 80 mph. It has no bad habits whatsoever,
by the little wind screen up front of him flattening down I mean, none. This is the concensus of all of us who
in the breeze leaving his head and face exposed. At have flown it. Everyone says she flies like a J-3 Cub
another time this might have been more annoying than except the rate of descent is very high. Power is required
on this particular flight. As it was, it probably helped keep on approach and then just gently bleed off the power
him cool. as she settles. The stall speed is low and apparently it
When Gus got out, the first thing he did was walk settles so fast because the drag is so great. To main-
about 30 feet to the front of the airplane and look back. tain proper gliding speed, you have to keep a pretty
From that distance, we could see what none of us had good nose down altitude.
thought to look for. As Gus said, "When we built model Someday I'm going to learn to fly but right now I'll
airplanes, the first thing we did was to hold it out at build another airplane maybe another SE-5 with an
arm's length and take a look at the wings and tail sur- Olds F-85 and when that one is ready to fly, I'm going to
faces to see if they lined up square and properly and if try to con Gus into testing it and when he says it's okay,
they had a semblance of good rigging." From 30 feet I'm going to fly the next one!
away, we could see that the trailing edge of the right
upper wing was considerably lower than the trailing
edge of the left wing. The lower wing seemed to be
pretty much in line. A measurement of the gap indicated
that the trailing edges of the left wings were %" more
than the gap at the trailing edge of the right wings. This
was evidently a part of his problem. Another part that
Gus felt was contributing was that the ailerons had no
gap covers and were losing a lot of effectiveness, so it
was back to the tool box to re-rig the airplane and put
the cloth gap covers on.
With proper rigging, the airplane flew nicely around
the pattern at Fleming Airport and Gus took off for
Lake Elmo. I followed as fast as I could in the pickup
truck. When I got there, Gus informed me that another
condition that we were worried about was proving to be
true. The engine was overheating and we were going to
have to improve the baffling. We began the process of
elimination, and first blanked off all the air under the (Photo Courtesy Author)
engine from going into the accessory section from the Builder Jack Mickey gives test pilot Gus Limbach a prop.
14 MAY 1975
(Photo Courtesy of Bell Tel Co.. Bob Frett)
A little "Cheesecake" for the Bell Telephone Co. magazine
photographer and reporter. At the time we rechecked our
THE IMPOSSIBLE fittings and extended the center-section leading edge to
a slight point to pick up the line from the wing leading
DREAM edges. Ed Rafacz is framed in the wing tips.
Bill Adams I EAA 51011) thinking in terms of buying materials in bulk quantities
16746 S. Euans for a better price, they wanted to hold a meeting to
South Holland, III. 60473 formalize the project. A notice was placed in Chapter 15's
Newsletter that anyone interested in this project would
meet in the Chapter's Library immediately after the March
\y SHKOSH 1972 "Say, Dick, that's a sharp looking 1973 meeting with starter money in hand.
airplane comin' in, what is it?" Twelve disciples showed up and the Dream began to
"Looks like Stolp's new V-STAR, John. Shore is purty." look more like a nightmare. The twelve disciples became
"After looking this over, Dick, I like it more and more. the V-STAR BUILDERS with Lloyd Turner as the Trea-
I think I'll build one. I've gotta '65' that will fit real nice." surer. All members would be required to join the Chicago
"I'll tell you what, John, you sell me that extra '65' Area Sports Aviation Association, which is composed of
you've got and I'll build one with you!" dedicated EAA members who pay monthly dues to support
"YOU'RE ON!" and maintain the Chapter's meeting room, shop, astro-
And so began one of the most ambitious projects port and hangars. Most of the construction work would
within EAA. After that inauspicious beginning, Dick Fry take place in our own shop and final assembly in our
and John Zimmerman mentioned their plans to a few other own hangar all located at Lewis-Lockport Airport in
Chapter 15 members and before the week was out, 3 or Lockport, 111. (We also have our own coffee pot and all
4 others joined in, figuring that they could all take part in are welcome to stop in to see us and our project on any
constructing the jigs so the same could be used by all. weekend.)
Returning home from Oshkosh, Dickie-bird and Big Another meeting was held with Mark Foose of B & F
Bad John weren't too sure who was definitely going to Aircraft, Oak Lawn, 111. (who has given us immeasurable
be involved in the project and since they were now engineering advice and assistance), and $1600.00 was
SPORT AVIATION 15
spent on 4130 steel tubing. "A small step forward for
mankind, a giant leap for the V-STAR BUILDERS!"
That just about blew the bankroll and it was time for
another assessment. The hard facts of life were learned
in a hurry. Even buying in bulk, at a saving, aircraft
materials are expensive. This was May of 1973. When
the work was no sooner started, it had to be delayed as
we readied the building and area for our second annual
fly-in breakfast.
Chuck Bradford, our expert Wood-Butcher, took
charge of the jig making and eventually the basic wing
construction and the Impossible Dream began to shape
up.
In the meantime, Dick Wunderlich, President of the
Rotorcraft Chapter No. 447-3R, that also meets in our
building, had an excellent suggestion. He is the Industrial
Arts Shop Teacher at the local high school and suggested
that we take the evening welding class about to begin
and weld up our airframes in school under his expert (Photo by Bill Adams)
supervision. About 6 members complied and in a few Left to Right Ed O'Connor, Dick Fry, Lloyd Turner,
months, all 12 basic airframes, tail feathers, gears and Bill Adams and Chuck Bradford, utilizing Chapter 15's
struts, were welded, oiled and stored. meeting room for wing construction. It's WARMER than
the shop and we clean up before the second Friday of the
month.
60 80 100 80 90
Airspeed, mph Airspeed, mph
Fig. 2. Power Curves for Various Power Loadings Fig. 4. Power Curves for Various Blade Pitch Settings
Blade Twist
-8 and -12
50 60 70 80 90
Airspeed, mph
0^30 40 50 60 70 80 90 Fig. 5. Power Curves for Various Blade Twist for an
Airspeed, mph Effective Blade Pitch of Two Degrees
Fig. 3. Power Curves for Various Solidity Ratios
20 MAY 1975
Considerable performance gains can be made by Substitute the static thrust coefficient and the ap-
selecting a NACA 8-H-12 airfoil with a smooth blade propriate values into Eq. (3) to find the static thrust,
contour over a NACA 8-H-12 airfoil with a rough con-
tour as seen in Fig. 6. A smooth contour is one which is
defined as having accurate leading edge contours and H P x 33,000 x 0.9
smooth, rigid surfaces, such as used on closely toler- T_ = (3)
Nxd
anced metal rotor blades.
1.00
X X.
X
v 0.80 N
0 504.0 60
Airspeed, mph T/T
\
a X
Fig. 6. Power Curves for Different Airfoils
X
0.60
Xx
An easy hand method for calculating gyroplane per-
formance is now given. The Hamilton Standard Method ^
^> x
of Reference 1 is simplified such that the calculation of \ 1.0 2.0 3.0 4.0
propeller thrust for varying forward speed can be made.
It is assumed that a two bladed propeller with an activity Fig. 8. Variation of Thrust Ratio with
factor of 118, a thickness ratio of 0.10, a Clark Y airfoil, Airspeed
a tip speed range of 800 to 925 ft./sec., an airframe body
diameter to propeller diameter ratio of 0.65, and a blade Next, the flight thrust to static thrust ratio is found
pitch angle at 75 percent radius of less than 14 degrees from Fig. 8 and the flight thrust is calculated as the pro-
are used for all calculations. The steps necessary for duct of the thrust ratio and static thrust. The thrust
determining the thrust power available are given first. power available is calculated from Eq. (5).
P_
For a given air density ratio, p , engine speed, engine T XV
(5)
av 550
power, and propeller diameter, the propeller coefficient,
C', is calculated from, Utilizing the method described by Gessow and Myers
of Reference 2 the rotor performance is now determined
3.325 X 10 1 0 xHP in a similar manner.
'-- (2) By definition, the rotor lift coefficient is,
0
s~\ _ WT
P
For standard air at sea level, ~jT = 1.0. From Fig. 1/2 pv 2 TrR 2 (6)
0
7 determine the static thrust coefficient.
3.6
5J.2
i,
\\ Where/ 0 is the mass air density of air which for sea
level is 0.002378 slugs/cu. ft. From Eq. (1) the blade solid-
ity ratio is calculated and the lift coefficient to solidity
v\
C
2.8 ratio, L , is determined. For a given blade pitch, 0 ,
Q
and for , the rotor profile drag-lift ratio, [ - j
2.0
and tip speed ratio, fj., are found from Fig. 9. The rotor
O Q
"x ^^. " =
MR
^-~- " Effective Power Coeff., C
Fig. 7. Variation of Static Thrust Coeff. with
rTI I Effective Power Coeff. for a Two Bladed
Propeller
0 0.02 0.04 0.06 0.08 0.1 0.12 O.U 0.16 SPORT AVIATION 21
For a specific airframe configuration, S x CQ js
selected from Table 1 and the parasite drag is calculated
as,
D = 1/2 pv S x CD
(11)
60 x T A F C x v
According to Gessow and Myers the rotor induced ROC = (14)
WT
drag-lift ratio, ( I , can be assumed equal to,
\ L /j
Where the thrust available for climb is given as.
CL TAFC - T - D (15)
L/. T~ (8)
D x WT
r = (10) Engine power: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 HP at 2800 rpm
Propeller: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ft. diameter, two bladed
Rotor: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 blades
The airframe parasite drag is one of the more diffi- D i a m e t e r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 feet
cult parameters to determine. Usually wind tunnel test Chord . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 inches
data is necessary to find the drag for a specific airframe Blade pitch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 degrees
configuration. However, for the sake of preliminary cal- Airframe drag: Same as McCulIoch J-2, S x CQ = 10.1
culations, the product of projected frontal area, S, and
parasite drag coefficient, Cp, for various existing gyro-
plane airframes, from corresponding known maximum
speeds, have been calculated and recorded in Table 1.
T D , lbs SxCD
Aircraft Wt, lbs max mph HP s lbs T, lbs
Air and Space 1800 110 180 700 470 158.6 10.0
Model 18-A
Bensen B-8M 500 85 72 250 185.3 58.3 6.9
Barnett J-4B 750 100 85 375 251.3 79.3 6.8
Sportster HA -2 1100 90 130 501 350 120 11.1
McCulIoch J-2 1550 110 180 700 470 162 10.1
22 MAY 1975
Ma ximum Sp eed T_ /-
UO
^
Substituting the appropriate parameters into Eqs. 120
(1) thru (13) and utilizing Figs. 7, 8 and 9, the thrust /^ /
power available and power required are calculated for 100
X
various airspeeds as shown in Table 2 and plotted as x /
shown in Fig. 10. From Fig. 10 the maximum airspeed 80 M nimiim S; Deed
is 110 mph, the minimum airspeed is 28 mph, the speed
g-60
,X ^x
for best range is 65 mph, the speed for best endurance is
40 mph. From Eqs. (14) and (15) the rate of climb at 80
-4r
X
/""
_ i^--
^^^
^k^V Sp>ed i'or :Best Rai
V, mph
J
v ft. /sec. v/S
T
T
s T Pav C
L
^L
a
I(-}
L (-)
' O \L\ u;r
(-) D
r
D
P D
P
req.
Ht
Hale Wallace (EAA 59826), 197 Pollard Hill Rd., R.D. 1, Johnson City, N.Y. 13790 took just three years
to complete this beautiful Steen Skybolt. It is powered by a 180 hp Lycoming IO-360-B4A. Hale reports
the plane performs better than he expected and required only a small rudder tab to fly hands off.
Monocoupe car.
This was the day of the "First Annual Air Show" spon-
sored by the Randolph County Airport Commission with
"net proceeds for airport improvement". Already the
city fathers had been busy. Bulldozers had been pushing
back the scrub oak and gashing open banks of blood red
clay to lengthen the east/west strip to 2500 feet. Like
most towns across the country in the late 40s, Asheboro
was air minded. They were proud of their little dirt air-
strip at the south edge of town it would put them "into
the mainstream" of what they were certain was the dawn
of a new post-war aerial age. Today's air show would pro-
vide the cash to pay for the bulldozers and the seeding
(which never had and never would succeed) and for the
new 2,000 ft. cross runway that was planned.
Civic pride and the auspiciousness of the occasion de-
manded nothing less than the best, and that was what
the Airport Commission had contracted for an 11 act
John McCulloch getting ready to tow a disassembled show that would last almost until dark. According to the
Little Butch to Ken Hyde's shop for rebuild.
32 MAY 1975
Little Butch completely stripped for rebuild.
i
The reason for the lack of forward visibility m a Clip- Little Butch's new all wood instrument panel. That's
wing Monocoupe is the high mounting of the engine. a wobble pump just ahead of the door.
John pours in some petrol preparatory to firing up the Two very important figures m the restoration of Little
engine for the first time since overhaul. The 23 ft. one Butch, Elizabeth McCulloch, left, and Beverly Hyde,
piece wing supports itself quite well without struts. "the long suffering wives" of John McCulloch and Ken
Hyde who, according to John, "have to have a sense
of humor when they're married to some kind of airplane
In 1948 Little Butch was just a pup only seven nut!"
years old. It had been built in Orlando, Florida early in
1941 for Billy Coddington of Charlotte, North Carolina
and was test flown on February 3 by Monocoupe presi-
dent, Clare Bunch. All the 110 Specials, since Johnny
Livingston's original, were built on special order, and With the coming of the Korean War in 1950, air show
Mr. Coddington was on hand for the test flying he even activity began to taper off and, concurrently, Woody's
had the dubious distinction of being in on a forced land- business interests began to take more and more of his
ing with Butch, fortunately a successful one. In its origi- time. It all added up to a gradual decline in the use of
nal form N36Y (Ser. No. 7W96) was powered by a 145 hp Little Butch during the 50s. The 110 Special is a demand-
Warner and was Monocoupe blue with ivory trim. ing airplane as far as pilot proficiency is concerned and
During the next 3 years, N36Y went through a series Woody knew this, so rather than continuing to risk his
of owners: Guy Gully of Farrell, Pennsylvania, J. D. neck and the airplane in only occasional flights, a very
Reed of Houston, Texas and on March 16, 1944, Woody reluctant decision was made in 1960 to sell Little Butch
Edmondson. Oddly enough, the Clipwing was purchased to air show pilot Johnny Foyle.
by Woody strictly for transportation. During World War Butch apparently did not take kindly to new hands on
II he ran a Contract Pilot Training program at Lynch- the stick. Foyle promptly found himself on his back dur-
burg and with a national 35 mph speed limit, airliners ing landing roll-out and after the plane had been rebuilt,
impressed into military service, trains and busses cram- duplicated the feat on the very first test flight . . . in
med with G.I.s, travel associated with running his school front of movie cameras, no less. Shortly after the 'Coupe
was a serious problem. Fast lightplanes such as Stagger- was rolled back into the late Frank Sadler's shop at
wings and Howards had also been impressed by Uncle South Boston, Virginia, Johnny Foyle was killed when
Sam, so about all that was available were a few pre-war his Stearman collided with a T-6 during filming for a TV
hotrods declared too hot to handle for use as military show in Florida. In 1965 the remains of Little Butch
hacks . . . like Clipwing Monocoupes. Woody had owned were offered for sale by Foyle's estate and a lot of avia-
36 MAY 1975
tion buffs made their way to South Boston to see the fa- loops, 195 mph passes down the fly-by runway, the high
mous little showplane including the author. I didn't G pull ups . . . while at the same time I was seeing it
know it at the time, but I just missed the man who came all from the other side of the looking glass. THIS is the
to buy rather than look Eastern Airlines Captain John way it felt, the way the world tumbled past the windshield,
McCulloch, then of Hialeah, Florida. Pushed back in the the way it sounded from inside the cabin of Little Butch
corner of a hangar, Little Butch was a sick looking bird that warm Sunday in 1948.
a poignant contrast to the proud world's champion of That was the most exciting airplane ride I had ever
my 1948 vintage memories. But John could see beyond had . . . it is the most exciting airplane ride I will ever
the dust and damage . . . on June 18, 1965 the prize was have. On that September morning yes, it was a Sunday
his. morning I had about 350 hours of flying time and I had
John had Carl Poston (the man who in 1950 had never flown in an aircraft with this kind of performance.
snatched the last factory built 110 Special 1N16EI from In short, I was at the most impressionable point of my
the hands of the local sheriff come to padlock the doors flying career. I have been in N36Y several times since
of a bankrupted Monocoupe company) retrieve Little and I have been fortunate to have flown and ridden in a
Butch's bones and trailer them to Florida. Over the fall great number of airplanes since, including a P-51, but
and winter the plane was completely rebuilt, largely by nothing else has and, I know, never will surpass the thrill
Monocoupe specialist C. V. Stewart. On March 8, 1966 of that September 25, 1966 ride. I am simply grateful to
John test flew N36Y, beginning a love affair that endures John directly and Woody indirectly for making this mo-
undiminished to this day. ment of my life what it was . . . and is ... to me.
In the early 1950s John McCulloch was in Korea fu- Throughout the late 60s and early 70s John flew Butch
tilely chasing MIGs with an F-84 while Woody Edmond- to fly-ins all over the eastern half of the U. S. from his
son was still thrilling the air show crowds with Little home airport in Manassas, Virginia he had been trans-
Butch back home in John's native North Carolina (Thom- ferred from Miami to Washington, D. C. by Eastern short-
asville). After mustering out of the Air Force and sign- ly after my Gastonia ride in 1966. He became quite pro-
ing on with Eastern, John soon came under the Mono- ficient in aerobatics with the little dude and occasionally
coupe spell. Something had compelled him to purchase flew an air show. When the Flying Circus began its opera-
the late Rusty Heard's D-145 (N86570, Serial Number tion at Bealeton, Virginia John flew a show there now
D-122). The appreciation he developed for this demand- and then when his duties as a DC-9 captain allowed. Lit-
ing little 'Coupe was, of course, what eventually prompted tle Butch has not seen a hard life in recent years by any
him to acquire Little Butch . . . the ultimate Monocoupe. means, but aerobatics and the simple accumulation of
That summer John started showing Little Butch on hours take their toll on any airframe. A couple of years
the fly-in circuit and, fortunately for me, decided to bring ago John decided it was high time he had a look at Butch's
it to Gastonia, N. C. for the fall fly-in of the Carolinas- innards . . . and it was a good thing he did.
Virginia Antique Airplane Foundation (now EAA Chap- Little Butch is very special to John McCulloch. He is
ter 395). After I had taken my 346th slide of the 'Coupe acutely aware that he possesses a unique historical arti-
and related my story of Woody and Butch at Asheboro fact that, in a larger sense, belongs to all of us. Thus,
in '48 for the 23rd time, John finally realized I was never when the decision was made to again rebuild the ship,
going to go away, so he gave in and told me to get in the he wanted the work done by someone who was not only a
right seat and hold the brakes while he propped the highly skilled craftsman, but, just as important, a kindred
Warner. spirit, someone who would share his feelings for the air-
From the moment I reached out and pulled the funny plane. He didn't have to look far.
little pentagonal door open and squirmed into the cabin, Ken Hyde of Warrenton, Virginia is an American
I found myself slipping into a near schizophrenic experi- Airlines Captain . . . and the owner and operator of Vir-
ence. For the next 30 minutes, every maneuver, every ginia Aviation Company. He has restored a number of
sensation I experienced, I experienced twice . . . simul- antique airplanes over the years his tongue-in-cheek
taneously. The real thing and its mirror image of 18 named Aeronca C-3, "Speedy", portions of a 1922 Farman
years before. I was sitting there with my backside strap- Sport, a Stearman, and, most recently, has been hard at
ped to Little Butch loving every second of John's rolls, work on two Curtiss Jennies, just to name a few of interest
How's this for close! John tucks Little Butch right into Little Butch and owner John McCulloch back in their
the cameraman's lap. element after the airplane's latest restoration.
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to antiquers. All have been beautiful pieces of work. Some- John moved to the Washington area, he made it a point to
how, John convinced Ken he should squeeze Little Butch look Pop up, and the two 3 counting Little Butch
in ahead of the Jennies. struck up a friendship. After discovering the spar cracks
As soon as the 23 foot, one piece wing was removed and coming to the realization that the time that was going
and examined, the project took a completely new direc- to be necessary to restore the airplane was now roughly
tion. Both the main and rear spars were cracked! After doubled, the decision was made to farm out the wing. Pop
the little cold shiver that was racing up and down his Hatcher was the only logical choice. That way Ken could
spine subsided, John was able to reason that his most re- concentrate on the rest of the airframe and, if all went
cent aerobatic flights were not really as near the brink well, the various components would be ready for cover
of disaster as one might initially imagine. The cracks about the same time.
were in the center of the wing near the points at which it The pictures accompanying the article tell better
attaches to the upper fuselage. This wing is so inherently than words the extent of the work that went into this
rigid that it is close akin to being a full cantilever unit. most recent restoration of Little Butch. The airframe
The addition of heavy struts makes it bridge-like in was completely stripped down to the last nut and bolt, a
strength. In fact, a couple of Clipwings have been rolled new wing was built and the engine was majored. Peeling
up in balls with the outer portions of the wing smashed away the fabric and paint during the teardown was a sort
to splinters and in each instance the wing or what was of leafing back through the pages of history. The fuselage
left of it did not separate from the fuselage. In all tubing bore mute evidence in the form of numerous
likelihood the airplane could have been flown for years splices of past damage. The entire tail section appar-
without incident, so overbuilt is it ... but that was aca- ently has been off more than once. Interestingly, one
demic now. The airframe was disassembled, so the only landing gear leg was longer and bent at a different angle
thing to do was build a new wing. than the other. The cowling was a complete mess, a body
Back in the days when Woody owned N36Y, it had been putty salesman's paradise.
maintained by F. E. "Pop" Hatcher of Lynchburg. When All these discrepancies were corrected and as the bird
O
3 By Val Wright (EAA 81831)
516 Wnghtwood Terrace
Libertyville, Illinois 60048
40 MAY 1975
WAG-AERO CUBY . . .
THE REBIRTH OF A LEGEND
By Jack Cox
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(Photo by Jack Cox)
Dick Wagner and his CUBy.
-L HE NAME OF only one American lightplane has
ever become a part of the language, a generic noun. Ask
your non-aviation minded neighbor to name a small air-
plane and odds are heavy he will respond with the name
of an airplane that went out of production almost 30 years
ago . . . Piper Cub. Or, just plain Cub.
Since that day in late 1930 when pilot George Kirken-
dall (EAA 35582) nursed the first Cub off the ground,
nearly 22,000 variants have been built. And although the
last of the low powered line was discontinued in 1947,
approximately 3,900 Cubs (E-2 through J-3) remain on
FAA's books today . . . apparently not nearly enough to
go around for those who want to own one. Any devoted
reader of Trade-A-Plane can tell you that the price of
Cubs has risen dramatically in the past four or five years.
In a recent issue the Cubs listed had an average asking
price of $4281, and one was being offered for a cool six
and a half grand! All this for an airplane that sold new
for $2195 (faO in 1946.
Why the Cub? Why is this modest performing little
(Raettig Photo Service) puddle jumper enjoying such an amazing revival in the
One of the identification features of a CUBy a trim 1970s? Perhaps we can lay the phenomenon at the feet
tab to replace the J-3's jack screw trim system. of the nostalgia fad that has had the U. S. locked in its
grip for half a decade now. Perhaps we can point to the
energy crunch and the realization that it is not going to
go away and the consequent decision on the part of
many that recreation must hereafter be taken close to
home in something that is inexpensive to operate. It
could be that many are now looking at the once humble
Cub as a significant and therefore valuable artifact of
aviation history the airplane that has probably trained
more people to fly than any other, the airplane that went
off to war as the L-4 and distinguished itself in combat
zones around the globe, the airplane that more than any
other has made the general public aware and once ap-
preciative of little, privately owned planes. For others
the Cub is undoubtedly a personal means of escape, of
rebellion from an increasingly impersonal, mechanized,
computerized, ATCed, TCAed world . . . a retrogression
to happier, simpler days. There may even be a few who see
the Cub as a sound investment, a hedge against inflation.
(Photo by Lee Fray) And, finally, there's that bunch of Cub Lovers who simply
The basic fuselage structure of the Wag-Aero CUBy. think the little yellow bird is the most fun of anything
This is Paul Poberezny's airplane. SPORT AVIATION 41
(Color Photos by Jack Cox)
they have ever flown . . . and they just have to have one. Dick's dream has been to purchase the rights to the J-3
Whether for one or all of the above reasons, there is a from Piper and put it into production again on a limited
market for Cubs today. The used Cub business has been basis. He has not been alone in this and, apparently,
brisk since the late 40's and several aviation supply Piper has been unmercifully harassed down through the
houses have made their mark by specializing in Cub parts, years by persons wanting the J-3 for their very own. Some,
most notably Wag-Aero, Inc. of Lyons, Wisconsin, a tiny of course, have been outright crackpots and this com-
village almost in sight of the famed Playboy Club at near- bined with Piper's fear that somehow their good name
by Lake Geneva. Wag-Aero is Dick Wagner (EAA 25491), might become sullied, has caused them to turn down
a North Central Airlines Captain who has parlayed a sin- everyone, crackpot and serious contender alike.
gle mail order product wing spar inspection hole covers Dick Wagner has persisted, however, and now has
for Luscombes into one of the largest and most success- taken a different tack. A biplane buff he owns a Waco
ful after-market aviation product manufacturing and UPF-7 Dick was impressed with EAA's Acro Sport and
supply firms in the world. Early in the growth of Wag- became one of the first supply houses to make a ma-
Aero, a line of Cub parts was developed fuel tanks, terials kit available for it. This experience crystalized
exhaust systems and mufflers, cowling assemblies, land- his thoughts regarding the realization of his Cub dreams
ing gears, stabilizer jack screw assemblies, boot cowls, in- . . . if he couldn't get the rights to the ATCed Piper J-3
strument panels, hub caps, wing spars, lift struts, upper Cub, he would come up with a kit for a nearly identical
and lower doors, complete tail assemblies, wing tanks, airplane and sell it to homebuilders.
leading edge skins, throttle and cabin heat control cables, Before proceeding into such a venture, Dick had his
wing compression tube members, windshields, instru- attorneys thoroughly check out the legal ramifications.
ments with the Cub emblem imprinted on their faces, They concluded that as long as the kits were not purport-
floor boards, fairings, wing tip bows, engine mounts, re- ed to be genuine Piper J-3 Cubs and were not named Piper
placement wing ribs, and scores of smaller goodies . . . J-3 Cubs, then there should not be a problem. He also
in other words, everything one would need to assemble contacted Piper and completely filled them in on his in-
a J-3 except a basic fuselage frame. Dick wanted to sup- tentions and has kept them informed as the project
ply that, also. has developed.
From the beginning, Dick realized certain changes
A long time J-3 fancier and owner of quite a number would have to be made in his homebuilt design from that
of them, along with Vagabonds, J-5s and even an Aztec, of Piper's J-3 to make the task of the homebuilder easier
42 MAY 1975
or even possible. The wing was the biggest nut to
crack. Pre-war Cubs had wood spars and the post war
editions had metal spars obviously, reverting to the
pre-war spruce spars would be better for homebuilders.
Ribs on pre- and post-war Cub wings were riveted alumi-
num affairs that would be difficult for the basement
craftsman, so a built-up wood rib was designed, lofted
to assume the fat profile of the USA 35B airfoil that all
Piper products used until the Comanche came along. The
Wag-Aero ribs are constructed of V-t" x V4" cap strip ma-
terial and the usual ply gussets.
The front and rear spars were made V6" deeper than
Piper originals and the leading edge material .020 2024
T-3, which is a little more substantial than the easily
dented J-3 leading edges. The Wag-Aero wing, as it
evolved, is actually a sort of combination of the pre-
and post-war versions, taking the best features of each.
The post-war metal spar wing's Friese-type ailerons are
used along with the pre-war wood spars, for instance.
The rest of the wing compression tubes, ash wing
tip bows, drag and anti-drag tie rods, and fittings are (Raettig Photo Service)
interchangeable with those in Piper wings. 13'/2 gallon Although the prototype CUBy has a trim tab system,
wing tanks are available for either panel. the fuselage structure for installation of a Piper J-3
The Wag-Aero fuselage is dimensionally identical to jack screw trim system is in place.
a Piper J-3 . . . only the wall thickness of a few tubes at
the front of the fuselage are greater so as to accommo-
date engines up to the 125 Lycoming. A major improve-
ment is the fact that the entire frame is welded up with
4130 tubular steel rather than 1025 as in the Pipers.
Another improvement is the left side window which
swings out just as does the top portion of the door on the
right side of the cockpit. This will be a welcomed fea-
ture to old Cub pilots who remember that the first time
one slid the old windows up and down, they became
scratched permanently.
The tail surfaces of the Wag-Aero plane are actually
the replacement parts for J-3's that Aero Fabricators,
another Wagner company, has been building for a num-
ber of years . . . with one exception. The Piper J-3 used a
trim system which incorporated a jack screw that raised
and lowered the leading edge of the horizontal stabilizer.
The jack screw was actuated by a continuous loop cable
between it and a small crank in the cabin. It was a source
of trouble the jack screw had to be kept clean and well
lubricated and when the cable became stretched through (Raettig Photo Service)
continuous use, would slip rendering the trim system use- Randy Gustafson, left, sets the stick control in place
less. Also, pilots and line personnel could never resist the on N3WA, the prototype CUBy, while Don Oberhart
temptation to hoist the tail of the airplane by lifting on works on Serial Number 2. That's an EAA Acro Sport
the stabilizer . . . thus putting the weight of the entire fuselage on the sawhorses.
tail section on the jack screw. A definite no-no. The Wag-
Aero airplane has a trim tab on the trailing edge of the
left elevator. For those who still want the old jack screw
system, all the attachment brackets will be included in
the plans.
The rest of the airplane is made up of new Aero Fabri-
cators J-3 replacement parts and components.
Late last year the decision was made to go ahead with
the project and jigs were immediately started. By that
time a name had also been decided upon . . . the Wag-
Aero CUBy Sport Trainer (say "cubbie"). In 56 working
days the Wag-Aero crew whipped out the CUBy struc-
ture, covered it with the Stits process from Poly-Fiber
to Aero-Thane and installed a freshly majored Conti-
nental C-85. As the color pictures accompanying the ar-
ticle clearly illustrate, the final paint job is ... shall we
say, unconventional? Dick Wagner's explanation is sim-
ple "Everyone will want to take two pictures of it."
As a practical matter, he had to do something to keep
people from walking right past "just another yellow Cub", (Raettig Photo Service)
and the CUBy's court jester's suit of half yellow and half Francis Dahlman inspects the all-wood Wag-Aero CUBy
green certainly accomplishes that! Although it sounds wings. A 131/2 gallon wing tank was later installed in the
awful, the effect is startling only at first. After a while it left wing.
44 MAY 1975
begins to grow on you. A lot of people who have seen the
CUBy, including the author, like the green side with yel-
low trim. We're going to predict a lot of CUBy builders
will choose the green for their bird, and that there will
be some more half green/half yellow jobs, also. The atten-
tion that paint job will get at every stop will be too much
for some to resist.
For those of you who like to mark the occurrence of
significant events, check Wednesday, March 12, 1975 on
your date book. It was a cold, blustery, overcast day and a
good four inches of snow blanketed the Wisconsin coun-
tryside. Anticipating such a circumstance, skis were wait-
ing at the ready. After FAA inspector Joe Siemer (who
followed the project from beginning to end and went out
of his way to help keep work on schedule) handed Dick
the coveted airworthiness certificate, everything was go.
As the CUBy was being pulled out on the snow, a call
was made to the Wag-Aero office for all hands to turn out
and come up the hill to the company's private strip to
(Photo by Jack Cox) watch the object of their recent labors take to the air for
N3WA in the final stages of construction in Wag-Aero's the first time.
airport shop. With his family, employees, Paul and Audrey Pober-
ezny, who drove up just in time, a couple of EAAers from
Michigan, Wayne Fredline and Vie Hansen, who had
driven over to Lyons for parts, and the author standing
on the sideline, Dick poured on the coal and seconds later
lifted off for the first time. The name was changed and
the color certainly was different, but all of us were aware
we were witness to the rebirth of an aviation legend.
Paul and Audrey Poberezny had a special interest in
the flight of the CUBy. After Audrey heard about the
project, she secretly arranged to purchase the first kit
for Paul for Christmas. President Paul is a hard man to
keep secrets from, but Audrey really put it over on him
on this occasion. Remember when you got a model air-
plane for Christmas and dashed off to your workbench to
start work on it even before opening the rest of your pre-
sents? Well, that was Paul and his new "toy". For a time,
there was some question whether Paul would complete
his CUBy before Wag-Aero's . . . but the press of EAA busi-
ness soon began to cut into his after hours and weekends,
as usual, and progress has slowed. By the time you are
reading this, however, Paul's CUBy will be nearing com-
pletion. It will be painted black with yellow trim and will
(Photo by Jack Cox) have the registration number N23254. This paint scheme
FAA inspector Joe Siemer, left, and Dick Wagner pose and N-number will make the plane a duplicate of Paul's
with the prototype CUBy. Siemer had just presented first Piper Cub.
Dick with the experimental airworthiness certificate. As of this writing (late March), the flight restrictions
After the picture taking, the wheel pants were removed are being flown off the CUBy and Bill Blake is finishing
and skis were installed for the first test flight. up the plans. The prototype came out at an empty weight
of 695 pounds and 769 with wheel pants, the C-85, a
metal prop, 13'/2 gallon tank in the left wing and a built-
in ski rack behind the rear seat. Flight testing to date
has been uneventful, including spins. "It flies like a Cub"
has a special significance in this case and is, perhaps, the
finest compliment the plane will ever get.
The Number Three CUBy is already under construc-
tion by Wag-Aero and will outwardly resemble the Piper
PA-11, the fully cowled transition model of the Piper
Cub that eventually led to the PA-18 Super Cub. This
CUBy will be powered by a 75 hp Limbach engine, which
is distributed in North America by Wag-Aero.
Information on plans, kits, prices, etc. for the CUBy
is available from Wag-Aero, Box 181, North Road, Lyons,
Wisconsin 53148.
Upon hearing of the CUBy for the first time, one
EAAer was overheard to say, "Guess it had to happen
sooner or later, what with all the replicas being built
today". Nothing has to happen, of course, but a whole
new generation of Cub . . . er, CUBy owners will be glad
it did if they have just half the fun with their airplanes
(Raettig Photo Service) as us present and past Piper Cub owners have had.
Cabin structure details. SPORT AVIATION 45
46 MAY 1975
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I,'M NOT QUITE sure when the idea to huild a Sopwith Suddenly, out of the blue, I received a telephone call
Pup first occurred to me. Of one thing I'm sure the first from the Managing Director at Hawkers. Did I still want
stray thoughts in that direction came during 1955-56. At the Sopwith Pup drawings? A clerk at their drawing of-
that time I was re-building a Heath Parasol, a project I fice had discovered all the early Sopwith drawings during
would have given up if it hadn't been for George Hardie, a search for more modern but elusive drawings. In due
Jr. of EAA. His letters and encouragement on the Heath course some 40 pounds of drawings found their way to
project saw me through to a certain day in 1958 when I test where I was living in Dorking to be followed equally
flew the Heath Parasol at Croydon Airport. Thank you, quickly by two security men. Please, could they have the
George, for the many happy hours I flew in the Heath drawings back. The official secret act, you know it
before I had to part with it. lasts 50 years. Now that I had the drawings, I hung onto
Early research on the Sopwith Pup took me first to them. But it took the personal intervention of the Minis-
Hawker-Siddley at Kingston-upon-Thames. I contacted ter of Defense to get the drawings off the official secret
the Managing Director and asked if the original Sopwith list! Sometime later Jack Canary wrote to me from the
Pup drawings were still in existence. After some days I U.S.A. regarding the Sopwith Snipe drawings, and I had
received a letter from Hawkers stating that inquiries the pleasure of referring him to Hawkers.
revealed that all drawings of the old Sopwith Aviation Now that I had the drawings it seemed to me that I
Co. Ltd. were destroyed in the early 1920's. ought to be able to build a Pup replica in about two years.
My next line of attack in the search for drawings was I registered the aircraft with the British Air Registration
visits to the Science Museum and the Imperial War Mu- Board, and a friend in high places reserved the registra-
seum. At the Imperial War Museum I struck pay dirt when tion G-APUP for me.
I found eight drawings of the Pup fuselage, plus a general Inquiries to the Sopwith Apprentices Assn. brought
arrangement drawing, but not enough information to en- a letter with the exciting information that the Sopwith
able me to build a Pup. Aviation Co.'s chief designer, Mr. R. A. Ashfield, was still
At this stage I made up my mind to shelve the project. alive and living just outside of Kingston-upon-Thames. I
I had already written many letters to British museums wrote to Mr. Ashfield and received an invitation to visit
and various other well-informed people, in the hope that him and discuss the project. This I did, and over the next
a lead on the remains of a Pup could be obtained. All my few years Mr. Ashfield became a friend who was never too
letters had received negative replies, so that avenue busy to clear up the various problems on the Pup con-
closed up. struction. Many hours I spent listening to the early his-
48 MAY 1975
tory of the Sopwith Aviation Co. Mr. Ashfield, who per-
sonally designed such aircraft as the Pup, Camel and Tri-
plane, and who also designed all of the early Sopwith air-
craft, is still alive today at 86 years of age, I am happy to
say.
I now had drawings, material was on order, and the
Pup designer had agreed to help with problems. All I
needed was an engine. I discovered that the British Science
Museum had two Le Rhone rotary engines which had been
in storage at that time for some 40 years. Inquiries to the
museum brought a polite reply that, although they didn't
require the engines, strict regulations made it impossible
to part with one, even on loan. After a year of trying all
the methods I knew to shake loose an engine from the
museum, all to no avail, I gave up.
At this stage I came in contact with the first of sever-
al sharp types who asked for help in constructing a Pup.
With most I'm willing to give them the "benefit of the
doubt", but one in particular proved to be completely
without conscience. From Holly, Michigan came a letter
from a Mr. H. Leslie Groves stating that he had found a
Sopwith Pup hanging in a barn. Groves said he had ob-
tained the aircraft, rebuilt it and sold it to the Dutch
government for their aviation museum. (Later inquiries
made through the Dutch Military Attache indicated that
they had never bought a Sopwith Pup since the 1919's, and
in any case they did not have an actual aviation museum
at that time.) Groves wrote that he had an 80 hp Gnome
rotary which had been running about two years earlier.
If I could obtain two old type lightplane aircraft engines
he would let me have the Gnome in exchange.
Various contacts of mine spent months searching and
turned up a 30 hp Scott "Flying Squirrel" and a 20 hp
Douglas "Sprite" engine. Both engines were complete
and in good condition. Here in England at that time small
aero engines were like gold dust, and although the owners
didn't ask gold dust for them, they did cost quite a lot
of money.
I crated up both engines and shipped them off to De- Photograph of Flight Lt. E. R. Grange. D.S.C., Croix De
troit. A few weeks later I wrote to ask if the engines had Guerre. RNAS, taken in 1917 while on sick leave, having
arrived. Four letters later I hadn't received a reply. After been wounded in combat. Grange, a Canadian and still
six months, I wrote to the British Air Attache in Wash- living in Canada, was the first pilot of N-5182.
ington and told him I couldn't get a reply from Groves.
Then three weeks later Groves wrote that he had shipped
the Gnome engine. At last things were moving!
Some three months later a letter came from the cus- The Colonel suggested that we come back the next day
toms authorities at the London docks asking me to clear by then the French Air Force would rig up some sort of
an old engine and take it away. I drove straight to Lon- lighting.
don and a customs officer showed me the engine. It was The next day when I arrived at the hangar some por-
a solid ball of rust. At some time it had been in a fire and table lighting had been rigged up. What a sight met my
it was possible to push a finger through one cylinder which eyes! Everywhere there was the dust of ages and large
was completely rusted through. The customs officer stated cobwebs festooned everything. As we moved along the
that customs duties were not going to be claimed because inside of the hangar the lights lit up the remains of old
the engine was only suitable for scrap. I took the "en- aircraft and engines. At the far end of the hangar I found
gine" home, and you can imagine my feelings! I wrote to an aircraft which resembled a dark mound of bits and
Mr. Groves several times but as I could get no reply, gave pieces. On top rested an 80 hp Le Rhone with the remains
the whole thing up as a bad job. of a propeller attached! The prop had become de-laminated
Around about this time my job started to take me all but it was just possible to read "Sopwith Scout" stamped
over the world, with the exception of the Americas. Vari- on the boss.
ous friends from all the different countries I visited all I moved one of the wings which was lying on top of the
helped in the search for Sopwith Pup parts and for an en- fuselage. It fell to the ground raising clouds of dust. The
gine. A lead at last took me to a military museum in fuselage could now be seen but it was impossible to iden-
France. But it took two years to persuade the Colonel in tify the actual type. The machine gun, under-carriage and
charge to show me their very large stores. instruments were missing but from the tattered remains
Then one winter's day I was taken to a very old air- of fabric on the wings and fuselage it was most certainly
ship hangar. "This is our reserve store," said the Colonel. a British machine. After some six hours of laying out the
"It was opened about 10 years ago. In fact, I am informed parts and inspecting it was clear that this was actually a
that it has only been opened about four times since 1920. Sopwith Pup. The engine had a brass plate wired to the
The material stored here is either incomplete or badly push rods on which was stamped "N 5182". The remains
damaged." It took some time to find a key to fit a side of the fabric at the rear was cut away and the lights'showed
door. Inside it was very dark and little could be seen in the the remains of the serial number. This was Sopwith Pup
dim light that filtered through the overhead skylights. N 5182!
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Flight Lt. A. R. Little, D.S.O. and Bar, D.S.C. and Bar,
Croix De Guerre, who took over N-5182 from E. R. Grange
and shot down a number of German aircraft. He tangled
with Von Richthofen while flying N-5182.
By this time my helpers from the French Air Force land I started to sell off the replica parts. Some went to
and I were covered with dirt and grime. The Colonel sug- George Neal in Canada who built a very nice Pup him-
gested that we close the hangar and clean ourselves up. self. Most of the remainder of the replica went to a U. S.
When I was alone with him I asked him if he would let Air Force officer who diverted an Atlas aircraft from Buf-
me have the Pup. This caused him some problems. First, falo Falls, USA to Mildenhall Air Force Base near Cam-
the stores were not to be shown to visitors like me. Sec- bridge, England to collect them!
ondly, his records showed the engine as belonging to the About this time I went to live some 100 miles north
museum but the airframe belonged to the French Air of London. The Pup went with me and I left my house
Force. He said it might be possible to obtain release of the empty. At a later date when I visited my house in Hor-
engine to the British Ministry of Defense, but the Air ley I found that squatters had moved into it. They stole
Force could not release the airframe. There was a law my mail, money and anything else they could get their
against removing war material from France. hands on. It took quite a few police to move them out. If
It took two years to get the engine handed over to the any of my friends in the U.S. wonder why they received
British Ministry of Defense. To help things along, the no reply to their letters, I'm afraid the squatters had
French Air Force flew the 80 hp Le Rhone to England. them. Some three years later I moved back, towing the
On one of my visits to France the Colonel told me that dur- Pup on jury wheels all the way behind my car.
ing the late war he had been flying in England and that During the rebuilding of the Pup I had a visit from Mr.
he had been shown much kindness by the British people. Ron Shelley. He brought with him some of the original
In view of this he had discussed the Sopwith aircraft with parts and instruments from the Sopwith S.L.T.P. This
his superiors and the stores officer. It was agreed that I was the original prototype of the Pup (see photo). These
could take the Pup but only a piece at a time! Officially, parts were used to replace those missing from Pup N 5182.
the French Air Force knew nothing about the Pup or its Many people came to visit during construction, but I made
removal. It was my problem how I got the pieces out of no mention of the fact that the aircraft was original, as
France. it was difficult to work out the legal position as to its
It took several years to get all the pieces back to Eng- ownership.
land. The various airlines were of considerable help in During the rebuild it was necessary to replace much of
flying the parts back free of charge. The first two or the original wood in the longerons and wing spars. As ash
three times I went through British customs and declared to the high quality required was not commercially availa-
my baggage as "Sopwith Pup parts". I was met with frank ble, a friend of mine who was at that time Managing
disbelief, but on the remainder of the trips the customs Director of a woodwork company, decided to let me have
officers were very helpful. enough ash to make four longerons. He told me later they
As soon as I had the most of the Pup parts back in Eng- had reserved this wood for work on the Royal box at the
50 MAY 1975
Ascot race course. In the old days of Queen Elizabeth I
1 would have probably ended up as a prisoner in the Tower
of London!
Now the fuselage was well underway so I decided it
was about time to think about getting it up on its wheels.
The undercarriage legs were a special streamlined steel
tubing, as were the outline of the fin, rudder and trail-
ing edge of the wings. Once again I contacted Hawker-
Siddley Ltd. to ask if by any chance their stores had any of
the special streamlined tubing left over from the 1914/18
War. I got the expected reply, "Sorry, nothing." I then
contacted the original manufacturer of the steel. Yes, they
still had the tools and could "draw" the special stream-
lined tubes to deliver in 12 weeks. As it turned out, once
more I had a stroke of luck.
For some years each time I was in London I visited a
very large scrap yard which purchased scrap metal from
all the various aircraft manufacturers and the Royal Air
Force. It was my fond hope that by luck I might one day
find a rotary engine in the scrap yard. Before World War
2 this company used to deal in Avro 504 parts and rotary
engines. But I never came across one. Some three weeks
after my visit to Hawkers after streamlined tubing I was
in the scrap yard and noticed a lorry unloading a pile of
Rebuilt fuselage of N-5182. Note the simple bungee cord
shock system employed in the landing gear.
of the wings to the day the Pup flew, I worked some 1500
hours on the project and Mike Johns worked just as many.
He showed true devotion, working in the cold and damp,
all hours of the day and night. When the aircraft was com-
pleted, Mike made the 80 hp Le Rhone engine his respon-
sibility, and to see him swing that nine foot propeller is
quite exciting.
During ground runs of the engine it was difficult to
get full revolutions, but as the engine had been completely
rebuilt by the Royal Aircraft Establishment it was felt
that in flight the engine would give much higher revs.
At last the great day arrived! The Pup was pushed out
of the hangar. Everything was checked over at least twice,
and the test pilot was waiting. I had intended to test fly
the Pup myself. However, I had let my pilot's license ex-
pire some years before, as every spare penny I had went
towards building the Pup. Nevertheless we had the serv-
ices of one of the finest test pilots available, Neil Williams.
Neil flew the Sopwith Dove in the famous Shuttleworth
collection, and was therefore ideal to comment on the
handling of Pup N 5182. He is also an ex-Farnborough test
pilot.
A small group of well-wishers gathered on the tarmac.
Neil climbed in the cockpit. Mike swung the propeller. The
trusty Le Rhone fired, and after a few anxious moments
while Neil checked the engine revs, etc., a short taxi run
to the grass runway, a turn into the wind, the Pup's tail
came up and almost immediately the Pup was in the air.
I had expected Neil to do two or three short hops, but it
was quite clear that he wasn't wasting his time with such
rudder could not prevent a gentle swing to the right at 90". It was evident that the engine wasn't giving full revs.
There was no tendency at this speed for a wing to drop, and I suspected the original World War 1 plugs, so I contacted
the engine was caught and kept running on the bottom. K.L.G. Plugs, who invited me to visit them with the plugs
Ground assistance was again necessary in taxiing. and talk with their consultant. The outcome of the visit
Conclusions was a complete rebuild of the original plugs, and a brand
1. The airframe is thought to be representative of the new set specially designed for my 80 hp Le Rhone engine.
type as far as handling is concerned. Contrary to expectations, the new plugs still didn't clear
2. The elevator friction is considered too high, result- up the engine problem. The engine seemed to be running
ing in overcontrolling during landing. This friction was on only 7 cylinders instead of 9. Over the next few flights
also remarked upon the ground. the engine still ran rough, and then on the ground one day
3. Compared with the Shuttleworth Pup, N 5182 has I found it impossible to get more than 800 revs on the clock
a higher ground incidence and a smaller fin and rudder, instead of the 1200 normally expected. On top of this there
both of which add to the ground looping tendency dis- was a very pronounced knocking noise. This was first
played. It is certain that this machine must always be thought to be the propeller out of balance, but after check-
operated into the wind.
56 MAY 1975
N-5182 at the only British flying museum, the famous port owner, Doug Arnold ( w h o owns a Spitfire, a Har-
Shuttleworth Trust at Old Warden. The flight from Black- vard, and several Hawker Sea Furies) was given free
bush airport to Old Warden took 1'/2 hours across coun- hangarage and facilities. While at Blackbush I had a visit
try. Note the Gloucester Gladiator behind the tail of the from ex-Capt. L. Rochford, D.S.C., D.F.C., an ex-Flight
Pup. A Bristol fighter looms immedately behind N-5182. Commander of Naval 3 Squadron in 1917. He remembered
N 5182, joining the squadron in February, 1917. He put
me in touch with ex-Capt. E. R. Grange, O.S.C., who took
over N 5182 when it was a new aircraft. Capt. Grange shot
ing no fault was found. Next the engine was suspected. down a white colored seaplane while flying N 5182 (see
Then it was thought the noise was something knocking the copy of the official report I. Later he handed it over to
in the fuselage. I was almost convinced for a short time Flight Sub Lieut. R. A. Little, who started his score of Hun
that the fuselage was going to fall to pieces, but careful aircraft on N 5182, shooting down about five Germans in
examination revealed no structural defects nor broken this aircraft. Little was killed flying a Camel in 1918. By
struts. this time he was the 8th top scoring fighter pilot of the
At last Mike said the only logical thing to do was to United Kingdom, with 47 aircraft to his credit. At that
check every separate item and by a process of elimination time he was a Captain in the RAF and won two D.S.O.,
find the trouble. As luck would have it, he started at the 2 D.S.C. and the French Croix de Guerre.
magneto. I insisted it could not be the mag A.E.I, had Sopwith Pup N 5182 is now flying on a Certificate of
completely rebuilt it and the only alteration made to it Airworthiness as an original World War 1 fighter. How-
was when I changed the slip ring for another one. I pro- ever, considerable problems were encountered with the
duced the original slip ring, Mike fitted it, the knocking British civil aviation authorities. They were very help-
noise vanished, and the engine revs jumped to 1300 rpm, ful about the flying program, but demanded authenti-
the maximum revolutions for this type of engine. Neil cated proof that the aircraft was original. The C.A.A.
flew the Pup again a few days later. This time N 5182 investigations took some eight months, during which evi-
climbed away like a homesick angel. dence of the original Sopwith parts was checked as well
The Pup's flight testing program lasted several months as all my letters relating to moving the Pup from France
and was undertaken from Fairoaks Aerodrome, Chob- to England. Finally confirmation had to be obtained from
ham, Surrey. The operators of Fairoaks Airport Ltd. freely Sir Thomas Sopwith, President of Hawker-Siddley Ltd.
allowed full use of all of their facilities. The fact that the (Successors to Sopwith Aviation Co., Ltd.) that the Pup
flying tests were brought to a satisfactory conclusion is was considered by him to be original!
due to their Managing Director Alan Mann, who was never In May, 1974 N 5182 was flown at the Biggin Hill
too busy to help over the many problems that arose. Air Fair. Later in the year it was flown at the Shuttleworth
N 5182 moved away from Fairoaks to Blackbush Air- Trust Air Display in company with their Sopwith Dove,
port, some 30 miles, and due to the generosity of the air- a 1920 civil aircraft which had been altered and repainted
SPORT AVIATION 57
A historic photograph two Sopwith-built aircraft fly-
ing together for the first time in more than 50 years. In
the foreground is N-5180, a Sopwith Dove (a civil two
place version of the Pup built in the 1920s) converted in
1936 to look like a Pup and St. Cyrian's N-5182. The
insurance coverage for N-5182 for this flight only was
about $300! The Shuttleworth Trust paid the premium so
that this picture could be taken. Their Dove/Pup is only
allowed to fly for ten minutes a flight about 6 times
a year.
to look like a Sopwith Pup. This flight was historic, for all the work they did for free, and all the parts purchased
it was the first time in more than 50 years that two Sop- if all of these were added together, there wouldn't be
with originals were flown together. much change left from about 60,000 U. S. dollars. What is
It took 16 years to put N 5182 back together. Much of this historic relic worth? I don't know. All I know is that
the story would take too long to tell, and in some cases it when I started the project I was a youngster in my early
has been impossible to tell of the help given by many thirties and now I'm almost 50 years of age. Can anyone
friends who must remain nameless, but hold important tell me what 16 years of one's life is worth?
positions in foreign governments, military forces and When N 5182 finishes its flying days, a place of honor
the British aircraft industry. has been reserved for it in the Royal Air Force Museum
Meanwhile flying time of the Pup is very restricted. at Hendon, England, where it will be preserved for all
The hourly insurance costs about 180 U. S. dollars, which time. Would I do it again? I honestly don't know. There
is prohibitve. The cost of rebuilding the Pup is almost im- were many times over the 16 years that I worked on the
possible to compute, but if the thousands of miles I drove project that I wished I'd left the Pup undisturbed in the old
and flew, plus the cost of rebuilding the parts and renovat- airship hangar.
ing them, the cost to the British aircraft companies for
58 MAY 1975
The Sopwith Pup's Certificate of Registration.
SPORT AVIATION 59
From Sweden . . .
THE
Comments on Motorsailers DESIGNEE
Government Regulation, CORNER
Props, and Exhaust
Systems By Antoni (Tony) Bingelis
EAA Designee Co-Chairman
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SPORT AVIATION 61
da-- world should be able to do bet-
ter. So whydontcha make a design
competition for designing a 20 to
70 hp variable pitch wood prop?
Blades could be glass-fibre-attached I TAUGHT AMELIA TO FLY
to aluminum or steel pipe holdings
. . . movable in a steel or aluminum Neta Snook Southern
hub with a mighty 6 volt Mighty
Midget electric toy motor and some 169 pages $6.95
worn gears thrown in and juice fed Vantage Press
by isolated rings on prop or shaft. 516 West 34th Street
Try 'em out on snowmobiles first be- New York, New York 10001
fore you cross the Atlantic with one.
Only a few homebuilts in Norway
and Sweden today. The difficulty in
finding suitable workshop space,
the frustrations of obtaining the es- Who really taught Amelia Earhart to fly? Neta Snook,
sential materials, all of which must now Mrs. Southern, did. She met Amelia and her father
be imported at great expense, and on a hot December day in 1920 at Kinner airport in
the great distances between the few southern California. Amelia impressed Neta by saying,
interested builders, all combine tc "I'll come right to the point. I want to learn to fly and I
deter homebuilding activities. Nev- understand you teach students." Neta thought she would
ertheless, one of the latest projects make an excellent student. The flying and personal epi-
to be airborne again proved the point sodes with Amelia are at times humorous, at times seri-
that it can be done. This homebuilt, a ous, but Neta did teach the famous flyer and became her
Bede 4, has just done its maiden flight close friend as well.
and works good. Cost about 9,000 Neta had always been interested in things mechani-
bucks. Pretty good when you realize cal and, encouraged by her father, tinkered on cars by
a bought 4 seater Cessna or such the hour, finding which gear moved what part.
goes here abouts for around 25-30,000 County fairs meant one thing to Neta the balloon
. . . key in the door and no gas in the ascension. From the time the big gas bag was stretched
tank. on the ground, the fire built, and the balloon airborne,
that was where Neta stayed, secretly hoping that the bal-
loonist would have an attack and she could take his place.
On her grandparents' farm she lay on the sloping cel-
lar door and watched the red-tailed hawks circling the
fields, imagining she was soaring with them.
(Any of the readers who have an During her sophomore year at Iowa State College,
interest in Motorgliders and wish to Ames, she wrote the aviation school at Newport News,
compare ideas and notes on the sub- Virginia, but no females were allowed.
ject may wish to write to the Ice Early in her junior year, a Des Moines newspaper
Bear Hunter in his own liar. Bengt advertised a flying school at Davenport, Iowa. When the
Nilsson, Pack, S 900 11 UMEA 11, college year ended in June, 1917, Neta went there, parted
Sweden.) with her $400, and was taken to see the "superb flying
equipment" the other students were constructing. The
fellows accepted her immediately as she said, "I'll be glad
to help at any jobs where I'm needed, and please don't
change any of your habits on account of me. Just count
me as one of you." By July the plane was done, and on the
DESIGNEE NEWSLETTER 17th, she took her first flight and lesson.
SUBSCRIPTIONS The students had received about 100 minutes of fly-
ing time apiece when, tragically, the plane crashed. Neta
In addition to Tony Bingelis' received a refund of $200 and watched the boys leave for
monthly column, The Designee Newport News. Finally she was accepted there, arriving
Corner, EAA Headquarters pub- on October 15, 1917. World War I forced an end to flying
lishes a monthly Designee News- at Newport News, the fellows joined up, and Neta was
letter containing even more "How left behind.
To" material, a compendium of After the Armistice, Neta purchased a wrecked Ca-
the previous month's Designee in- nuck and shipped it to Ames. By the Spring of 1920, the
spections and a summary of all plane was rebuilt and finally, Neta soloed. During that
homebuilt accidents occurring summer she barnstormed flying fair exhibitions and
around the nation the previous hopping passengers. With winter approaching, she ship-
30 days. ped the plane to California where she went into the avia-
Any EAA member can subscribe tion business passenger rides, aerial advertising, and
to the Designee Newsletter for teaching flying. It was here she met Amelia, Donald
$7.00 per year. Make your check Douglas, and other aviation greats.
payable to: I TAUGHT AMELIA TO FLY is intensely personal, a
vivid and accurate tale of early flying, and not only do
EAA you read the facts, but also the feelings which went with
P. O. Box 229 them as Neta flies through her intensely active and varied
Hales Corners, Wise. 53130 aviation career.
Ann H. Pellegreno
62 MAY 1975
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MAY 3-4 OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA 4th Annual Fly-In. Only joint MAY 29-31 ORMOND BEACH, FLORIDA 1st Annual Coquina Auto
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MAY 3-4 CORONA, CALIFORNIA Southern California Regional EAA
Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapters 7, 11, 92, 96 and 494. For informa- MAY 31 - JUNE 1 CAMBRIDGE, MARYLAND Potomac Antique
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(714) 735-8639. Frank DuPont estate, WSW of Cambridge. Beautiful grass runways,
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Air Park. Free breakfast for homebuilt pilots. Maryland 20867. Telephone 301/261-5190.
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JUNE 8 CORRY. PENNSYLVANIA EAA Chapter 160 Annual Fly- JUNE 22 PLAINFIELD, ILLINOIS 2nd Annual Fly-In Flea Market.
In/Breakfast. Lawrence Airport. Spot landing contest on arrival. Sponsored by EAA Chapter 461. Clow International Airport. Contact
Contact Harry Hipwell. 266 E. Fairmount Ave., Lakewood, N. Y. Art Froehlich, (815) 436-3930 or (312) 968-7454.
14750 Rain date June 15.
JUNE 22 RIO. WISCONSIN 5th Annual Fly-ln/Drive-ln Breakfast
JUNE 13-15 DENTON, TEXAS 13th Annual Fly-In sponsored by All aircraft types welcome.
Texas Antique Airplane Association, Inc. Contact Myrna Johnson.
2516 Shady Brook Dr.. Bedford, TX 76021. (817) 283-1702. JUNE 22 MARCY. NEW YORK Fly-In Breakfast sponsored by
EAA Chapter 294 Riverside Airport Contact Charles Puliafico,
JUNE 14-15 FREDERICKSBURG. VIRGINIA 8th Annual Antique Hayes Road, Marcy, N. Y 13403.
Aircraft Fly-In Shannon Airport Awards Banquet. Contact John
B Maas. Jr.. Shannon Airport, Box 509, Fredericksburg, Va. 22401. JUNE 22 PAINESVILLE. OHIO 13th Annual EAA Fly-In. Sponsored
by EAA Chapter 118. Casement Airport. Contact Rudy Esser. 4654
JUNE 14-15 PORTERVILLE. CALIFORNIA 26th Annual Moonlight Lane Rd . Perry, Ohio 44081
Fly-In and Air Show. Static displays, aerobatics, sky diving and
flying antiques Contact PAPA. 1893 S Newcomb. Porterville Air- JUNE 27-29 FRANKLIN. VIRGINIA Annual Fly-In sponsored by Old
port. Porterville. Calif 93257. Dominion EAA Chapter 339. Contact George Hillier. 1453 West-
over Ave . Norfolk. Va 23878. (804) 623-5509.
JUNE 14-15 CRYSTAL FALLS. MICHIGAN (Upper Peninsula) 3rd
Annual Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 439. Static displays, fly- JUNE 28-29 BURLINGTON. WISCONSIN 3rd Annual Cub Fly-In.
in events. Club Work Day - 14th; Air Show - 15th. Free 25 gallons gas Sponsored by EAA Antique-Classic Division. All vintage and home-
to all homebuilts flying in. Primitive camping available Contact Jim built aircraft invited
Lyle. 141 Albatross. Sawyer AFB. Mich. 49843
JUNE 28-29 KOKOMO, INDIANA 2nd Annual Midwest Regional
JUNE 14-15 SANTA ROSA, CALIFORNIA 4th Annual Fly-In spon- Aerobatic Competition. Sponsored by IAC Chapter 1. hosted by
sored by EAA Chapter 124. Sonoma County Airport. Contact Art Kokomo Chamber of Commerce Aviation Committee. Rain date
Beer. Box 6192, Santa Rosa, Calif. 95406. June 30. Trophies for Best of Class in Antique. Classic. Homebuilt
and Warbirds. Contact J E. Davis (317) 628-7272.
JUNE 14-15 KENNEWICK. WASHINGTON Fly-In sponsored by
EAA Chapter 391 and the Tri-City Command CAP. JUNE 28-29 BLAKESBURG. IOWA 3rd Annual Unique Aircraft
Fly-In Antique Airfield. Sponsored by EAA Chapter 409 and the AAA
JUNE 14-15 WICHITA, KANSAS Fly-In for all Great Lakes owners Air Power Museum.
new, original and homebuilt sponsored by Great Lakes Air-
craft Co. Patty Field (30 mi. NE of Wichita). Contact: Great Lakes. JUNE 28-29 MONONGAHELA, PENNSYLVANIA 3rd Annual Golden
Box 11132. Wichita, KS. 67202 Triangle Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chapter 45 Rostraver Airport.
Contact Jim Griffiths (412) 881-3304 or Bill Humphrey (412) 384-6929
JUNE 14-15 COLLINGWOOD, ONTARIO. CANADA Canadian Open
Aerobatic Contest 4 Category. Contact Leo Comesotti, 66 Chip- JULY 3-6 URBANA. OHIO Annual Fly-In sponsored by EAA Chap-
wood Cres.. Willowdale. Ont, Canada M2J 3X7. (416) 491-8383. ter 421. Grimes Airport. Contact Jeffrey McClain, 572 Washington
Ave., Urbana. Ohio 43078
JUNE 15 WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK 2nd Antique-Classic and Home-
built Fly-In/Pancake Breakfast. Trophies Sponsored by EAA Chap- JULY 5 CUMBERLAND, MARYLAND Fly-In sponsored by EAA
ter 486. Whitfords Airport. Contact Dick Forger. 204 Woodspath Rd., Chapter 426. Everyone welcome Camping space available
Liverpool. N. Y. 13088.
JULY 4-6 GAINESVILLE, GEORGIA 8th Annual Cracker Fly-In.
JUNE 15 UPLAND. CALIFORNIA Aircraft Swap Meet and Pancake Sponsored by North Georgia Chapter AAA. Banquet Saturday even-
Breakfast sponsored by EAA Chapter 448. Cable Airport. Contact ing with Matty Laird as featured speaker. Contact: Bill Davis. 2202
Don Barber, 917 Alta Loma Dr.. Corona. Calif. 91720. Willivee Place. Decature. Ga 30033. (404) 636-4743.
JUNE 20-22 PAULS VALLEY. OKLAHOMA Greater Oklahoma City JULY 6 LYONS. OHIO Mini-Breakfast-Fly-ln sponsored by EAA
Antique Airplane Association Fly-In Contact Jerry Horn. 2008 Chapter 149 Newbury Field
Nail Parkway, Moore. Okla. 73160.
JULY 11-13 HOLLISTER. CALIFORNIA 5th Annual Fly-In spon-
JUNE 20-22 MOJAVE. CALIFORNIA 3rd Annual California Na- sored by EAA Chapter 62 Contests. Trophies Contact John Win-
tional Air Races. Sponsored by Professional Race Pilots Associa- ter, 407 Hiller St.. Belmont. Calif. 94002. (415) 592-2522
tion. Contact: Air Race Management Corp.. 16644 Roscoe Blvd..
Van Nuys. Calif. 91406 (213) 988-4900. JULY 12-13 KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Oregon EAA Round Robin
Annual Fly-In. Chiloquin State Airport. Hosted by EAA Chapter 411.
JUNE 21 MIDDLETON. WISCONSIN Wisconsin 99 Proficiency Contact Dale Faries, 1544 Sargent, Klamath Falls. Ore. 97601.
Air Derby. Morey Airport. P.I.C must be female. Co-pilot required
- male or female (need not be a pilot). Send $2 00 for race kit. Pat JULY 12-13 WEST CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Du Page County Airport
Weir, R. 5, Box 162. Marshfield. Wise. 54449. Air Show featuring the USAF Thunderbirds. U. S Army Golden
Knights, Bob Hoover, U. S. Army Silver Eagles, biplane race. An-
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Sponsored by EAA Chapter 16 Contact Robert E Tarrant. Box 474. 9:00 A.M., air show 1:30. Sponsored by the Greater Chicago Area
Effingham, III. 62401. Antique Airplane Association, Inc. Contact Troy Dodd. 6801 N.
Wildwood, Chicago. III. (312) RO3-7114.
JUNE 21-22 HAMILTON, ONTARIO, CANADA Air Show sponsored
by Canadian Warplane Heritage. Contact Dennis J. Bradley, Canadi- JULY 13 WASHBURN. IOWA Annual Fly-In sponsored by EAA
an Warplane Heritage, Inc.. 550 Kipling Ave.. Toronto. Ont. Canada Chapter 227 Flyer's Field. Noon Lunch, free to homebuilt and an-
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ton. D. C. 20037. Airport. Contact Harry E. Geddes. 374 Latham Rd.. Mineola. N. Y
11501.
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by EAA Chapter 132 and Mishawaka Pilot Club. Breakfast at 6:00 JULY 19-20 PORTLAND. OREGON Annual Fly-In sponsored by
A.M. EAA Chapter 105. Lenhardt Airpark, Hubbard. Ore. Contact Merv
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Demagnetization Of Aircraft Fuselage
By Ken Gersbach
1624 Lorraine Dr.
Piano, Texas 75074
Heating of 4130 chromoly tubing during the welding If you choose the latter course, cut out the ends of
process can cause enough reorientation of its molecular an old transformer until it looks like a block "H". Wind
construction to magnetize a joint. Proof of this is shown some small insulated wire around the center part of the
by moving a compass from one side of a joint to the "H". The more turns, the stronger the demagnetizing
other and noting the compass swing. This is particularly force will be. Connect one end of the wire in series with
evident along a longeron where crossmembers are weld- a light bulb or other electrical load. Plug this in and
ed. It can be serious enough to adversely affect an air- listen for the 60 cycle hum. If the device gets too hot
craft's compass or compass system, however, it is an easy the turns and load may have to be adjusted. With the
task to reduce this compass error by demagnetization of demagnetizer plugged in, bring it to the metal to be
the welded members. demagnetized and move it around the joint as closely
The designer of my Sidewinder mentioned that this as possible. Back the coil away from the joint then unplug
could be done, particularly in the cabin area near the it and check the results.
instrument panel, so I bought a cheap compass to check On my aircraft the rollover bar was particularly bad.
the necessity of it and found definite compass swings It was heated, bent, and welded on both ends. I demag-
on nearly every joint. Mike Narrin and I got into a dis- netized it and all the tubing and welded landing gear
cussion of this and tried it on his Tailwind and found mounts. I checked them periodically with the compass
the same results. Here lies proof that it isn't mandatory during the process and it was amazing how much of the
to demagnitize, for his bird has many hours of successful residual magnetism disappeared. I still get some compass
flying on it, however, Mike was so impressed he decided deflection when one is passed near the joint, but the
to demagnetize anyway to remove his compass error. definite swing is gone. This will most certainly reduce
One of the easiest ways to demagnetize the fuselage the compass error.
joints is to operate a bulk tape demagnetizer, TV Care should be taken in using the demagnetizer,
demagnetizer, or large tape head demagnetizer near however, it might ruin any electrical motors if they are
them. A "brute force" demagnetizer rather than a small nearby so remove instruments such as clocks, or
watch or tape head demagnetizer must be used if you electrical fuel pumps before starting the operation.
want to be successful. Follow the manufacturer's recom-
mendations for operation of the particular device or build
one of your own.
JULY 26-27 VANDALIA, OHIO Air Fair 75. Sponsored by EAA JULY 29 - AUGUST 4 OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN 23rd Annual EAA
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AUGUST 24 WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK Air Show and Fly-In Break-
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LETTERS . . .
(Continued from Page S)
Dear Paul:
I read the profile of you in Air Progress. I
sure wish you could understand ho* corrupt
any war is. Militarism and the military indus-
trial complex is ruining this country and, yes.
it will eventually ruin EAA. (Did you every try
to get one inch diameter tubing lately?)
At present I am working through Les Aspin
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gas saving carburetors. Kendig. Poague to name
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I really do believe. Paul, (and I say this with
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to help the sport airplane enthusiast) that you
are rubbing shoulders with a hell of a lot of
big shots of the bureaucracy who don't give a
damn about the small homebuilder and are out
to eliminate him or her
Homebuilding goes against the powers that
be because it makes one think and become an
individual. This the leaders of the masses don't
want. You can't lead thinkers into stupid wars.
I know you were a military man, well, so was
I, even saw a little action but still I am able to
see the light. Hope you do too.
If you are sincere enough to print this you
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April 11, 1975 in Haedtler Hall in the Air Museum's
complex, Franklin, Wisconsin. Saturday, April 12, 1975
Place: Haedtler Hall, EAA Headquarters, Franklin, Wisconsin
Present: Paul H. Poberezny, Ray Scholler, S. H. Schmid, Harry
Zeisloft, Robert Gyllenswan, Gus Limbach, S. J. Wittman, Ron
Scott, Van White, Tom Poberezny, Jerry Strigel
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DIRECTORS MEETING . . .
(Continued from Page 81) The meeting was called to order by President Paul H. Pobe-
Other items discussed and reviewed by the Directors were: rezny. The Secretary's and Treasurer's Reports were accepted
1975 EAA Sweepstakes, Museum acquisitions, Designee Con- as read.
ference, 1975 EAA Convention, New member campaign, The Trustees and Officers present received a briefing
Washington report. regarding the activities and financial obligations facing the
EAA Air Museum Foundation. An audit report for the year end-
ing September 30, 1974 was presented and reviewed. This was
followed by a report on the progress of Project Crossroads.
EAA AIR MUSEUM BOARD Follow-up action was discussed.
A fund raising and future development report was presented.
OF TRUSTEES MEETING This report listed a number of contacts that had been made on
behalf of the Foundation. Also presented was a program
documenting various plateaus which would be reached through
Friday, April 11, 1975 planned phases over the next eight to ten years.
The "Aviation Greats Day" planned for Thursday, July 31
Place: Haedtler Hall, EAA Air Museum, Franklin, Wisconsin at the EAA Convention was discussed. A tentative schedule
was developed and a list of attendees was reviewed.
Present: Paul H. Poberezny, Dave Jameson, Dr. Lyle McCullough, A list of Museum acquisitions from January 17 through
Tom Poberezny, James Barton, Robert H. Fergus, Buck Hilbert, April 11 was presented to each Trustee. Other items discussed
Morton Lester, John Parish, Ray Scholler, Ray Stits, Dick Stouf- were Museum admission fees, Burlington site, Designee
fer, Bill Turner, "Kelly" Viets, Harry Zeisloft conference and a 1975 Convention report.
84 MAY 1975
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Now that the EAA International Convention and Fly-In that does not have a professional staff working full time
at Oshkosh has grown to such size and importance it has on the arrangements and details. And let it be said that
frequently been compared to other air shows held in this the smooth running EAA show could never be put on
country and abroad. This comparison is valid to a certain without the scores of dedicated and hard working visiting
extent but it might be well for those of us in the aviation volunteers who cheerfully give their time not only on
industry to understand the special contribution to aviation convention days but before and after the event to prepare
that the EAA Oshkosh event demonstrates each year. the grounds and to tidy it up afterwards.
The biannual Paris Air Show in France and the The EAA show attracts for the most part people who
Farnborough Exhibition in England are the show places have an active interest or involvement in aviation. No
for air carriers and military aviation. Although the number other show comes anywhere near to matching the number
of aircraft involved are not nearly so numerous as at of people who fly in with their own aircraft. The transient
Oshkosh there is greater public attendance. The general parking area can hold approximately 3000 airplanes at one
public is invited to come and pay a substantial admission time. It was an impressive sight to see the entire area
fee to help support the show. They come as taxpayers to filled day after day. Spaces that were vacated by departing
see what their military forces are buying with their tax aircraft were soon filled by new arrivals.
money and to gaze at the airliners which someday may Many local residents of Wisconsin, Illinois and sur-
carry them as paying passengers. The crowds at Paris's rounding states drive to Oshkosh to see the EAA show.
LeBourget Airport run to 2 or 3 million as this famous The parking space for cars will be more than doubled
field is just on the outskirts of one of the largest cities in in size for 1975. But by and large Oshkosh attracts a
the world. In addition to the static displays there are greater percentage of aviation enthusiasts than any other
several fly-bys each day and international military teams large aviation show in the world. These are people who
put on exhibition and precision flying demonstrations. will buy airplanes and their accessories for personal use
Farnborough and Paris and lately the Hanover Air Show and recreation as well as occasional business use.
in West Germany are fine displays for the big airplane The people that come to Oshkosh each year are pri-
buffs. marily interested in seeing airplanes that can be used
Here at home the Reno Air Races have become the for sport and recreation purposes. There was no military
outstanding event of the year for those interested in participation at Oshkosh in 1974 and yet the number of
speed competition flying. Comparatively large crowds people broke all records. This would indicate that EAA
are drawn made up of those people who enjoy seeing does not have to have military participation to draw a
high performance aircraft competing in closed course low crowd. The civilians who flew Warbird aircraft satisfied
altitude contests. The crowd comes for entertainment most people who were interested in military aviation.
and not education. The theme of Oshkosh in 1974 was aviation education
At Reading, Pennsylvania, each June a splendid air with great emphasis placed upon the "how to" workshops
show is held for business aviation. The number of air- and talks by prominent designers and builders in aviation.
craft, the number of displays and number of participants Aviation education will also be stressed in 1975 with more
and operations are not nearly as large as at Oshkosh but workshop activity and many EAA Designees volunteering
those interested in $100,000 and up business airplanes to serve as part time instructors. In addition the camping
can see what the industry has to offer. This is a very areas will be enlarged, the number of parking spaces for
important show if you wish to see expensive aircraft and classic aircraft approximately doubled and the main exhi-
all the electronic and other accessories that make them bition building enlarged so that it will hold 167 booths
efficient tools for business. Military participation with 62 more than last year.
precision flying and aerobatic demonstrations by civilian As a special feature for 1975, Friday, August 1st, will
pilots have been part of the show for many years. They be designated as "Aviation Greats Day." Some 40
attract the non-aviation industry people who pay a sub- distinguished visitors will be honored for their contribu-
stantial fee to see high performance aircraft in action. tions to aviation history and development.
What a contrast to all these shows is the annual EAA Oshkosh in 1975 will again be the world's largest
event at Oshkosh! For one thing the management of the aviation exhibition and will attract the enthusiastic partici-
show is handled by the regular EAA staff along with a pants in sport and recreational aviation.
host of volunteers. This is the only big time aviation show
.VAV